Understanding Mechanics of Smooth Institutional Transformation

2018 ◽  
pp. 49-82
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Third

Institutions, similar to other human and social undertakings, emerge and evolve following different social dynamics. The third chapter aims to discover some of the mechanisms behind smooth institutional transformations and the main elements and characteristics of institutional change. The first part makes an overview of the neo-institutional schools and their considerations for institutional change. The second part defines the basic elements of institutional change, including the analysis of exogenous and endogenous processes and characteristics. The third part outlines the agency view of institutional change and proposes an analysis of theoretical concepts of institutional entrepreneurship, institutional work and proto-institutions, the types, processes, and stages of institutional transformation. Based on that, in the discussion part, there is presented a model defining how new technology can affect institutional change combining micro and macro perspective and social actors. Finally, there are analyzed the main criteria for successful transformation of the institutionalization process.

The Birth of the 'Kodak Moment': Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Adoption of New Technologies

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 1665-1687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal A. Munir ◽  
Nelson Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs

In this paper, we adopt a discourse analytic methodology to explore the role of institutional entrepreneurs in the process of institutional change that coincides with the adoption of a radically new technology. More specifically, we examine how Kodak managed to transform photography from a highly specialized activity to one that became an integral part of everyday life. Based on this case, we develop an initial typology of the strategies available to institutional entrepreneurs who wish to affect the processes of social construction that lead to change in institutional fields. The use of discourse analysis in analysing institutional change provides new insights into the processes through which institutional fields evolve as well as into how institutional entrepreneurs are able to act strategically to embody their interests in the resulting institutions.

scholarly journals Institutional entrepreneurship: collaborative change in a complex Canadian organization

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 284-314
Author(s):  
Michael Opara ◽  
Oliver Nnamdi Okafor ◽  
Akolisa Ufodike ◽  
Kenneth Kalu
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Organizational Setting ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Adoption And Implementation

PurposeThis study adopts an institutional entrepreneurship perspective in the context of public–private partnerships (P3s) to highlight the role of social actors in enacting institutional change in a complex organizational setting. By studying the actions of two prominent social actors, the authors argue that successful institutional change is the result of dynamic managerial activity supported by political clout, organizational authority and the social positioning of actors.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a field-based case study in a complex institutional and organizational setting in Alberta, Canada. The authors employed an institutional entrepreneurship perspective to identify and analyze the activities of two allied actors motivated to transform the institutional environment for public infrastructure delivery.FindingsThe empirical study suggests that the implementation of institutional change is both individualistic and collaborative. Moreover, it is grounded in everyday organizational practices and activities and involves a coalition of allies invested in enacting lasting change in organizational practice(s), even when maintaining the status quo seems advantageous.Originality/valueThe authors critique the structural explanations that dominate the literature on public–private partnership implementation, which downplays the role of agency and minimizes its interplay with institutional logics in effecting institutional change. Rather, the authors demonstrate that, given the observed impact of social actors, public–private partnership adoption and implementation can be theorized as a social phenomenon.

Production and Technical Characteristics of a New Class of Amorphous Metals

1995 ◽  
Vol 400 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.T. Malkhassian
Keyword(s):  
Amorphous Phase ◽  
Quantum Chemical ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Chemical Technology ◽  
Quantum Level ◽  
Vibrationally Excited ◽  
New Class ◽  
The Third ◽  
Hydrogen Molecules ◽  
First Time

AbstractA new technology for obtainment of amorphous single-component metals is presented.For the first time the reduction of molybdenum oxide with formation of its amorphous phase is realized in conditions of a given quantum-chemical technology by means of vibrationally excited to the third quantum level hydrogen molecules with 1.5 ± 0.2 eV energy. The evidences of formation of this nonequilibrium amorphous phase are presented along with certain physicochemical properties of the obtained amorphous molybdenum.A model is proposed for the origin of amorphous phase under the influence of nonequilibrium quantum-chemical technology.

scholarly journals Institutional Transformation of Local Innovation Systems in Farmer Community of Belu, Nusa Tenggara Timur

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Febri Wijayanti ◽  
Savitri Dyah ◽  
Rachmini Saparita ◽  
Akmadi Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Local Innovation Systems ◽  
Modern Farming

Institutional is one factor that must be considered in the process of technology transfer. The Local Innovation System (in this case SIDa-Belu) was trying to look at those problems in agriculture to empowering poor farmers in the area. This paper analyzed transformation intitution, which occurs during and after the proccess of SIDa-Belu Implementation. The methods used in this research is descriptive analysis with structure, conduct, performance (SCP) approach. Institutional change is a transformation proccess that is part of development. Therefore, the main objective of any institutional change is to internalize the potential for greater productivity which comes from improved resource utilization, and creating a new balance simultaneously. On SIDa-Belu implementation, institutional change encourage the change for farming groups. Before SIDa-Belu they did subsistent farming, and after implementation they make a new adjustment by external factors (permanent feedback proccess) into modern farming groups with market oriented.

scholarly journals A terceira margem do Rio Oiapoque: comércio e garimpo na fronteira franco-brasileira

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (32) ◽  
pp. 242
Author(s):  
Antonio Sabino da Silva Neto ◽  
Leonardo Damasceno de Sá
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
First Approximation ◽  
The Social

