| Institutional elements | research problem | Institutional Factors and Strategic Response |
| Cause | Why the organization will be forced to obey the rules and expectations of the system | And the system pressure to keep the amount of expected social legitimacy, the lower the economic benefits, the greater the likelihood of resistance |
| Constituents | Who put pressure on the organization | The higher the diversity of the constituent, the lower the degree of external dependence on the source of the system, the greater the likelihood of resistance |
| Content | What rules and requirements the organization is compelled to comply with | Institutional standards or requirements with the institutional objectives of the lower degree of consistency, the greater the arbitrariness of organizational constraints, the greater the likelihood of resistance |
| Control | How the system pressure or how to put pressure | Institutional standards, the degree of mandatory law behind the requirements, the lower the degree of spontaneous spread, the greater the possibility of institutional resistance to institutional pressure |
| Context | How to apply the system pressure situation | Uncertainty in organizational context and the less interactive degree of institutional environment, the greater the likelihood of resistance. |