Travels of Ideas

Czarniawska, Barbara; Joerges, Bernward

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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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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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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Fiss

Kennedy

Davis

2012

Organization Science

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“…Instead, as they are transferred from one context to another, their meanings and practical implications need to be adapted to local circumstances (Czarniawska and Joerges 1996). While broadlyavailable cultural resources enable organizations to take actions that differ from those of competitors, they also increase the risk that these actions may be inappropriate and/or ineffective.…”

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

Rindova

Dalpiaz

Ravasi

2011

Organization Science

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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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“…Translation forms a valuable counter to notions of the flow of ideas across boundaries; attention shifts to the local and particular settings in which ideas are received, translated, mediated and adapted into new practices (e.g. Czarniawska andJeorges, 1996, Czarniawska andSevόn, 2005;Freeman, 2007;Lendvai, 2005;Salskov-Iversen et al, 2000). The image of 'source' and 'recipient' is rejected in favour of chains of association in which difference produces the possibility of the transformation of both: 'translation involves creating convergences or homologues by relating things that were previously different' (Callon, 1980: 211).…”

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Beyond the deliberative subject? Problems of theory, method and critique in the turn to emotion and affect

Newman

2012

Critical Policy Studies

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This paper explores some of the issues for policy scholars arising from the increasing attention paid to 'emotion' and 'affect' in contemporary social science.One such issue is in the focus placed on detailed ethnographic methods and interpretive forms of analysis, and the problem this raises for drawing out connections to changing regimes of governing and wider shifts in policy and politics.A second lies in the modernist traditions of policy studies, traditions which privilege the rational actor and deliberative subject. This paper uses my own recent research to tease out some issues of method and of theory in conducting a research project that seeks to connect individual working lives to some of the major cultural and social change in Britain over the last 60 years. The paper begins by outlining the project and some of the issues raised in interpreting 'emotion', then goes on to show how I tried to link ethnographic data to wider questions of policy and power. The final section offers two different critical repertoires that have the capacity to link emotions and emotion work to analysis of shifting governmentalities and material conditions of work. Throughout my aim is to enhance the possibility of interdisciplinary conversations by introducing concepts and analytical framings from beyond the traditions of policy studies.

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Travels of Ideas

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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

Beyond the deliberative subject? Problems of theory, method and critique in the turn to emotion and affect

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