Paul M. Hirsch

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline the structure and operation of entrepreneurial organizations in the most speculative segments of three cultural industries: book publishing, phonograph records, and motion pictures, and propose three adaptive "coping" strategies: the deployment of "contact" men to organizational boundaries; overproduction and differential promotion of new items; and the cooptation of mass-media gatekeepers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how social movements contribute to institutional change and the creation of new industries and show that movements can help to transform extant socioeconomic practices and enable new kinds of industry development by engaging in efforts that lead to the deinstitutionalization of field frames.

TL;DR: In this article, a critical review of the generational paradigm debate among institutional theorists and challenge DiMaggio and Powell's assertion that the new should replace the old is presented, and advocate a reconciliation between these theoretical currents that would provide a more balanced approach to the action-structure duality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a more general model of this process for all umbrella constructs, defined hereas broad concepts used to encompass and account for a diverse set of phenomena.

TL;DR: The authors examines the diffusion of this once "deviant" innovation, focusing on the relationship between changing business practices and American business culture; more specifically, how the processes of the normative framing of hostile takeovers facilitated their diffusion and legitimation, helping to recreate or sustain order despite the disruptions engendered by takeovers.