Institutional Isomorphism

When adjacent regions or organizations face similar external pressures and objectives, they voluntarily adjust their internal rules to achieve compatibility, thereby softening institutional boundaries and enabling cross-domain flow. This is not imposed from above, but rather a voluntary choice made when participants discover that the cost of maintaining differences exceeds the cost of alignment.

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