The Dialectics of Institutional Development in Emerging and Turbulent Fields: The History of Pricing Conventions in The On-Line Database Industry

Institutional Theory and Entrepreneurship: Where Are We Now and Where Do We Need to Move in the Future?

“…There are notable exceptions, however, such as the work by Farjoun (2002), which employs an economic/political view of institutional theory as he examines pricing in emerging industry of online databases. Similarly, the work of Moran and Ghoshal (1999) in AMR employed the economic/ political view as the authors extend the theory for the development of markets and economies.…”

An exploratory comparison of the management of innovation in the New and Old economies

“…But more notably, business, government and opinion leaders appear more aware of the strategic role of knowledge. The turbulent dynamics of knowledge-based competition has been institutionalised in cognitive schemes and patterns of resource flows for a variety of sectors (Bogner and Barr, 2000;Farjoun, 2002;Thomas, 1996). New types of financial institutions, such as venture capital, new ways of protecting intellectual property for new forms of economically useful knowledge, and shifts in educational programmes now sustain this dynamic.…”

Launching professional services automation: Institutional entrepreneurship for information technology innovations

“…Thus, developers of Java needed a standard to develop multiple, interoperable applications (Garud, Jain, & Kumaraswamy, 2002). Vendors and users of online databases needed a pricing convention to support recurrent transactions (Farjoun, 2002). Such arrangements are institutional in that they ''produce social relationships across firms in order to allow them to survive'' (Fligstein, 2001a, p. 70).…”