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Agger Nielsen, Jeppe, Mathiassen, Lars and Newell, Sue (2022) Multidirectional idea travelling across an organizational field. Organization Studies, 43 (6). pp. 931-952. doi:10.1177/0170840621998566 ISSN 0170-8406.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840621998566
Abstract
Organizational scholars are increasingly interested in understanding how ideas travel across an organizational field. While most studies focus on how travelling ideas translate into organizational practices, we lack insights into the broader issue of how ideas translate as they move among heterogeneous actors across the field. To explore this multidirectional travelling of ideas, we build on the notion of translation ecology to capture the ongoing interactions among field members as they are involved in translation work within and outside adopting organizations. To develop our argument, we draw from a longitudinal, 20-year case study of a public sector digital transformation programme in Denmark through which ideas about mobile technology use for caregivers spread across the entire homecare field. By following the mobile technology initiative over time, we show how ideas travelled in multiple directions as adopting organizations and other influential field actors participated in and contributed to diverse practices across organizations. Based on our analyses, we identify three distinct forms of multidirectional idea travelling – reinforcing, complementing and polarizing – and describe how they together shape the morphing of ideas as they move among heterogeneous actors in a translation ecology. As a result, we advance knowledge about multidirectional idea travelling as an under-theorized and important perspective in the translation literature.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Information Systems & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Organizational change , Creative ability in business , Total quality management, Organizational behavior, Creative ability in business -- Technological innovations, Digital communications | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Organization Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0170-8406 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 June 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 43 | ||||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 931-952 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0170840621998566 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Nielsen JA, Mathiassen L, Newell S. Multidirectional Idea Travelling Across an Organizational Field. Organization Copyright © 2021 by European Group for Organizational Studies Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840621998566 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 February 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 February 2021 | ||||||||
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