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James Westphal and Sun Hyun Park, Symbolic Management: Governance, Strategy, and Institutions

James Westphal and Sun Hyun Park, Symbolic Management: Governance, Strategy, and Institutions Administrative Science Quarterly 2022, Vol. 67(1)NP6–NP8 The Author(s) 2021 Book Review Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/00018392211044384 journals.sagepub.com/home/asq James Westphal and Sun Hyun Park. Symbolic Management: Governance, Strategy, and Institutions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $40.00, hardcover. Certain books need to be written because so much research has accumulated on a topic or perspective that we need a book to make sense of all of it. Symbolic Management is one of those books. James Westphal and his collaborators, including the book’s co-author Sun Hyun Park, have published numerous articles about how managers, executives, and boards engage in symbolic management practices at a variety of levels and with different kinds of stakeholders. This book attempts to summarize that research and puts for- ward a more general theory of firm governance. Westphal and Park offer symbolic management as a theory of how organiza- tional representatives seek to influence the perceptions of key stakeholders (and of each other), recognizing that ‘‘there is a pervasive separation between appearance and reality, or between symbol and substance’’ (p. 2). Corporate governance is often seen as a rational system for aligning the interests of an organization’s decision makers with those of its key http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Administrative Science Quarterly SAGE

James Westphal and Sun Hyun Park, Symbolic Management: Governance, Strategy, and Institutions

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Administrative Science Quarterly , Volume 67 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2022
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Administrative Science Quarterly 2022, Vol. 67(1)NP6–NP8 The Author(s) 2021 Book Review Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/00018392211044384 journals.sagepub.com/home/asq James Westphal and Sun Hyun Park. Symbolic Management: Governance, Strategy, and Institutions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $40.00, hardcover. Certain books need to be written because so much research has accumulated on a topic or perspective that we need a book to make sense of all of it. Symbolic Management is one of those books. James Westphal and his collaborators, including the book’s co-author Sun Hyun Park, have published numerous articles about how managers, executives, and boards engage in symbolic management practices at a variety of levels and with different kinds of stakeholders. This book attempts to summarize that research and puts for- ward a more general theory of firm governance. Westphal and Park offer symbolic management as a theory of how organiza- tional representatives seek to influence the perceptions of key stakeholders (and of each other), recognizing that ‘‘there is a pervasive separation between appearance and reality, or between symbol and substance’’ (p. 2). Corporate governance is often seen as a rational system for aligning the interests of an organization’s decision makers with those of its key

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