The Work of the Symbolic in Institutional Processes: Translations of Rational Myths in Israeli High Tech

Zilber, Tammar B.

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“…However, other aspects of practice diffusion clearly also warrant attention, such as changes in a practice's framing and its associated meaning (e.g., Dacin et al 2002;Hirsch 1986;Strang and Meyer 1993;Zilber 2002Zilber , 2006. More recently, we have witnessed a renewed emphasis on using interpretive approaches to understanding how organizations adapt, interpret, and "translate" practices to fit local conditions (Boxenbaum and Battilana 2005, Czarniawska and Joerges 1996, Sahlin-Andersson and Engwall 2002, Zilber 2006. If a diffusing practice like the golden parachute comes with normative theories attached, whether explicit or INFORMS holds copyright to this article and distributed this copy as a courtesy to the author(s).…”

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“…Specifically, media discourse is a central venue for conversations about new products and practices and acts as a key source of sensemaking Hirsch 2005, Kennedy 2008); thus the media not only cover but also construct social realities and agendas (Zilber 2006). We follow Strang and Macy (2001) in assuming a model of boundedly rational actors seeking to learn from limited information about the experiences of others, particularly by emulating the most successful peers.…”

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How Golden Parachutes Unfolded: Diffusion and Variation of a Controversial Practice

Fiss

Kennedy

Davis

2012

Organization Science

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W e contribute to a growing focus on variation in diffusion processes by examining the ways in which contested practices are modified as they spread among adopters. Expanding on prior diffusion accounts, we argue that the extensiveness and similarity of a practice will vary in response to both population-and organization-level mechanisms. To examine these issues, we study variation in "golden parachute" contracts, a controversial corporate governance practice that emerged and spread widely during the hostile takeover wave of the 1980s. Using a concept network approach to analyze the composition of parachute plans, we find evidence of mechanisms that both increase and decrease extensiveness and variation of golden parachutes. Our findings hold implications for accounts of practice diffusion over contested terrain by revealing substantial variation in the course of diffusion.

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How Golden Parachutes Unfolded: Diffusion and Variation of a Controversial Practice

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Kennedy

Davis

2012

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“…For example, Weber (2005) finds that pharmaceutical companies assemble their repertoires from concepts available in the industry register and use them to formulate competitive strategies and to establish different terms for human resource management. Similarly, Ocasio and Joseph (2005) show that organizations change the corporate governance concepts in their repertories to mirror changes in their surrounding institutional context, and Zilber (2006) shows that high-tech Israeli companies use concepts from the Israeli political system in recruitment communications. Together, these studies highlight the importance of understanding how organizations use cultural resources and stress that organizational cultural repertoires are largely derived from the subset of cultural resources legitimated within their industry registers or institutional contexts.…”

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“…Indeed, a recent stream of organizational research has begun to explore how organizations use cultural toolkits (Ocasio and Joseph 2005;Osterman 2006;Weber 2005;Zilber 2006). Whereas Swidler (1986) referred to different forms of cultural resources, including stories, concepts, symbols, and myths, organizational research has studied organizational cultural repertoires primarily in terms of the concepts used to guide organizational practices.…”

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A Cultural Quest: A Study of Organizational Use of New Cultural Resources in Strategy Formation

