INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE SPONSORSHIP OF COMMON TECHNOLOGICAL STANDARDS: THE CASE OF SUN MICROSYSTEMS AND JAVA *

By R. Garud, Sanjay K. Jain, Arun Kumaraswamy. 2002

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Strategy and Management

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Exploring the Foundations of Cumulative Innovation: Implications for Organization Science (2007, methodology): “As research on Intel, Microsoft, Palm, Cisco (Gawer and Cusumano 2002), and Sun Microsystems (Garud and Kumaraswamy 1993, Garud et al. 2002) shows, “platform leaders” may provide selective access to parts of their technologies (often managed through common interfaces) to allow other firms to…”
Institutions and Entrepreneurship Quality (2018, background): “These actors “create a whole new system of meaning that ties the functioning of disparate sets of institutions together” (Garud et al., 2002).”
A Critical Realist Approach To Institutional Entrepreneurship (2006, background): “The concept of institutional entrepreneurship has received increasing attention in recent years (e.g. Dorado, 2005; Garud et al., 2002; Greenwood et al., 2002; Maguire et al., 2004), as researchers have increasingly tried to bring back agency into the institutional framework, and to understand the…”
Overcoming Inaction through Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship: Insights from Regime Theory (2007, background): “Institutional entrepreneurs exercise social and political skills (Fligstein 1997; Garud et al. 2002) to motivate others by providing them with common meaning and identities, and manipulate existing institutions by co-opting important constituencies (Beckert 1999) in a process that has been described”
The Coevolution of Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Two Theories (2010, neutral): “For example, researchers have examined private arrangements and conventions (Leblebici et al., 1991), changes in professionalized practices (Greenwood, Suddaby, & Hinings, 2002), and the sponsorship of common technological standards (Garud, Jain, & Kumaraswamy, 2002).”
Bridging Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Creation of New Organizational Forms: A Multilevel Model (2011, background): “…actors’ capacity to exercise agency and “create a whole new system of meaning that ties the functioning of disparate sets of institutions together” (Garud et al. 2002, p. 196), it also suggests that institutional entrepreneurship is liable to be less linear and predictable than is often…”
Path Dependence or Path Creation (2010, background): “For instance, Garud et al. (2002) describe how Sun Microsystems tried to sponsor its Java technology by purposively setting in motion several reinforcing mechanisms.”
Beyond Creative Destruction and Entrepreneurial Discovery: A Radical Austrian Approach to Entrepreneurship (2007, background): “…literature, how such ‘institutional entrepreneurs’ create new institutions or replace old institutional functions with new ones is poorly understood, but organizational scholars are beginning to make progress on these topics (Garud et al. 2002; Dorado 2005; Munir and Phillips 2005).”
Cognitive Underpinnings of Institutional Persistence and Change: A Framing Perspective (2006, background): “For instance, when Sun Microsystems saw in Java the opportunity to control the internet-related market, its leaders took the risk of collaborating with other software producers to establish Java as an architectural standard (Garud et al., 2002).”
How open is open enough?: Melding proprietary and open source platform strategies (2003, methodology): “An early prototype of Java was made available for user downloads in May 1995, and licensed by most major computer companies over the next year (Garud et al., 2002).”
The rise of the Global Reporting Initiative: a case of institutional entrepreneurship (2009, background): “This poses high demands on the entrepreneurs’ general strategic abilities as well as on their tactical capacities in terms of framing, bargaining, alliance building and motivating (Fligstein 1997, Garud et al. 2002).”
Upscaling of business model experiments in off-grid PV solar energy in India (2012, neutral): “Rarely do individual actors possess sufficient power, resources, and charisma to bring about institutional change (Garud et al. 2002; Leca et al. 2008).”