Imitating by Editing Success: The Construction of Organizational Fields

Organizing and Disorganizing Strategic Communication: Discursive Institutional Change Dynamics in Two Communication Departments

“…(Grant & Marshak, 2011). In the process where organizational members think and talk about organizational change, they formulate and reformulate practices in the setting of the organization (Sahlin-Andersson, 1996) and participate in the discursive construction of boundaries between roles and of the organizations they are part of. Individuals within organizations engage in discursive activity to generate new meanings that can help -or hinder -the enactment of particular strategies, ideas or practices.…”

“…The outcome is communication professionals working in a loosely coupled department, where the professionals sit together but still actually work closely connected to departments and specific projects. The skepticism towards the top-down decision of the local government results in an organizationally translated and adjusted solution according to a problem solving logic (Sahlin-Andersson, 1996;Sahlin & Wedlin, 2008), which is eventually abandoned and reverted. Thus, the change in this organization is an example of reforms that make public sector organizations act more like business organizations in terms of, for example, branding and measurable objectives or results (Christensen & Laegreid, 2002;Eshuis & Klijn, 2012).…”

The emergence of citizen panels as a de facto standard

“…Concepts such as 'travel of ideas' give an idea of how standards could become mobile when they spread in a contagion process from niches to broader application contexts. 20 Therefore, the design standard has to be packaged and edited in a manner that offers solutions to the followers' problems and that clearly points out unique selling points of the design standard to be more attractive than others 21 . One can assume that, in this process of standard profiling, designers focus on their single design standard.…”

Societal entrepreneurship contextualized: the dark and bright sides of Fair Trade

“…In the diffusion of ideas by imitation between organizations, there is a tendency of organizations to implement the latest ideas (Sahlin-Andersson, 1996;Sevón, 1996). Ideas like those of Fair Trade travel with actors such as standardization organizations, consultants, media, and academics and are translated into organizations by a transformation of the original idea (Sevón, 1996;Czarniawska and Joerges, 1996).…”