HIGH-STAKES INSTITUTIONAL TRANSLATION: ESTABLISHING NORTH AMERICA'S FIRST GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED SUPERVISED INJECTION SITE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lawrence, Thomas B.
• 署名单位: University of Oxford
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2015.0714
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 1771-1800
• 关键词: STRATEGIC CHANGE; entrepreneurship; DYNAMICS; IDENTITY; work; emergence; discourse; POLITICS; emotion; empathy

摘要

Around the world, potentially effective responses to serious social problems are left untried because those responses are politically, culturally, or morally problematic in affected communities. I describe the process through which communities import such practices as high-stakes institutional translation. Drawing on a study of NorthAmerica's first supervised injection site for users of illegal drugs, I propose a process model of high-stakes institutional translation that involves a triggering period of public expressions of intense emotion, followed by waves of translations in which the controversial practice is constructed in discursive and material terms many times over.