Institutional Multiplicity in Practice: A Tale of Two High-Tech Conferences in Israel

Zilber, Tammar B.

doi:10.1287/orsc.1100.0611

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“…Scholars have pointed out the relevance of events as occasions of institutional change, claiming that these are opportunities when legitimacy is assigned to practices, ideas are stimulated and promoted, networks are strengthened, and new markets are created (Anand & Jones, 2008;Delacour & Leca, 2011;Garud, 2008;Glynn, 2008;Hardy & Maguire, 2010;Lampel & Meyer, 2008;McInerney, 2008;Moeran & Pedersen, 2011;Oliver & Montgomery, 2008;Zilber, 2011). The basic intuition is that conferences, conventions, congresses and awards are moments in which multiple actors interact, reconfiguring social rules, standards and positions.…”

Section: Understanding Prizes From An Institutionalist Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Recovering Materiality in Institutional Work

Monteiro

Nicolini

2014

Journal of Management Inquiry

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This paper focuses on the neglected role of material elements (e.g., objects and spaces) in institutional processes. The work is empirically grounded on the study of two prizes: one aimed at institutionalizing a managerial model in the public sector and the other, a form of patient-centered care in the health services. Grounded on (post-humanist) practice theory, we discuss how materiality participates in the work to support the legitimacy of these approaches. More specifically, we show that material elements share with humans the efforts involved in mimicry, theorizing, educating and reconfiguring normative networks roles. The paper refines and enriches the notion of institutional work by recovering its practice-based sensitivity and is the first step towards re-examining fundamental questions on the nature of situated action and distributed effort in institutional analysis.Keywords: field-configuring events, institutional work, materiality, objects, practice theory, prizes, spaces. 3In their foundational text, Lawrence and Suddaby (2006) explain that the notion of institutional work stems from two traditions: One that acknowledges the role of actors in changing/maintaining institutions -relating to discussions of agency -and another that sees social action as a situated affair, in line with practice theory (Nicolini, 2012;Schatzki, Knorr Cetina, & von Savigny, 2000). While the former stresses "the impact of individual and collective actors on … institutions" (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006, p. 218), the latter highlights the "embodied [and] materially mediated" nature of human activities (Schatzki in Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006, p. 218).Inquiries into how actors are involved in institutional dynamics is a prolific field, as evidenced by the number of researches on institutional entrepreneurship (Battilana, Leca, & Boxenbaum, 2009;Garud, Hardy, & Maguire, 2007). On the other hand, the practice-based dimension of the notion has been largely overlooked. This is unfortunate as the tradition "has the potential to provide a robust theoretical foundation for the concept of institutional work" (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006, p. 216).At the core of practice theory we find an insistence on "the critical role of the body and material things in all social affairs" (Nicolini, 2012, p. 4). However, institutional scholarship in general, and empirical studies on institutional work in particular (Perkmann & Spicer, 2008;Rojas, 2010;Zietsma & Lawrence, 2010) have mainly highlighted the constitutive influence of historical and cognitive structures on actions, leaving their material dimension in the background (Hwang & Colyvas, 2011).In this paper, we address this neglected aspect of institutional work (and institutionalism more generally) and show that there is much to be gained if this line of inquiry were expanded to accommodate an awareness of the role played by materiality. We combine the idea that materials (e.g., objects and spaces) are part of the way in which social processes and organizations are enacted and stabilized (...

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Section: Understanding Prizes From An Institutionalist Perspectivementioning

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Recovering Materiality in Institutional Work

Monteiro

Nicolini

2014

Journal of Management Inquiry

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“…Field-level events serve as an arena for collective sense-making (Garud, 2008;Lampel & Meyer, 2008;Maguire & Hardy, 2006;McInerney, 2008;Oliver & Montgomery, 2008;Zilber, 2007), for they redirect actors' attention (Anand &Watson, 2004) and offer an opportunity for actors to present and discuss issues that they find important (Anand & Jones, 2008;McInerney, 2008). Fieldlevel events also facilitate interactions among field constituencies, distribute prestige, and allow for conflicts to be expressed and worked out (Anand & Watson, 2004) or downplayed (Zilber, 2011). They thus establish and foster the social structure of the field and its identity (Glynn, 2008;Lampel & Meyer, 2008;Moeran, 2010;Moeran, 2011;Oliver & Montgomery, 2008;Rao, 1994;Stam, 2010).…”

Section: Institutional Fields Collective Identity and Field-level Ementioning

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Know Thy Place: Location and Imagined Communities in Institutional Field Dynamics

Zilber

2018

Knowledge and Institutions

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“…The analysis focuses on the influence of single events and other occurrences on standards, rules, practices and institutions within an organizational field (Glynn 2008;Zilber 2011). Field-configuring events are understood here as 'microcosms of nascent technologies, industries, and markets.…”

Section: Trade Fairs and Congresses As Field-configuring Eventsmentioning

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Rewiring global networks at local events: congresses in the stock photo trade

Panitz

Glückler

2016

Global Networks

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Keywords TEMPORARY CLUSTER, TRADE FAIRS, REWIRING, SOCIAL NETWORKS, TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL RELATIONS ProblemThe parallelism of increasing globalization of economic relationships and the growing number of events in the creative economy such as trade fairs and congresses is the point of departure for this article. The current literatures of economic geography and organization studies portray the relationship between these two developments in three ways: these events fulfil the functions of (1) market locations for commercial transaction, (2) moments of institutional configuration of organizational fields, and (3) temporary clusters where suppliers, customers and competitors seek and exchange knowledge. This article goes on to elaborate a fourth central function of business events, which is closely related to the reconstitution of global industry networks, namely the rewiring of

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Institutional Multiplicity in Practice: A Tale of Two High-Tech Conferences in Israel

Cited by 115 publications

References 89 publications

Recovering Materiality in Institutional Work

Recovering Materiality in Institutional Work

Know Thy Place: Location and Imagined Communities in Institutional Field Dynamics

Rewiring global networks at local events: congresses in the stock photo trade

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