How actors change institutions: Towards a theory of institutional entrepreneurship

By Julie Battilana, B. Leca, Eva Boxenbaum. 2009

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

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Inclusive Business at the Base of the Pyramid: The Role of Embeddedness for Enabling Social Innovations (2018, positive): “Our analysis, therefore, confirms the dynamic, bi-directional relationship between organizational action and performance and its social context (Maguire et al. 2004; Battilana et al. 2009).”
Micro-Institutional Affordances and Strategies of Radical Innovation (2011, background): “Whereas the institutional entrepreneurship literature has been criticized for over-voluntaristic assumptions regarding agency (Battilana et al., 2009), our analysis shows that innovating actors were not ‘disembedded heroes,’ but highly contextualized actors.”
INNOVATION PLATFORMS: EXPERIENCES WITH THEIR INSTITUTIONAL EMBEDDING IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT (2015, background): “Such an ‘institutional entrepreneur’ can reframe paradigm, engage in lobbying, build coalitions and seek resources to enable structural change in AR4D agenda setting and engagement mechanisms (Battilana et al., 2009).”
Unpacking the Institutional Complexity in Adoption of CSR Practices in Multinational Enterprises (2016, background): “…about CSR. Exposure to diverse institutional templates implies that the firm will not be able to conform to all of them (Kostova et al., 2008) and thus will be less likely to take any particular institutional arrangement for granted (e.g., Battilana et al., 2009; Greenwood and Suddaby, 2011).”
Theorizing the Triple Helix model: Past, present, and future (2020, background): “Institutional entrepreneurs refer to the actors who not only initiate diverse changes in the institutional environment but also actively participate in the implementation of such changes (Battilana et al. 2009).”
The Liabilities of Origin: An Emerging Economy Perspective on the Costs of Doing Business Abroad (2010, neutral): “Furthermore, a constant refrain in this research stream has been that peripheral and low-status organizations can often be found to have initiated divergent institutional change (Battilana et al., 2009).”
The creation of knowledge: local building, global accessing and economic development—toward an agenda (2014, background): “The authors shed light on the institutional processes required to mobilize situated forms of knowledge and the important bridging functions of so-called ‘institutional entrepreneurs’ (Maguire et al., 2004; Battilana et al., 2009).”
Social Entrepreneurship: Why We Don't Need a New Theory and How We Move Forward From Here (2010, background): “Interactions between the environment and individual activities are the focus of investigations into the tensions between the resistance to change that is typical of institutions and the innovative drive inherent to entrepreneurship (i.e., the paradox of embedded agency: Battilana et al., 2009).”
Beyond Constraining and Enabling: Toward New Microfoundations for Institutional Theory (2017, positive): “Such attempts take many forms but broadly follow the idea that institutions constrain but also enable action (Giddens, 1984), and much of this research can be seen as studying the enabling conditions for change (Battilana & D ’ Aunno, 2009; Battilana et al., 2009).”
The Role of Analogy in the Institutionalization of Sustainability Reporting (2010, background): “Institutional entrepreneurs must shepherd their fledgling proto-institutions through this process, where vested interests, power disparities, and social norms all converge to impede change (Battilana et al. 2009).”