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Your guess seems to be confirmed by a peer reviewed paper in Sociology, *The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields* by Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell: > the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes--coercive, mimetic, and normative--leading to this outcome. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2095101