Bridging Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Creation of New Organizational Forms: A Multilevel Model

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Tracey, Paul; Phillips, Nelson; Jarvis, Owen
• 署名单位: University of Cambridge; Imperial College London
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0522
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 60-80
• 关键词: INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; institutional logic; INSTITUTIONAL WORK; organizational form; Social entrepreneurship

摘要

The question of how new organizational forms are created remains an unsolved problem in new institutional theory. We argue that one important way that new organizational forms emerge is through a process of bridging institutional entrepreneurship, which involves an institutional entrepreneur combining aspects of established institutional logics to create a new type of organization underpinned by anew, hybrid logic. Building on an in-depth case study of a social enterprise in the United Kingdom, we present a model of the institutional work required for this type of institutional entrepreneurship. The model highlights the multilevel nature of bridging institutional entrepreneurship; showing that it entails institutional work at the micro-, meso-, and macrolevels. The study contributes to the literature by examining an important way that institutional entrepreneurs create new organizational forms; shedding light on the relationship between individual, organizational, and societal level institutional processes; and exploring the relationship between entrepreneurship and institutional entrepreneurship.