How Institutional Entrepreneurs Created Civic Newsrooms

2017 ◽  
pp. 108-128
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Entrepreneurs

scholarly journals Clusters as institutional entrepreneurs: lessons from Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgeniya Lupova-Henry ◽  
Sam Blili ◽  
Cinzia Dal Zotto
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
Barriers To Innovation ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs ◽  
Institutional Frameworks ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
Individual Cluster

AbstractIn this article, we explore whether organized clusters can act as institutional entrepreneurs to create conditions favorable to innovation in their constituent members. We view self-aware and organized clusters as “context-embedded meta-organizations” which engage in deliberate decision- and strategy-making. As such, clusters are not only shaped by their environments, as “traditional” cluster approaches suggest but can also act upon these. Their ability to act as “change agents” is crucial in countries with high institutional barriers to innovation, such as most transition economies. Focusing on Russia, we conduct two cluster case studies to analyze the strategies these adopt to alter and shape their institutional environments. We find that clusters have a dual role as institutional entrepreneurs. First, these can act collectively to shape their environments due to the power they wield. Second, they can be mechanisms empowering their constituent actors, fostering their reflexivity and creativity, and allowing them to engage in institutional entrepreneurship. Moreover, both collective and individual cluster actors adopt “bricolage” approaches to institutional entrepreneurship to compensate for the lack of resources or institutional frameworks or avoid the pressures of ineffective institutions.

MNEs as institutional entrepreneurs: A dynamic model of the co-evolutionary process

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 550-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia M. García-Cabrera ◽  
Juan J. Durán-Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs

scholarly journals Taking Lead for Sustainability: Environmental Managers as Institutional Entrepreneurs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 4022
Author(s):  
Pernilla Gluch ◽  
Stina Månsson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Critical Events ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Past

Over the past two decades, sustainability professionals have entered the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. However, little attention has been given to the actual professionalization processes of these and the leadership conducted by them when shaping the pace and direction for sustainable development. With the aim to explore how the role of sustainability professionals develops, critical events affecting everyday sustainability work practices were identified. Based on a phenomenological study with focus on eight experienced environmental managers’ life stories, and by applying the theoretical lens of institutional entrepreneurship, the study displays a professionalization process in six episodes. Different critical events both enabled and disabled environmental managers’ opportunity to engage in institutional entrepreneurship. The findings indicate how agency is closely interrelated to temporary discourses in society; they either serve to support change and create new institutional practices towards enhanced sustainability or disrupt change when agency to act is temporarily “lost”. To manage a continually changing environment, environmental managers adopt different strategies depending on the situated context and time, such as finding ambassadors and interorganizational allies, mobilizing resources, creating organizational structures, and repositioning themselves.

DISRUPTION AND SOCIAL MEDIA — ENTRANT FIRMS AS INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURS

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (03) ◽  
pp. 1440006 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOFER LAURELL ◽  
CHRISTIAN SANDSTRÖM
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Dominant Logic ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Impact

Technological change often leads to competitive turbulence in established industries. Little is known about how the introduction of social media affects incumbent and entrant firms. This paper explores the impact of social media on the fashion journalism industry. Our findings show that entrant fashion bloggers have toppled incumbent fashion journalists. Through a netnographic analysis of published blog content, we argue that entrants have become dominant by transforming the profession of fashion journalism and in doing so, they have acted as institutional entrepreneurs. We argue that entrants are less bound by established institutional practices and that their ability to redefine the dominant logic of an industry can explain why they have outperformed incumbents.

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