Entrepreneurs Institutional Entrepreneurship And Institutional Change Contextualizing The Changing Role Of Actors In The Institutionalization Of Temporary Work In The Netherlands From 1960 To 2008

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Entrepreneurs, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change. Contextualizing the Changing Role of Actors in the Institutionalization of Temporary Work in the Netherlands from 1960 to 2008

Author : Bas Koene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Entrepreneurs, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change. Contextualizing the Changing Role of Actors in the Institutionalization of Temporary Work in the Netherlands from 1960 to 2008 written by Bas Koene and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intersection of entrepreneurship research and institutional theory has begun to attract increasing scholarly attention. While much recent research has studied "institutional entrepreneurs" credited with creating new or transforming existing institutions to support their projects, less attention has been paid to the institutions that constitute the menus from which choices are made, and delineate resources for entrepreneurial or other agentic activities. While models of institutionalization frequently break down the process into different categorical stages, how an evolving context affords changing agentic latitude for actors merits more attention. We study the institutionalization of 'temporary work', a new employment practice led by temporary work organizations, a new organizational form in the Netherlands from the 1960s to 2008. Our account suggests an 'ecological' imagery of institutionalization; rather than entrepreneurs' with predetermined agendas shaping and reshaping institutions, we observed distributed institutional entrepreneurship - entrepreneurs seeking change in concert and in conflict with other interdependent actors simultaneously creating, disrupting and maintaining institutions. By examining how an evolving context influences the role of "actor configurations", whose actions, interactions and counteractions can collectively lead to change, but also unintended outcomes, we highlight the non-teleological nature of institutionalization. Finally, our findings suggest that while the legitimacy of a novel practice grows with increasing institutionalization, legitimacy contests may recur and that increasing institutionalization may provide the backdrop for novel practices to emerge.

Actions of Institutional Entrepreneurship in Managing the Underlying Processes in Diffusing New Interfirm Practices

Author : Raymond Lawrence Paquin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Actions of Institutional Entrepreneurship in Managing the Underlying Processes in Diffusing New Interfirm Practices written by Raymond Lawrence Paquin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This dissertation studies the detailed actions of a key institutional entrepreneur--the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme, or NISP--in facilitating the emergence and early diffusion of a novel interfirm environmental practice in the UK. The practice, industrial symbiosis, is one where production waste from one firm is converted and used as production input for another--providing economic and environmental benefits to one or both firms. As the natural environment has gained prominence in recent years, firms have had to adapt their environmental practices for both for social legitimacy and economic competitiveness. Yet, while much is known about how and why institutions are created and change, and the role of institutional entrepreneurs in these changes; we know relatively little about how they manage and support the underling processes which propel institutional change forward. Using qualitative and longitudinal social network analyses, I found that NISP engaged in three sets of action--conversation, connection, and co-creation--which differentially impacted the path of diffusion of the new practice. From this, I developed a conceptual framework around the 'actions and impacts' influencing institutional change, which influence not only whether but how the emergence and diffusion of new practices occurs. This framework extends current views of institutional change and institutional entrepreneurship by exploring those underexplored processes and mechanisms which support the processes of change over time. It also contributes to related work in strategic brokerage by showing NISP's actions as a diverse set of brokerage activities with independent yet related outcomes. This dissertation also lays the groundwork for future work to continue developing more nuanced and robust perspectives of the roles and actions of institutional entrepreneurs as they engage in the managing the underlying processes supporting institutional change.

Institutional Reform and Diaspora Entrepreneurs

Author : Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190278226
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Reform and Diaspora Entrepreneurs written by Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Externally-promoted institutional reform, even when nominally accepted by developing country governments, often fails to deliver lasting change. Diasporans-immigrants who still feel a connection to their country of origin-may offer an In-Between Advantage for institutional reform, which links problem understanding with potential solutions, and encompasses vision, impact, operational, and psycho-social advantages. Individuals with entrepreneurial characteristics can catalyzing institutional reform. Diasporans may have particular advantages for entrepreneurship, as they live both psychologically and materially between the place of origin they left and the new destination they have embraced. Their entrepreneurial characteristics may be accidental, cultivated through the migration and diaspora experience, or innate to individuals' personalities. This book articulates the diaspora institutional entrepreneur In-Between Advantage, proposes a model for understanding the characteristics and motivational influences of entrepreneurs generally and how they apply to diaspora entrepreneurs in particular, and presents a staged model of institutional entrepreneur actions. I test these frameworks through case narratives of social institutional reform in Egypt, economic institutional reform in Ethiopia, and political institutional reform in Chad. In addition to identifying policy implications, this book makes important theoretical contributions in three areas. First, it builds on existing and emerging critiques of international development assistance that articulate prescriptions related to alternative theories of change. Second, it fills an important gap in the literature by focusing squarely on the role of agency in institutional reform processes while still accounting for organizational systems and socio-political contexts. In doing so, it integrates a more expansive view of entrepreneurism into extant understandings of institutional entrepreneurism, and it sheds light on what happens in the frequently-invoked black box of agency. Third, it demonstrates the fallacy of many theoretical frameworks that seek to order institutional change processes into neatly definable linear stages.

