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Institutional pressures and isomorphic change in a high-fashion company: the case of Brioni Roman Style, 1945-89

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  • Massimo Sargiacomo

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Towards the end of 1945 a small tailoring shop named Brioni was opened in Rome to craft elegant garments for the international social elite. Although the original business idea proved successful, in the post-war period several endogenous and exogenous factors stimulated changes in managerial behaviour. The main object of this paper, which is informed by institutional sociology, is to elucidate the economic, coercive, mimetic and normative pressures that shaped key decisions of senior management in what became a high-fashion company. The most important isomorphic changes are portrayed as is the role played by two key actors in the company whose entrepreneurial activity stimulated institutionalisation processes inside the high-fashion environment. 'In memory of Nazareno Fonticoli and Gaetano Savini:two pioneers of the high-fashion world'

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  • Massimo Sargiacomo, 2008. "Institutional pressures and isomorphic change in a high-fashion company: the case of Brioni Roman Style, 1945-89," Accounting History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(2), pages 215-241.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:acbsfi:v:18:y:2008:i:2:p:215-241
    DOI: 10.1080/09585200802058818
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    1. Carnegie, Garry D. & McBride, Karen M. & Napier, Christopher J. & Parker, Lee D., 2020. "Accounting history and theorising about organisations," The British Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 52(6).
    2. Enrico Guarini & Francesca Magli & Alberto Nobolo, 2018. "Accounting for community building: the municipal amalgamation of Milan in 1873–1876," Accounting History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(1-2), pages 5-30, May.
    3. Masrani, Swapnesh & McKiernan, Peter, 2011. "Accounting as a legitimising device in voluntary price agreements: The Dundee jute industry, 1945–1960," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 22(4), pages 415-433.

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