Institutional entrepreneurship in mature fields: The big five accounting firms

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Greenwood, R; Suddaby, R
• 署名单位: University of Alberta
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 27-48
• 关键词: organizational form; TRANSFORMATION; MODEL; coevolution; adaptation; conformity; management; EVOLUTION; industry

摘要

This study examines change initiated from the center of mature organizational fields. As such, it addresses the paradox of embedded agency-that is, the paradox of how actors enact changes to the context by which they, as actors, are shaped. The change examined is the introduction of a new organizational form. Combining network location theory and dialectical theory, we identify four dynamics that form a process model of elite institutional entrepreneurship.