The Academy of Management Annals

Author : James P. Walsh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 080586220X
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Academy of Management Annals written by James P. Walsh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Academy of Management is proud to announce the inaugural volume of The Academy of Management Annals. This exciting new series follows one guiding principle: The advancement of knowledge is possible only by conducting a thorough examination of what is known and unknown in a given field. Such assessments can be accomplished through comprehensive, critical reviews of the literature--crafted by informed scholars who determine when a line of inquiry has gone astray, and how to steer the research back onto the proper path. The Academy of Management Annals provide just such essential reviews. Written by leading management scholars, the reviews are invaluable for ensuring the timeliness of advanced courses, for designing new investigative approaches, and for identifying faulty methodological or conceptual assumptions. The Annals strive each year to synthesize a vast array of primary research, recognizing past principal contributions while illuminating potential future avenues of inquiry. Volume 1 of the Annals explores a wide spectrum of research: corporate control; nonstandard employment; critical management; physical work environments; public administration team learning; emotions in organizations; leadership and health care; creativity at work; business and the environment; and bias in performance appraisals. Ultimately, academic scholars in management and allied fields (e.g., sociology of organizations and organizational psychology) will see The Academy of Management Annals as a valuable resource to turn to for comprehensive, up-to-date information--published in a single volume every year by the preeminent association for management research.

Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory

Author : Ted Baker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351110616
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory written by Ted Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the breadth and empirical diversity of entrepreneurship research have increased rapidly during the last decade, the quest to find a "one-size-fits-all" general theory of entrepreneurship has given way to a growing appreciation for the importance of contexts. This promises to improve both the practical relevance and the theoretical rigor of research in this field. Entrepreneurship means different things to different people at different times and in different places and both its causes and its consequences likewise vary. For example, for some people entrepreneurship can be a glorious path to emancipation, while for others it can represent the yoke tethering them to the burdens of overwork and drudgery. For some communities it can drive renaissance and vibrancy while for others it allows only bare survival. In this book, we assess and attempt to push forward contemporary conceptualizations of contexts that matter for entrepreneurship, pointing in particular to opportunities generating new insights by attending to contexts in novel or underexplored ways. This book shows that the ongoing contextualization of entrepreneurship research should not simply generate a proliferation of unique theories – one for every context – but can instead result in better theory construction, testing and understanding of boundary conditions, thereby leading us to richer and more profound understanding of entrepreneurship across its many forms. Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory will critically review the current debate and existing literature on contexts and entrepreneurship and use this to synthesize new theoretical and methodological frameworks that point to important directions for future research.

Entrepreneurship as Institutional Change

Author : Toke Bjerregaard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Entrepreneurship as Institutional Change written by Toke Bjerregaard and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper responds to calls to make more explicit linkages between institutional theory and entrepreneurship research through studies on how entrepreneurs navigate and work with institutions. The research examines the micro-strategies and activities through which small-scale entrepreneurs maneuver between and exploit the multiple, potentially contradictory institutional logics of the different spheres in which they operate. While much research has elucidated how institutional entrepreneurs effect change, this study illustrates how effective entrepreneurs managing and exploiting institutional contradictions engage simultaneously in practices of maintaining and changing institutions to establish a balance between the poles on which their ventures depend. We illustrate this by two cases of small-scale entrepreneurship bridging institutional contradictions from an ethnographic study conducted under the ongoing efforts to implement liberal democracy in Malawi. This transition comprises attempts to build stronger pillars for democratic governance such as the development of a market economy.

