Institutional dynamics in a re-ordering world

Djelic, Marie‐Laure; Sahlin‐Andersson, Kerstin

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“…In particular, our metaphor should further the shift away from a focus on the economic value produced by stakeholder relationships (Freeman et al, 2018) to provide a more encompassing, macro perspective that assesses the aesthetic value of stakeholders mobilizing toward achieving a goal (Harrison & Wicks, 2013), specifically in the context of grand challenges (George et al, 2016). By extension, we hope that our systems approach can provide more comprehensive answers to outstanding questions in stakeholder-related research on social responsibility (Margolis & Walsh, 2003) but also specific phenomena, such as MSIs (de Bakker et al, 2019; Mena & Palazzo, 2012), cross-sector social partnerships (Ahmadsimab & Chowdhury, 2021; Ashraf et al, 2017), and transnational standard-setting (Djelic & Sahlin-Andersson, 2006; Marques, 2019; Reinecke, Manning, & Von Hagen, 2012).…”

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Tackling Grand Challenges beyond Dyads and Networks: Developing a Stakeholder Systems View Using the Metaphor of Ballet

Roulet

Bothello²

2021

Bus. Ethics Q.

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Tackling grand challenges requires coordination and sustained effort among multiple organizations and stakeholders. Yet research on stakeholder theory has been conceptually constrained in capturing this complexity: existing accounts tend to focus either on dyadic level firm–stakeholder ties or on stakeholder networks within which the focal organization is embedded. We suggest that addressing grand challenges requires a more generative conceptualization of organizations and their constituents as stakeholder systems. Using the metaphor of ballet and insights from dance theory, we highlight four defining dimensions of stakeholder systems (two structural and two dyadic); we proceed to offer a dynamic model of how those dimensions may interact and coevolve. Our metaphor and resulting theory of stakeholder systems are thereby well equipped to incorporate the complexity of tackling grand challenges, where many contemporary stakeholder arrangements are oriented around issues rather than firms.

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confidence: 99%

Tackling Grand Challenges beyond Dyads and Networks: Developing a Stakeholder Systems View Using the Metaphor of Ballet

Roulet

Bothello²

2021

Bus. Ethics Q.

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“…Standards, on the other hand, are formalized rules and material measures (Busch, 2011) As socio-technical devices that appear to be rational and based on expertise (Ransom et al, 2017), standards are designed to diffuse worldwide (Strang and Meyer, 1993). Their voluntary nature makes it possible that state borders are no obstacle for standards, so that they regulate transnationally (Bartley, 2007; Djelic and Sahlin-Andersson, 2006). However, it would be naïve to believe that standards therefore lead to global homogenization and uniformity (Timmermans and Epstein, 2010).…”

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Governing value(s) and organizing through standards

Loconto

Arnold

2022

International Sociology

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Standards are strongly intertwined with values in economic contexts, which goes far beyond economic value. Standards’ diversity is expressed in local spaces where standards are made, put into action, circulate and commensurate. In these mutually linked and globally distributed spaces, we can analyze the ways in which standards and value(s) encounter each other and what consequences this brings for individuals, organizations, communities, and societies. Examining different settings of food production and organization brings new insights into the sociological explanations and understandings of how standards are guided by values and create value(s). These insights highlight new tensions between global and local social dynamics and offer two ways forward for the sociology of standards. First, is the importance of intermediation between the values of the standards and the governance effects of these same standards. Second, is the relevance of valuelessness, where the prioritization of some values devalues others or loses them completely.

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“…Even if no direct confrontation opposed the foreign intervention of experts in the Romanian accounting reforms, it was however an asynchronous confrontation of accounting regimes, taking as the ‘battlefield’ the uncharted accounting territory of post-communist countries. It reflects in this way the struggles that are taking place on a more global arena, where national and global logics are confronting each other in shaping international regulation (Djelic and Sahlin-Andersson, 2006). This episode at the periphery reveals the twists and turns of accounting reforms in transition, supporting the idea that accounting regulation is not a neutral framework, but it translates a broader geopolitical setting.…”

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Struggles in the accounting arena: A geopolitical reading of Romanian accounting reforms

2022

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Transition economies have undertaken an accelerated series of reforms after the collapse of communism, aiming at the (re)construction of market institutions. In this paper we build on a geopolitical perspective, and on accounting profession literature to map the accounting reforms in post-communist Romania. We find that accounting reforms are reflecting broader processes of globalisation and Europeanization. By examining the ‘territorial’ disputes over the Romanian accounting reform and the successive leadership of groups of experts from France and United Kingdom we draw attention on the drivers of accounting reforms. These are not limited to the technical aspects of accounting and the interests of the actors, but have their roots embedded in the broader geopolitical setting. In the case of Romania, the European Union accession guides the path and pace of accounting reforms, having as general background the globalisation of accounting regulation.

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Institutional dynamics in a re-ordering world

Cited by 37 publications

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Tackling Grand Challenges beyond Dyads and Networks: Developing a Stakeholder Systems View Using the Metaphor of Ballet

Tackling Grand Challenges beyond Dyads and Networks: Developing a Stakeholder Systems View Using the Metaphor of Ballet

Governing value(s) and organizing through standards

Struggles in the accounting arena: A geopolitical reading of Romanian accounting reforms

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