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'Healing the scars of history': projects, skills and field strategies in institutional entrepreneurship
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Perkmann, Markus and Spicer, Andre. (2007) 'Healing the scars of history': projects, skills and field strategies in institutional entrepreneurship. Organization Studies, Vol.28 (No.7). pp. 1101-1122. ISSN 0170-8406
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840607078116
Abstract
We explore what institutional entrepreneurs do to propagate new organizational forms. Our findings are derived from a longitudinal study of the 'Euroregion', an organizational form used by local authorities situated close to European borders for co-ordinating policies across borders. We find that the institutional entrepreneurs behind the Euroregion engaged in several types of institution-building projects, with a changing focus over time. While the initial emphasis was on interactional projects, this was followed by a focus on technical projects and finally cultural projects. The skills that the institutional entrepreneurs deployed changed accordingly. While in a first phase, predominantly political skills were used, later, analytical skills and finally cultural skills were added. Furthermore, the institutional entrepreneurs propagated the organizational form by switching their institution-building projects between different fields. We interpret these findings by outlining a process theory of institutional entrepreneurship that conceptualizes the institutional entrepreneur in light of its development as an innovating organization.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Organization Studies |
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 0170-8406 |
| Date: | July 2007 |
| Volume: | Vol.28 |
| Number: | No.7 |
| Number of Pages: | 22 |
| Page Range: | pp. 1101-1122 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1177/0170840607078116 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| Conference Paper Type: | Paper |
| Title of Event: | 66th Annual Meeting of the Academy-of-Management |
| Type of Event: | Conference |
| Location of Event: | Atlanta, GA |
| Date(s) of Event: | August 11-16, 2006 |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/31588 |
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