Analysing the degree of institutionalization using fuzzy cognitive maps

Institutionalization implies conducting the whole processes of a company or organization systematically, notwithstanding the managers or employees of the institutions. This consequence could be achieved by business operations which convert the institution's mission, vision, core values, policies, and strategic aims into action plans for its people as the aim of integrating core values and strategic objectives with the institution's structure and culture. When an institutions could not manage the institutionalization process successfully, generally a long-term life cycle may not be sustained. Thus, to find useful means of evaluating and developing the institutionalization level is a big challenge that organizations must contend with. Though there are many papers about the institutionalization in the literature, many of them do not present the institutionalization tendency on a going-forward basis. In this context, institutionalization tendency of an organization is a focus of investigation to examine organization using suitable criteria. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed in which the concepts affecting institutionalization tendency of organizations are determined first. Then, the weights of the interactions among the concepts are calculated by obtaining expert opinions. Finally, the most affecting concept on the institutionalization is revealed using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) procedures. The approach also provides an insight to determine which concept(s) to be prioritized in terms of institutionalization development.