Measuring the Unmeasured: An Institutional Entrepreneur Strategy in an Emerging Industry

By F. Dejean, Jean‐Pascal Gond, B. Leca. 2004

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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A Model of Social Entrepreneurial Discovery (2009, background): “This aspect is different from traditional entrepreneurship, where ventures often create their own markets (Déjean et al., 2004).”
Standardization as Institutional Work: The Regulatory Power of a Responsible Investment Standard (2012, background): “The influence of standard setters has been evidenced across a broad range of organizational fields from the International Standards Organization (ISO) (Beck & Walgenbach, 2005; Boiral, 2003) to business schools (Durand & McGuire, 2005) and to responsible investment (Déjean et al., 2004).”
Conflicting institutional logics: a national programme for IT in the organisational field of healthcare (2007, background): “As institutionalists concede that agency is underplayed in much of the literature, recent work incorporates the notion of institutional entrepreneurs in environmental and organisational change (Dejean et al ., 2004).”
The Coevolution of Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Two Theories (2010, unknown): “In the area of practices, scholars have looked at how variations in standard practices have led to change in the area of accounting (Greenwood & Suddaby, 2006), mutual funds (Lounsbury & Crumley, 2007), and corporate social responsibility (Dejean, Gond, & Leca, 2004).”
Doing Well by Doing Good: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda for Sustainable Investment (2019, background): “The existence of metrics that allows for the consideration of extra-financial returns of investments is key to the development of sustainable investment [52].”
A Critical Realist Approach To Institutional Entrepreneurship (2006, methodology): “Déjean et al. (2004) suggest that measuring makes it possible to legitimize a new activity in the eyes of stakeholders who value measurement highly.”
Identifying impediments to SRI in Europe: a review of the practitioner and academic literature (2008, background): “…recently reported that between 1999 and 2001, SRI retail mutual funds under management accounted for no more than 0.4% of total funds under management in Europe.6 In France, they accounted for only 0.24% of the total capitalization of mutual funds at the end of 2002 (Dejean et al. 2004: 742).”
The Contested Politics of Corporate Governance (2010, background): “Dejean et al. (2004) have demonstrated how the French SRI industry evolved using simple indices from a specialized company, ARESE, providing the legitimacy of “reliable” and “objective” measures derived from a complex process and professional expertise.”
Agency and Institutions: A Review on Institutional Entrepreneurship (2009, background): “…have been conducted in emerging fields that are less structured and consequently characterized by higher levels of uncertainty (Maguire et al., 2004; Lawrence and Phillips, 2004; Déjean et al., 2004; Garud, Jain, and Kumaraswamy, 2002; Lawrence, 1999; Rao and Sivakumar, 1999; Rao, 1994, 1998).”