Rindova

Dalpiaz

Ravasi

2011

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. A central insight that has emerged from this research is that: individuals' cultural repertoires enable them to conceive diverse strategies of actions to address different situations. Thus, although in a pathdependent and identity-constrained manner, culture provides individuals with a toolkit from which they can select resources to take strategic actions and effect change. This view of culture as a toolkit holds considerable promise for understanding strategic action and change at the organizational level of analysis. A different stream of organizational research has investigated the consequences of the use of cultural resources from outside an organization's industry register. This research emphasizes that the use of such resources is difficult, and potentially detrimental to organizations. Oakes, Townley, and Cooper (1998), for instance, document the tensions arising from the forced introduction of business concepts in the provincial museums and heritage sites of Alberta. Similarly, arts organizations that try to incorporate business concepts into their repertoire to become more commercially focused have been found to experience internal tensions (Fine 1992;Glynn 2000) due to the conflict between commercial considerations and the expressive function of arts (Eikhof and Haunschild 2007;Hirsch 1972). This research similarly suggests that organizations tend to use primarily cultural resources from their industry registers, and that doing otherwise is difficult and costly. Permanent repository link1 Concepts are culturally situated, extra-subjective frames for understanding social reality (Munir and Phillips 2005) that organize knowledge in a particular domain and provide relatively shared schemas guiding actions in a collectivity. 5As a result, whether and how organizations can expand their cultural repertoires with new cultural resources from outside their industry registers and the resulting consequences for their strategies remains poorly understood.To address these questions, we undertook a study of the evolution of the cultural repertoire of Alessi, RESEARCH METHOD Research SettingStrategic change at Alessi. Our study is an inductive inquiry (Glaser and Strauss 1967) carried out through an in-depth, longitudinal analysis of a revelatory case (Yin 1994) that provided an excellent research setting as it engaged in a clearly demarcated strategic change process. In the late 1960s, Alessi was the technological and market leader in the tableware segment of the Italian metal household industry, due to its advanced skills in cold-pressed steel production. In 1970, Alberto Alessi, the founder's grandson, joined the organization and, despite its positive economic performance, he steered it in a radically different directionusing industrial production methods to make art objects in steel. The first attempt in that direction failed, but 6 in the following years, Alessi developed innovative practices i...

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“…In contrast, the concept of translation helps us understand how these encounters produce opportunities of constructing something new and of changing what is translated but also the translator (Czarniawska, 2012, p. 27). It has been used to move away from the diffusion model of the institutional approaches and to draw attention to the way that ideas (norms, rules, practices), rather than moving along unchanged, are inevitably modified as they travel in space and time (Zilber, 2006). In an application of this theoretical lens, Maguire and Hardy (2009) Although the secondary data used to describe the illustrative cases is very rich, a common shortcoming in this type of data is that the information made available may be influenced by the role and interests of the actors producing the material (e.g.…”

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Community Protocols as Tools for Resisting Exclusion in Global Environmental Governance

Delgado

2016

Rev. adm. empres.

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Protocolos comunitários como ferramentas de resistência à exclusão no âmbito da governança ambiental global Protocolos comunitarios como herramientas para resistir a la exclusión en gobernanza ambiental global ABSTRACTThis paper analyzes the rise of the community protocol approach under the access and benefit-sharing (ABS) transnational governance arena, to understand how local initiatives translate a global environmental regulation. This paper contributes to the literature on transnational governance by showing how this is constituted by a series of translation processes and each time a concept is introduced in a transnational arena and then translated by a community or organization, it gains new forms and uses depending on the interests and experiences of the actors involved. However, the same concept used for the same goal by communities in different parts of the world led to different concrete outcomes, which points to the idea that the outcomes in translation processes are not only ongoing but also unpredictable. In addition, the cases illustrate that in the process of actively translating a global regulation, the local actors themselves also change. Finally, the emergent findings show how community protocols were translated to become translocal tools to resist exclusion in environmental governance through two main mechanisms: connecting goals and practices and (re)connecting social networks. KEYWORDS | Transnational governance, translation, translocal resistance, local communities, access and benefit-sharing. RESUMO RAE-Revista de Administração de Empresas | FGV/EAESP

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The Work of the Symbolic in Institutional Processes: Translations of Rational Myths in Israeli High Tech

Cited by 313 publications

References 43 publications

How Golden Parachutes Unfolded: Diffusion and Variation of a Controversial Practice

How Golden Parachutes Unfolded: Diffusion and Variation of a Controversial Practice

A Cultural Quest: A Study of Organizational Use of New Cultural Resources in Strategy Formation

Community Protocols as Tools for Resisting Exclusion in Global Environmental Governance

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