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Institutional entrepreneurship in the sponsorship of common technological standards: The case of Sun Microsystems and Java
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The institutional entrepreneurship implicit in a firm's sponsorship of its technology as a common standard is beset by several challenges as mentioned in this paper, which arise from a standard's property to enabl...Abstract:
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Institutions and Institutional Work
TL;DR: The Handbook of Organization Studies as mentioned in this paper provides a retrospective and prospective overview of organization studies, providing a synthesis of knowledge and literature from the field of organizational studies, and provides an overview of the most significant issues to affect organization studies such as leadership, diversity and globalization.
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Institutional Complexity and Organizational Responses
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on a variety of cognate literatures to discuss the field-level structural characteristics and organizational attributes that shape institutional complexity and explore the repertoire of strategies and structures that organizations deploy to cope with multiple, competing demands.
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Institutional entrepreneurship in mature fields: the big five accounting firms
Royston Greenwood,Roy Suddaby +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examines change initiated from the center of mature organizational fields and addresses the paradox of embedded agency, i.e., how actors enact changes to the co-authors of the paper.
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Institutional entrepreneurship in emerging fields: HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy in Canada
TL;DR: In a qualitative study of the emerging field of HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy in Canada, it was found that institutional entrepreneurship involved three sets of critical activities: the occupation of “subject positions” that have wide legitimacy and bridge diverse stakeholders.
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Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research
TL;DR: The Discovery of Grounded Theory as mentioned in this paper is a book about the discovery of grounded theories from data, both substantive and formal, which is a major task confronting sociologists and is understandable to both experts and laymen.
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The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research.
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
TL;DR: Douglass C. North as discussed by the authors developed an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time.
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Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance
Douglass C. North,John Alt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role that institutions, defined as the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction, play in economic performance and how those institutions change and how a model of dynamic institutions explains the differential performance of economies through time.
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Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society, is examined, and it is argued that reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong.
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