Institutional Entrepreneurs Between A Rock and A Hard Place

Author : Farah Kodeih
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Entrepreneurs Between A Rock and A Hard Place written by Farah Kodeih and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study contributes to the literature on institutional entrepreneurship by exploring the phenomenon of failure - particularly, how it is construed as such and de-emphasized through face-saving efforts by institutional entrepreneurs. We draw on extant research on institutional entrepreneurship in established fields and insights from social movement literature and political theories of organizations to illustrate how a French business school tried and failed to promote a new MBA program format for students with no prior work experience. The longitudinal case study reveals several mechanisms which played a central role in increasing the project's ambiguity and ultimately forced a strategic reorientation: (1) the institutional entrepreneurs' inability to mobilize collectivities and persuade them of the credibility and appropriateness of the innovation, despite their central position in the French business education field; (2) the subsequent centralization of the audience's social structure and their counter-mobilization around an alternative institutional project; (3) the expansion of organizational membership bringing in new actors who challenged the institutional innovation thereby feeding political struggles inside the organization. We also elaborate on organizational recovery from failure by showing (1) how the conjunction of intra-organizational and field-level factors led the institutional entrepreneurs to construe their innovation as unsuccessful and compelled them to acknowledge failure; and (2) how they sought to minimize the damage of a strategic U-turn and save face in the eyes of key audiences.

Institutional Change in Japan

Author : Magnus Blomström
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113418056X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Change in Japan written by Magnus Blomström and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new analysis of recent changes in important Japanese institutions. It addresses the origin, development, and recent adaptation of core institutions, including financial institutions, corporate governance, lifetime employment, and the amakudari system. After four decades of rapid economic growth in Japan, the 1990s saw the country enter a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Policy reforms were initially half-hearted, and businesses were slow to restructure as the global economy changed. The lagging economy has been impervious to aggressive fiscal stimulus measures and has been plagued by ongoing price deflation for years. Japan’s struggle has called into question the ability of the country’s economic institutions, originally designed to support factor accumulation and rapid development, to adapt to the new economic environment of the twenty-first century. This book discusses both historical and international comparisons including Meiji Japan, and recent economic and financial reforms in Korea, Scandinavia, Switzerland, and New Zealand, placing the current institutional changes in perspective. The contributors argue that, contrary to conventional wisdom that Japanese institutions have remained relatively rigid, there has been significant institutional change over the last decade.

Institutional Work

Author : Thomas B. Lawrence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521518555
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Work written by Thomas B. Lawrence and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a series of essays and empirical case studies exploring the nature of institutional work.

Universities and Regional Engagement

Author : Tatiana Iakovleva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000573044
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Universities and Regional Engagement written by Tatiana Iakovleva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of universities’ role in regional engagement has traditionally been focusing on exceptional cases. This book presents a reconceptualization which embraces its underlying complexity and proposes a roadmap for a renewed research agenda. Starting from the grassroots level of universities’ everyday engagements, the book delves into the manifold ways in which university knowledge agents build connections with regional partners. Through 11 empirical chapters, the authors not only chart the diversity among case institutions, engagement mechanisms, and regional contexts but also use that diversity to advance a novel conceptual framework, centered on the process of mundaneness, for unpacking university-regions’ everyday activities, taking into account the dynamic, complex, and co-evolving interplay between (a) key social agents and institutions, (b) the contexts in which they are embedded, as well as (c) the historical trajectories and strategic ambitions underpinning context-specific social arrangements and interactions that are mediated by temporal and spatial dimensions. Drawing on evolutionary economic geography, innovation studies, management and organization studies, and historical perspectives, the volume advances a new mode of understanding university-regional engagement as a form of extendable temporary coupling, which also helps to address perennial policy and managerial questions alike of what to do with universities that do not serve local labour market needs and/or are located in regions suffering from brain drain. The book illustrates such dynamics from diverse national contexts and three continents: Brazil, Caribbean, China, Italy, Norway, and Poland. This book will be valuable reading for advanced students, researchers, and policymakers working in economic geography, regional development, innovation, and higher education management. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Institutional Theory and Organizational Change

Author : Staffan Furusten
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1035307219
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Theory and Organizational Change written by Staffan Furusten and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and refined, this new edition of Institutional Theory and Organizational Change considers the developments in the field of institutional organization theory over the past decade. With each chapter being significantly updated, the book explains what the institutional organization approach means by bringing special attention to how the institutional environment is made up and how organizations are governed by it.

The Transformation of Welfare States?

Author : Nick Ellison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134765703
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Welfare States? written by Nick Ellison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Globalization', institutions and welfare regimes -- The challenge of globalization -- Globalization and welfare regime change -- Towards workfare? : changing labour market policies -- Labour market policies in social democratic and continental regimes -- Population ageing, GEPs and changing pensions systems -- Pensions policies in continental and social regimes -- Conclusion : welfare regimes in a liberalizing world.

