FROM PRACTICE TO FIELD: A MULTILEVEL MODEL OF PRACTICE-DRIVEN INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Smets, Michael; Morris, Tim; Greenwood, Royston
• 署名单位: Aston University; University of Oxford; University of Alberta
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2010.0013
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 877-904
• 关键词: organizations; entrepreneurship; TRANSFORMATION; professionals; emergence; MOVEMENT; ACTORS; LAW; COORDINATION; strategies

摘要

This article develops a model of practice-driven institutional change or change that originates in the everyday work of individuals but results in a shift in field-level logic. In demonstrating how improvisations at work can generate institutional change, we attend to the earliest moments of change, which extant research has neglected; and we contrast existing accounts that focus on active entrepreneurship and the contested nature of change. We outline the specific mechanisms by which change emerges from everyday work, becomes justified, and diffuses within an organization and field, as well as precipitating and enabling dynamics that trigger and condition these mechanisms.