Institutional analysis in a digital era: mechanisms and methods to understand emerging fields

Powell, Walter W.; Oberg, Achim; Korff, Valeska; Oelberger, Carrie; Kloos, Karina

doi:10.4337/9781784716875.00016

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“…Regarding fields, we concur with Powell et al (2017) that "a conceptual transition alone, however, does not suffice. We need new methods to accommodate a wider focus, which requires asking how to identify the members of nascent fields".…”

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“…To test the merits of this method, we use it to explore the issue field of 'social impact' in the US context, studied recently by Powell et al (2017).…”

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“…We now proceed to mapping the same field with the methodology laid out above. Powell et al (2017) identified 369 actors in the field of social impact. We start by identifying the Twitter accounts of these 369 actors to evaluate the overlap with the actors that our method will identify.…”

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“…We define an 'intensity' score for each actor in the global network, corresponding to the sum of the values of the intensity scores in each seed network where this actor was 6. See Powell et al (2017) for a similar step in their procedure, where they 'remove noise' from the list of actors they initially collect. In practice, they rely on the qualitative assessment of five members of their research team to remove irrelevant actors.…”

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Opening Fields: A Methodological Contribution to the Identification of Heterogeneous Actors in Unbounded Relational Orders

Benabdelkrim

Levallois

Savinien

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Institutional scholarship studies how individuals coexist and interact with social structures. Organizations and inter-organizational relations within industries are a central focus of these studies. Hence, empirical research has so far largely relied on the observation of individual actors identified by their organizational attributes, and organizations identified by their industry characteristics. The flourishing of new types of social structures has sent an invitation to observe a broader range of actors beyond organizations stricto sensu, and to define the arena of interest beyond the boundaries of industry membership. However, in practice, these remain a favorite starting point of empirical investigations. In this article, we present a new method for the study of organizational fields that facilitates the identification of a large number and varied types of actors in a given field, provides a characterization of the relational structure of the field, and offers a content analysis on different sub-regions of the field. We test the method by replicating a previous study in the field of ‘social impact of nonprofits’, and show how it can contribute to operationalize mechanisms at play in the field. We conclude by noting that the principles of this method can extend beyond the dataset it is originally built on and facilitate a comparative approach to the study of fields. This contribution should enhance the value of the field as a theoretical construct by extending its operational reach.

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“…To test the merits of this method, we use it to explore the issue field of 'social impact' in the US context, studied recently by Powell et al (2017).…”

Section: Gauging the Methodology: A Test Casementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gauging the Methodology: A Test Casementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Merging the Actors Identified From Each Seed Into A Single mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Opening Fields: A Methodological Contribution to the Identification of Heterogeneous Actors in Unbounded Relational Orders

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Levallois

Savinien

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“…With websites being increasingly a primary vehicle for communication with key audiences (e.g., Powell, Oberg, Korff, & Kloos, 2017), as well as for identity construction (e.g., Brown, 2006;Sillince & Brown, 2009), we expect this medium to document and record relationships between the city and its constituencies.…”

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Toward a Structural Model of Organizational-Level Institutional Pluralism and Logic Interconnectedness

Jancsary

Meyer

Höllerer

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Organization Science

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The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): I 635-G17. Dennis Jancsary, Renate Meyer, and Markus Höllerer wish to thank SCANCOR for providing an excellent working environment during their sabbaticals. Dennis Jancsary also thanks the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University for its support. We are indebted to our editor and the three anonymous reviewers for their in-depth engagement with our ideas and their valuable suggestions.

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Governing the Crossroads: Interstitial Communities and the Fate of Nonprofit Evaluation

Korff

Oberg

Powell

2017

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Institutional analysis in a digital era: mechanisms and methods to understand emerging fields

Cited by 27 publications

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Opening Fields: A Methodological Contribution to the Identification of Heterogeneous Actors in Unbounded Relational Orders

Opening Fields: A Methodological Contribution to the Identification of Heterogeneous Actors in Unbounded Relational Orders

Toward a Structural Model of Organizational-Level Institutional Pluralism and Logic Interconnectedness

Governing the Crossroads: Interstitial Communities and the Fate of Nonprofit Evaluation

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