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Textual mapping of imitation and intertextuality in college and university mission statements: A new institutional perspective
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Timothy N. Atkinson
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November 10, 2008
Abstract
Using university mission statements from the 2006 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System from the U.S. Department of Education, the study generated network models of shared lexical patterns across institutional type. From the viewpoint of discursive institutionalism, this evidence, coupled with structural discourse patterns, suggested that university mission statements can operate as cultural-cognitive indicators, or ideational indicators of group solidarity, shared beliefs, and human agreement (Campbell and Pederson 2001; Meyer and Rowan 2006; Scott and Davis 2007). The implications for practice are to recognize patterns of taken-for-granted behaviors, then to ask ourselves if these static cultural-cognitive patterns serve to promote higher education ideology or work against discourse that promotes organizational change and evolution.
Published Online: 2008-11-10
Published in Print: 2008-October
© 2008 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin
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