Overcoming Inaction through Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship: Insights from Regime Theory

Wijen, Frank; Ansari, Shahzad

doi:10.1177/0170840607078115

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“…Fields are by nature constellations of organizations that uphold standards together, negotiate or fight over change, or express conflicting interests. Yet their interests are typically rather narrow when compared to the "wicked" problems (Rittel & Webber, 1973) facing global society, such as climate change (Wijen & Ansari, 2007;Wright, Nyberg, & Grant, 2012), the global financial crisis, poverty (Mair, Marti, & Ventresca, 2012), the Zika virus or Ebola outbreak, income inequality (Lawrence, Amis, Munir, Hirsch, & McGahan, 2014), terrorism and others. These issues, and many more mundane issues such as water governance and air pollution cannot be settled within fields; they demand the ability to analyze issues involving (and across) multiple fields-they demand interfield action.…”

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Field or Fields? Building the Scaffolding for Cumulation of Research on Institutional Fields

Zietsma

Groenewegen

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The concept of an institutional field is one of the cornerstones of institutional theory, and yet the concept has been stretched both theoretically and empirically, making consolidation of findings across multiple studies more difficult. In this article, we review the literature and analyze empirical studies of institutional fields to build scaffolding for the cumulation of research on institutional fields. Our review revealed two types of fields: exchange and issue fields, with three subtypes of each. We describe their characteristics. Subsequently, we review field conditions in the extant literature and develop a typology based on two dimensions: the extent of elaboration of institutional infrastructure and the extent to which there is an agreed upon prioritization of logics. We discuss the implications of field types and conditions for isomorphism, agency, and field change, based on a review of the literature that revealed six pathways of field change and the factors affecting them. We outline a research agenda based on our review highlighting the need for consolidation of field studies and identify several outstanding issues that are in need of further research.

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Section: Additional Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Field or Fields? Building the Scaffolding for Cumulation of Research on Institutional Fields

Zietsma

Groenewegen

Logue

et al. 2017

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“…Building on the social movement literature (McAdam & Scott, 2005), actors are seen to engage in framing contests, construct cooperative and competitive networks, manipulate institutional arrangements or incentive structures, and collectively mobilize in order to effect change (Wijen and Ansari 2007; Hargrave and Van de Ven, 2006). These battles between insurgents and counter-movements of incumbents (Hensmans, 2003) disrupt existing arrangements, yet ready-made solutions may not be available, leaving much institutional work to be done.…”

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Building the iron cage: institutional creation work in the context of competing proto-institutions

Zietsma¹,

McKnight

2009

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“…Responsiveness and adaptability in the context of fisheries can be in reference to both socioeconomic and ecological stressors. Various factors affect the extent to which responsiveness and adaptability exist, including individual and collective agency (Wijen andAnsari 2007, Coulthard 2012), leadership , Gutiérrez et al 2011), and existing context (McCay 2002. Underlying all of these factors is the idea that for actors to be adaptable they must be able to mobilize information and resources at the appropriate moments.…”

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Local seafood: rethinking the direct marketing paradigm

Stoll¹,

Dubik²,

Campbell³

2015

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ABSTRACT. Faced with strict regulations, rising operational costs, depleted stocks, and competition from less expensive foreign imports, many fishers are pursuing new ways to market and sell their catch. Direct marketing arrangements can increase the ex-vessel value of seafood and profitability of operations for fishers by circumventing dominant wholesale chains of custody and capturing the premium that customers are willing to pay for local seafood. Our analysis goes beyond a paradigm that understands direct marketing arrangements as solely economic tools to consider how these emerging business configurations create a set of conditions that can result in increased bonding and bridging capital among fishers by incentivizing cooperation, communication, and information production and organization. To build our case, we report on the economic value being generated for fishers in a cooperatively owned and operated direct marketing arrangement in eastern North Carolina. Over the course of 2 years, fishers participating in the Walking Fish communitysupported fishery received 33% more revenue for their catch compared to the average monthly ex-vessel price of finfish and shellfish landed in the surrounding region, and an additional 14% to 18% more per dollar by way of year-end profit sharing. We argue that these economic benefits create an incentive to participate, resulting in cooperation among fishers and increased communication skills that foster bonding and bridging capital that put fishers in a position to identify and respond to challenges that threaten the socialecological resilience of the systems within which they operate. We suggest that "institutional starters" like these can play a critical role in increasing the resilience of social-ecological systems, including fisheries.

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Overcoming Inaction through Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship: Insights from Regime Theory

Cited by 277 publications

References 80 publications

Field or Fields? Building the Scaffolding for Cumulation of Research on Institutional Fields

Field or Fields? Building the Scaffolding for Cumulation of Research on Institutional Fields

Building the iron cage: institutional creation work in the context of competing proto-institutions

Local seafood: rethinking the direct marketing paradigm

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