Institutional Pressures, Institutional Work and the Development of Universities' Entrepreneurial Turn

Abstract

Based on Institutional Theory, in this theoretical essay we aimed to create a model that could explain the development of the entrepreneurial turn of universities. As a result, we suggest the following theoretical proposition: universities' entrepreneurial turn is contingent on institutional work and may be understood as a result of a confluence of inward and outward forces that are shaped through a historical and recursive interplay between regulative, normative and cultural-cognitive pressures, conjointly derived from each actor of the Triple Helix, that is, the state, the industry - or society in a broader sense - and academia. Our main theoretical contributions consist of : (a) placing the universities' entrepreneurial turn at the epicenter of all the competing institutional pressures and logic when it comes to innovation creation; (b) characterizing the universities' entrepreneurial turn as a result of the recursive interplay between regulative, normative and cultural-cognitive pressures, conjointly derived from each actor of the Triple Helix; and (c) stressing the fundamental role of the institutional work performed by institutional entrepreneurs in the process of developing the universities' entrepreneurial turn.

Empreendedorismo e inovação: ações de fomento no Submédio Vale do São Francisco / Entrepreneurship and innovation: development actions in the Sub-middle Valley of São Francisco

“…A capacidade de empreender implica um olhar visionário, perspicácia para perceber as necessidades ao seu redor, coragem para enfrentar desafios e progressivamente ir angariando, com as experiências, as diversas características de um agente inovador. Sobre isso, Amarante & Crubellate (2020) afirmam que essa arte pode ser didaticamente passada e tranquilamente absorvida por quem almeja executa-la.…”

“…Porém, em contrapartida, implica identificar quais são as variáveis que a impelirão a um desfecho proveitoso e favorável (AMARANTE & CRUBELLATE, 2020).…”

Reordenação do status da cachaça de alambique: uma abordagem sob a ótica do trabalho institucional

“…A escolha da teoria permite a compreensão dos fenômenos relacionados ao trabalho institucional com foco nas práticas empregadas pelos atores do campo. É importante sublinhar que as pesquisas teórico-empíricas de trabalho institucional estão predominantemente concentradas na América do Norte e na Europa (Hampel, Lawrence, & Tracey, 2017;Delphine, 2017;Castro & Ansari, 2017;Hamann, & Bertels, 2018;Wouter, Kristy, & Koen, 2019;Zvolska, Palgan, & Mont, 2019;Zara & Delacour, 2020), ainda com poucos estudos desenvolvidos no Brasil (Jacometti, Gonçalves, & Castro, 2014;Coraiola, Jacometti, Baratter, & Gonçalves, 2015;Zarpelon, Bittencourt, Faccin, & Balestrin, 2019;Lima, Balestrin, Faccin, & Marconatto, 2019;Amarante & Crubellate, 2020).…”

Interrupção da informalidade na cachaça artesanal: uma análise sob a ótica do trabalho institucional

“…As a theoretical contribution, it should be noted that the choice of Institutional Work is configured as a current of recent thought and that has attracted the attention of academia in recent years, due to the significant increase in the publication of studies that adopt the perspective, especially in organizational studies (Lawrence, Leca & Zilber, 2013, Zarpelon et al, 2019. However, the studies that have focused on this theoretical current are predominantly concentrated in North America and Europe, with few studies developed in Brazil (Jacometi, Gonçalves & Castro, 2014;Coraiola et al, 2015;Miranda & Calmon, 2016;Lino et al, 2019;Zarpelon et al, 2019;Lima et al, 2019;Amarante & Crubellate, 2020), thus revealing an open field for scientific research 1 .…”