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ISSN:1314-3700
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Cultural Cognitive Institutions-Dominant Aspect in the Process of Socialization in Multilevel Marketing Organizations

Polina Petkova

Abstract

As key social and cultural fundaments of the human society, the institutions are of great important in the sociological study. In the last decades the institutional analisys is further going as analyses of the organizations, while in the same time the institutions are considered as surrounding space or field around the organizations.

The study offers insight over the Classical/Old Institutionalism and the New Institutionalism and their fundamental characteristics and differencies, while at the end of the publication an organizational analisys of specific organizations is presented, especially the form and type of the "socializing" institutions, necessary for successful fulfillment of the employees as well as the employing organization.

The aim of the study is to present a thesis, based on the main characteristics of the three pillars for reproduction of institutions and the specifics of the multi-level marketing (MLM) organizations, that the foundation for creation and support of MLM economical organizations is actually the cultural-cognitive pillar of the institutions.

Key words: Institucionalism, Neoinstitutionalism, Organizations and Organizational Behavior, MLM Organizations

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