Evolution and Path Dependence in Economic Ideas

Author : Pierre Garrouste
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781950227
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Evolution and Path Dependence in Economic Ideas written by Pierre Garrouste and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s there has been a renewed interest in attempts to introduce a sense of history into economic literature. In this text, the authors argue that it is not possible to explain a state of the world without first analyzing the processes that lead to that state.

Contextual Entrepreneurship

Author : Ted Baker
Publisher : Foundations and Trends (R) in Entrepreneurship
ISBN 13 : 9781680834567
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Contextual Entrepreneurship written by Ted Baker and published by Foundations and Trends (R) in Entrepreneurship. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generates new insights about why and how we might go about contextualizing entrepreneurship research. Takes more of what we call a critical process approach to contextualizing entrepreneurship research.

Regulatory Capitalism

Author : John Braithwaite
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848441266
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Regulatory Capitalism written by John Braithwaite and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sprawling and ambitious book John Braithwaite successfully manages to link the contemporary dynamics of macro political economy to the dynamics of citizen engagement and organisational activism at the micro intestacies of governance practices. This is no mean feat and the logic works. . . Stephen Bell, The Australian Journal of Public Administration Everyone who is puzzled by modern regulocracy should read this book. Short and incisive, it represents the culmination of over twenty years work on the subject. It offers us a perceptive and wide-ranging perspective on the global development of regulatory capitalism and an important analysis of points of leverage for democrats and reformers. Christopher Hood, All Souls College, Oxford, UK It takes a great mind to produce a book that is indispensable for beginners and experts, theorists and policymakers alike. With characteristic clarity, admirable brevity, and his inimitable mix of description and prescription, John Braithwaite explains how corporations and states regulate each other in the complex global system dubbed regulatory capitalism. For Braithwaite aficionados, Regulatory Capitalism brings into focus the big picture created from years of meticulous research. For Braithwaite novices, it is a reading guide that cannot fail to inspire them to learn more. Carol A. Heimer, Northwestern University, US Reading Regulatory Capitalism is like opening your eyes. John Braithwaite brings together law, politics, and economics to give us a map and a vocabulary for the world we actually see all around us. He weaves together elements of over a decade of scholarship on the nature of the state, regulation, industrial organization, and intellectual property in an elegant, readable, and indispensable volume. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University, US Encyclopedic in scope, chock full of provocative even jarring claims, Regulatory Capitalism shows John Braithwaite at his transcendental best. Ian Ayres, Yale Law School, Yale University, US Contemporary societies have more vibrant markets than past ones. Yet they are more heavily populated by private and public regulators. This book explores the features of such a regulatory capitalism, its tendencies to be cyclically crisis-ridden, ritualistic and governed through networks. New ways of thinking about resultant policy challenges are developed. At the heart of this latest work by John Braithwaite lies the insight by David Levi-Faur and Jacint Jordana that the welfare state was succeeded in the 1970s by regulatory capitalism. The book argues that this has produced stronger markets, public regulation, private regulation and hybrid private/public regulation as well as new challenges such as a more cyclical quality to crises of market and governance failure, regulatory ritualism and markets in vice. However, regulatory capitalism also creates opportunities for better design of markets in virtue such as markets in continuous improvement, privatized enforcement of regulation, open source business models, regulatory pyramids with networked escalation and meta-governance of justice. Regulatory Capitalism will be warmly welcomed by regulatory scholars in political science, sociology, history, economics, business schools and law schools as well as regulatory bureaucrats, policy thinkers in government and law and society scholars.

Closing the Gap in a Generation

Author : WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241563702
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Closing the Gap in a Generation written by WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2008 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. We watch in wonder as life expectancy and good health continue to increase in parts of the world and in alarm as they fail to improve in others.

Organizing Matters

Author : Guy Mundlak
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839104031
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Organizing Matters written by Guy Mundlak and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizing Matters demonstrates the interplay between two distinct logics of labour’s collective action: on the one hand, workers coming together, usually at their place of work, entrusting the union to represent their interests and, on the other hand, social bargaining in which the trade union constructs labour’s interests from the top down. The book investigates the tensions and potential complementarities between the two logics through the combination of a strong theoretical framework and an extensive qualitative case study of trade union organizing and recruitment in four countries – Austria, Germany, Israel and the Netherlands. These countries still utilize social-wide bargaining but find it necessary to draw and develop strategies transposed from Anglo-American countries in response to continuously declining membership.