Management Consultancies as Institutional Agents: Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Institutional Capital

Reihlen, Markus; Smets, Michael; Veit, Andreas

doi:10.1007/bf03396809

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“…Closer attention to such activities has helped to correct simplified images of mindless institutional reproduction or unconstrained individual agency (Delbridge and Edwards, 2008), and to replace them with more nuanced alternatives of collective and distributed agency (e.g. Lounsbury and Crumley, 2007;Perkmann and Spicer, 2008;Reihlen et al, 2010). Discussions of institutional maintenance in particular have drawn attention to the sometimes conscious reproduction of institutions and have brought a more refined view of agency to institutional debates.…”

Section: Institutional Workmentioning

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Reconstructing institutional complexity in practice: A relational model of institutional work and complexity

2013

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Section: Institutional Workmentioning

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Reconstructing institutional complexity in practice: A relational model of institutional work and complexity

2013

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“…Consultancy firms seek to influence the management discourse, for example. in such a way that certain products and processes are perceived as rational and effective (Berglund, ) and thus they may serve as institutional agents (Reihlen, Smets, & Veit, ). Management studies on the effect of employing consultancy firms underline the reputational spill‐over benefits (Bergh & Gibbons, ).…”

Section: Organizations As Change‐agents Of Social Institutions Publimentioning

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Changing labour migration politics in Germany: an organizational perspective

Maletzky

2017

International Migration

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Migration research has mainly focused on micro and macro level actors. Less research has focused on the meso‐level of organizations as actors influencing migration related processes. However, since modern societies are organizational societies and organizations are omnipresent in all spheres of daily life, their importance for migration issues should not be underestimated. Addressing this gap within migration research, the purpose of the following article is to apply a perspective of organization sociology to changes in migration politics. Referring to the German case with recent fundamental changes in migration politics, this article traces which roles organizations played in that process. It is assumed that they do institutional work (Lawrence & Suddaby, ), which means that they disrupt and change existing (migration related) institutions and politics. First, it gives insights into how existing institutions and thought patterns have been disrupted and reconstructed by (economic) organizations. Several strategies are observable. These include creating coalitions, advocacy, and social persuasion by introducing narratives which are alarming, morally compelling and convincing.

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“…This element of distributed agency (Smets and Jarzabkowski, 2013;Reihlen et al, 2010 (2013) points out, the construction of such resources constitutes work in itself and therefore needs further examination.…”

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Policy change as institutional work

Svensson

Tomson

Rindzevičiūtė

2017

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Purpose: Policy change is frequently framed as resulting from governmental strategy based on explicit preferences, rational decision-making and consecutive and aligned implementation. This article instead explores the theoretical perspective of institutional work as an alternative approach to understanding policy change, and investigates the construction of resources needed to perform such work.Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on a case study of the process wherein the idea of cultural and creative industries was introduced into Lithuanian cultural policy. The main data generating methods are document studies and qualitative interviews. Findings:The analysis demonstrates the ways in which the resources needed to perform institutional work are created through the enactment of practice, and through the application of resourcing techniques. Three such techniques are identified in the empirical material: the application of experiences from several fields of practice, the elicitation of external support, and the borrowing of legitimacy. Originality/value:The study offers an alternative approach to studies of policy change by demonstrating the value of institutional work in such change. Further, it contributes to the literature on institutional work by highlighting how instances of such work, drawing on a distributed agency, interlink and connect to each other in a process to produce policy change. Finally, it proposes three interrelated resourcing techniques underlying institutional work.

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Management Consultancies as Institutional Agents: Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Institutional Capital

Cited by 18 publications

References 71 publications

Reconstructing institutional complexity in practice: A relational model of institutional work and complexity

Reconstructing institutional complexity in practice: A relational model of institutional work and complexity

Changing labour migration politics in Germany: an organizational perspective

Policy change as institutional work

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