Este artigo discute as formas da experiência social na fronteira franco-brasileira. A partir da ideia heurística de terceira margem, pensa a fronteira como lugar de deslocamentos e tensões. Baseado em trabalho de campo etnográfco, descreve e analisa as atividades de garimpagem e comércio do ponto de vista dos atores sociais. O objetivo é realizar uma primeira aproximação do campo, discutindo fronteira como ferramenta analítica. Percebe-se como principal conclusão que as dimensões morais e simbólicas estão conectadas com as atividades propriamente socioeconômicas, que a vida social na fronteira franco-brasileira exige uma abordagem de suas múltiplas realidades.Palavras-chave: Amapá. Guiana Francesa. Fronteira franco-brasileira. Garimpo. Comércio.THE THIRD MARGIN OF THE OIAPOQUE RIVER: COMMERCE AND MINING IN THE BRAZILIAN-FRENCH BORDERAbstractThis article discusses the forms of social experience on the Franco-Brazilian frontier. From the third-margin heuristic idea, it thinks of the frontier as a place of displacements and tensions. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it describes and analyzes the activities of garment and trade from the standpoint of social actors. The objective is to make a first approximation of the field, discussing frontier as an analytical tool. It is perceived as the main conclusion that the moral and symbolic dimensions are connected with the activities properly socioeconomic, that the social life in the French--Brazilian border requires an approach of its multiple realities.Keywords: Amapá. French Guiana. French-Brazilian border. Mining. Trade.

scholarly journals Czy widzialność jest gwarancją sukcesu? Skuteczność działań marketingowych w przestrzeni miejskiej

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Michał Dobrołowicz
Keyword(s):  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The Third ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Visual Marketing ◽  
Marketing Messages

This article addresses the question of whether the visibility of specific brands in large cities always supports the economic success of the firms to which they belong. The author discusses the issue—which borders on sociology, psychology, and practical wisdom about marketing activities—in the light of four theoretical concepts. The first is George Frank’s idea of the ‘economy of attention’, wherein attention is a good, which, contrary to other economic resources, does not have a substitute and is very hard to replace with anything else. The second concerns the type of audience reached by the visual marketing messages presented in cities. The third perspective is related to the concept of the ‘culture of distraction’, whose characteristic trait is the problem that individuals have in concentrating their attention on one object for a longer period of time. The fourth plane on which answers are sought is how the issue of visibility is overlooked in marketing campaigns. The key idea for this part of the analysis is Henry Jenkins’ spreadability’. In conclusion, the author ponders the case of an ad campaign appealing to a sense other than that of sight. In this regard the author refers to the osmosociological perspective described by Marek S. Szczepański and Weronika Ślęzak-Tazbir, among others.

Institutional work and the interplay of stability and change in public budgeting reform: the case of public universities in Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzaneh Jalali Aliabadi ◽  
Muhammad Bilal Farooq ◽  
Umesh Sharma ◽  
Dessalegn Getie Mihret
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Public Budgeting ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Setting Process ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to understand the efforts of key social actors in influencing the reform of Iranian public universities budgeting system, from incremental to performance-based budgeting (PBB), the tensions that arose as competing efforts of institutional change were undertaken, and ultimately the impact of these efforts on the extent to which the Iranian government transitioned to a system of PBB in public universities.Design/methodology/approachData comprises of semi-structured interviews with managers and experts involved in the budget setting process and an analysis of budgetary policy documents, reports and archival material such as legislation. An institutional work lens is employed to interpret the findings.FindingsWhile actors advocating the change were engaged in institutional work directed at disrupting the old budgetary rules by disassociating the rules moral foundations and creating new budgetary rules (through new legislation), universities undertook subtle resistance by engaging in extended evaluation of the new proposed PBB rules thereby maintaining the old budgetary rules. The reforms undertaken to introduce PBB in Iranian universities achieved minimal success whereby incremental budgeting continued to constitute by far a larger percentage of the budget allocation formula for university budgets. This finding illustrates change and continuity in university budgetary systems resulting from institutional work of actors competing to control the basis of resource allocation under the proposed PBB system by proposing contradicting models.Practical implicationsThe findings highlight the importance of understanding the interplay of institutional work undertaken by competing social actors as they seek to advance their goals in shaping budgetary reforms in the public-sector. Such an understanding may inform policy makers who intend to introduce major reforms in public-sector budgeting approaches.Originality/valueUnlike prior studies that largely focused on how organization-level budgeting practices responded to changes in public budgeting rules (i.e. at the site of implementation of the rules), this paper highlights how strategies of change and resistance are played out at the site of setting budgetary norms.

Market legitimation in countercultural market change

2021 ◽  
pp. 147059312110560
Author(s):  
Hwanho Choi ◽  
Bernard Burnes
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Market Change ◽  
Market Experience ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Indie Music ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Market Changes

Drawing on concepts of institutional work, legitimacy, and institutional logics, we investigate why countercultural markets experience institutional change and the actions institutional work market actors perform to inform institutional logics and ensure the legitimacy of countercultural markets. Although previous research suggests market changes and disruption, little attention has been paid to markets that originate from different institutional backgrounds, changes in the market experience in relation to its legitimization, and institutional work to attain legitimacy. The case of indie music in South Korea illustrates the evolution of a cultural market from the introduction of its ethos, the crisis caused by legitimacy pressures, and the transformation of the market. Using data gathered through in-depth interviews with indie labels and music consumers in South Korea, and archival sources, our research illuminates the source of market struggle and theorizes approaches that market actors perform to overcome the struggle.

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