DiMaggio and Powell, they pose the mechanisms of coercive, normative and mimetic, through which the institutional effects of an area that they call organizational field and to which they define like those organizations that, together, constitute a Recognized area of institutional life. In situations where a clear course of action is indispensable, when the technologies are poor, when the goals are ambiguous, the answer to all this is to imitate, to be successful. Isomorphism poses a very serious problem for innovation and adaptation of organizations. For individual workers is an even more complex issue, for example: Two people who sell apples every morning on the same street implies a decrease in sales of both, a decrease in the variability of products for the public and again, a lack of Originality.
The accomplishments of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were extensive. It altered the imperial struggle for the control of North America, particularity in the Pacific Northwest. It strengthened the U.S. claim to the areas now known as the states of Oregon and Washington.
