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

Reihlen, Markus; Smets, Michael; Veit, Andreas

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2009.44247397

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“…These arenas, which we describe as "maturing" fields, combining characteristics of emerging and mature fields, may hold particular conditions for institutional entrepreneurship. Drawing on illustrative data from the German management consulting field (Reihlen, Smets, & Veit, 2010), we explore those conditions and the strategies that consultancies employ to manipulate the institutional ramifications of their own existence and operation.…”

Section: Embedded Action By Central Elites In Mature Fieldsmentioning

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“…Drawing on generic strategies by which self-interested actors may impose institutional constraints on other field participants (Lawrence, 1999) or relax their own (Oliver, 1991), we analyze how consulting firms in Germany manipulate their institutional context to enhance their institutional capital (see especially Reihlen et al, 2010).…”

Section: Management Consulting As a Maturing Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Institutional entrepreneurship: a literature review and analysis of the maturing consulting field

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Reihlen²

2012

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Professional Services

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Institutional entrepreneurship: a literature review and analysis of the maturing consulting field

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2012

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Professional Services

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“…Reihlen and Nikolova, 2010; Werr, 2012) or institutional action (e.g. Greenwood and Suddaby, 2006; Reihlen et al, 2010). Whereas many of these authors in the PSF entrepreneurship domain set their core focus on aspects such as service innovation, knowledge or client interaction, we take an HR-related perspective on corporate entrepreneurship in PSFs in this article.…”

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From professionals to entrepreneurs: Human Resources practices as an enabler for fostering corporate entrepreneurship in professional service firms

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Eymann

Urbach

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German Journal of Human Resource Management

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Professional Service Firms (PSFs) such as accounting, consulting, law, engineering or advertising firms increasingly face changing attitudes and fluctuation among young people with high potential who question traditional career and human resource (HR) concepts. In this context, it seems vital to foster a spirit of corporate entrepreneurship in PSFs to create an attractive environment that satisfies the autonomy-striving professionals. Our research is based on a multiple case study design that investigates how corporate entrepreneurship in the fields of elite accounting/consulting and law firms can be enabled by HR practices. Specifically, we analyse how contemporary PSFs manage to identify, select, build, reward, retain and let go of entrepreneurial professionals. Our findings imply that there are still challenges to overcome in the identification, selection and reward practices, while promising approaches for training and retention exist in order for entrepreneurial behaviour to prosper. Based on these findings, we present HR-related recommendations for fostering corporate entrepreneurship in PSFs and highlight some promising avenues for future research.

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“…In this sense, Oliver defines institutional capital both as "capability" and "institutional context". Subsequent researchers quote Oliver's double definition of institutional capital and combine it with their own researches, which make it more and more difficult to form a consensus [11] [12]. 1) Institutional capital is some kind of resource.…”

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The Relationship between Institutional Capital and Competitive Advantage: Literature Review and Future Research

Huang¹,

Cao²

2016

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The conception of institutional capital was first raised by Oliver, integrating resource-based view with institutional theory, which provided new theoretical explanation for the source of competitive advantage. Through extensive literature review, this paper sorts out the definition of institutional capital and explores the paths form institutional capital to competitive advantage based on four characteristics of strategic resources. It points out the directions for future research and puts forward a logic framework and theoretical innovation space in Chinese context.

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

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

Institutional entrepreneurship: a literature review and analysis of the maturing consulting field

Institutional entrepreneurship: a literature review and analysis of the maturing consulting field

From professionals to entrepreneurs: Human Resources practices as an enabler for fostering corporate entrepreneurship in professional service firms

The Relationship between Institutional Capital and Competitive Advantage: Literature Review and Future Research

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