Legitimizing a new role: Small wins and microprocesses of change

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Reay, Trish; Golden-Biddle, Karen; Germann, Kathy
• 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: 977-998
• 关键词: INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; JOB EMBEDDEDNESS; time; TRANSFORMATION; ORGANIZATIONS; FIELDS; ACTORS; work

摘要

How do individual actors institute changes in established ways of working? Longitudinal research is the basis for our theoretical model showing how actors legitimize new practices by accomplishing three interdependent, recursive, situated microprocesses: (1) cultivating opportunities for change, (2) fitting a new role into prevailing systems, and (3) proving the value of the new role. These microprocesses are demarcated by an accumulating series of small wins that consolidate gains while facilitating continuing change efforts. Most accounts of institutional change focus on embeddedness as a constraint, yet our study shows how embeddedness can provide the foundation and opportunity for change.