Emerging Institutions: Pyramids or Anthills?

Czarniawska, Barbaraswe
Gothenburg Research Instituteswe
2006-11-21swe
2007-02-13T12:57:13Z
2007-02-13T12:57:13Z
2006swe
In the present text, an institution is understood to be an (observable) pattern of collective action, justified by a corresponding social norm. By this definition, an institution emerges slowly, although it may be helped or hindered by various specific acts. From this perspective, an institutional entrepreneur is an oxymoron, at least in principle. In practice, however, there are and always have been people trying to create institutions. This paper describes the emergence of London School of Economics and Political Science as an institution and analyzes its founders and its supporters during crises as institutional entrepreneurs. A tentative theory of the phenomenon of institutional entrepreneurship inspired by an actor-network theory is then tested on two other cases described in brief.swe
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Göteborg University. School of Business, Economics and Lawswe
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GRI reports, nr 2006:7swe
higher educationswe
institutionsswe
entrepreneursswe
actor-network theoryswe
Business studiesswe
Emerging Institutions: Pyramids or Anthills?swe
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