Adopt or Adapt? Unpacking the Role of Institutional Work Processes in the Implementation of New Regulations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Pemer, Frida; Skjolsvik, Tale
• 署名单位: Stockholm School of Economics; Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1053-1858
• DOI: 10.1093/jopart/mux020
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 138-154
• 关键词: policy implementation; organizational responses; STRATEGIC RESPONSES; LOGICS; FIELDS; TRANSFORMATION; INNOVATION; DYNAMICS; happens; REFORM

摘要

Building on a longitudinal study of the implementation of a new regulation and a framework of institutional work, this article makes three contributions: first, it explains how nonpowerful regulatees, by engaging in mobilization and cultivation, can change the power balance in the field and adjust the regulation to their local setting. Second, it takes a processual view and develops a conceptual model of how the implementation process unfolds through four waves; initial impact, response, recovery, and stabilization. Third, it shows how the studied actors combine contradictory institutional logics to legitimize their practices and resolve institutional complexity. Thus, it adds new insights into how actors, by engaging in collective and discursive institutional work, can influence both the implementation process and the regulation itself.