Overcoming Inaction through Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship: Insights from Regime Theory

By Frank Wijen, Shahzad Ansari. 2007

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Informal Economy: China's Shan-Zhai Mobile Phones (2014, background): “Aggregating relies on the interaction and collaboration of different participants in the industry to build critical mass or scale (Rao, Morrill, and Zald, 2000; Wijen and Ansari, 2007).”
The Coevolution of Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Two Theories (2010, background): “For instance, Wijen and Ansari (2007) combine insights from institutional and regime theories to develop a theoretical framework to explain “collective institutional entrepreneurship.””
Networks and network resources in technological innovation systems: Towards a conceptual framework for system building (2012, background): “Finally, it was reported that trust among the IBZ members increased over time, resulting in a case of escalated commitment [78]: a key member could convince the less committed IBZ firms to start the joint field test Callux to increase visibility, and additionally influence public awareness.”
Constructing a Climate Change Logic: An Institutional Perspective on the "Tragedy of the Commons" (2013, neutral): “Yet theorization about institutional processes in transnational fields, especially transnational commons, remains in its infancy (Glasbergen et al. 2007, Maguire and Hardy 2006, Wijen and Ansari 2007).”
Research, part of a Special Feature on Resilience Through Multi-scalar Collaboration Surmountable Chasms: Networks and Social Innovation for Resilient Systems (2011, background): “…work with the concept of “distributed agency” or an “actor net” (Garud and Karnoe 2005), “collective institutionalized entrepreneurship” (Möllering 2007, Wijen and Ansari 2007), or “collective action models” (Hargrave and Van de Ven 2006), which emphasize a population level view and the…”
The Time and Space of Materiality in Organizations and the Natural Environment (2013, background): “…environment as merely a context or issue, rather than focusing on its unique attributes, may actually prevent researchers from making the frame-breaking insights needed to reconcile the needs of business with the demands of the natural environment (Maguire & Hardy, 2006; Wijen & Ansari, 2007).”
Institutional work: Taking stock and making it matter (2017, background): “…institutions arguably exert greater influence on social behavior compared to institutions at the maintenance of societal institutions (e.g., Dacin et al., 2010) but that they may need to deploy distinct types of work to create or disrupt them (e.g., Mair & Marti, 2009; Wijen & Ansari, 2007).”
Entrepreneurship in Regulated Markets: Framing Contests and Collective Action to Introduce Pay TV in the U.S. (2014, neutral): “10 1996; King and Soule, 2007; Lawrence et al., 2002; Pacheco et al., 2010; Wijen and Ansari, 2007).”
How actors change institutions: Towards a theory of institutional entrepreneurship (2009, background): “The process of implementing divergent change is also likely to be influenced by field characteristics (Wijen & Ansari, 2007 ), in particular, levels of institutionalization and fragmentation.”
The Emergence of a Standards Market: Multiplicity of Sustainability Standards in the Global Coffee Industry (2012, background): “Some scholars focus on the role of state actors, examining how regulatory institutions emerge in transnational arenas, e.g. the Stockholm Convention (Maguire & Hardy, 2006) and the Kyoto Protocol (Wijen & Ansari, 2007).”
Agency and Institutions: A Review on Institutional Entrepreneurship (2009, background): “To consider other dimensions such as practices (Lounsbury and Crumley, 2007), social status (Battilana, 2006), and material resources (Wijen and Ansari, 2007) will call for new methods, complementary to those that consider actors’ discourse, that focus on actors’ actions and, potentially, cognition.”
Clusters, Chains and Compliance: Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance in Football Manufacturing in South Asia (2010, background): “…entrepreneurship is highly complex and involves large numbers of widely dispersed actors, joint action based on mutual interests may become the way in which these actors overcome collective inaction with the view to transforming existing or creating new institutions (Wijen and Ansari, 2007).”
National Contexts Matter: The Co-Evolution of Sustainability Standards in Global Value Chains (2012, methodology): “Following the advice of Yin (2003), we make use of multiple sources of evidence, based on both qualitative and quantitative data.”
Local Government as Institutional Entrepreneur: Public–Private Collaborative Partnerships in Fostering Regional Entrepreneurship (2018, positive): “The involvement of multiple actors in institutional entrepreneurship has also been noted (Lounsbury & Crumley, 2007; Wijen & Ansari, 2007), and collective and collaborative action has been identified as a key activity undertaken by institutional entrepreneurs (David, Sine & Haveman, 2013).”
Collective action and market formation: An integrative framework (2018, neutral): “First, while scholars have studied the actors and the corresponding actions that contribute to the construction of infrastructure (David et al., 2013; Garud et al., 2002; Lee, 2009; Wijen and Ansari, 2007; Weber et al., 2008), what remains understudied is the nature of these contributions and their ”