Institutional activism in the early American automobile industry

By Hayagreeva Rao. 2004

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Subfields: Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Analyzing the functional dynamics of technological innovation systems: A scheme of analysis (2008, background): “As is widely acknowledged in organization theory, legitimacy is a prerequisite for the formation of new industries (Rao, 2004) and, we would add, new TISs (cf. Bijker, 1995; Carlsson and Stankiewicz, 1995; Edquist and Johnson, 1997; Hughes, 1983).”
Constructing Markets and Shaping Boundaries: Entrepreneurial Power in Nascent Fields (2009, background): “Thus far, institutional entrepreneurship research has focused on collective actions by which industry groups (Rao, 2004), state actors and nongovernmental organizations (Maguire & Hardy, 2006), corporate elites (Greenwood & Suddaby, 2006), and social movements (Sine & David, 2003) legitimate new org”
Functions in innovation systems: A framework for analysing energy system dynamics and identifying goals for system-building activities by entrepreneurs and policy makers (2008, background): “As is widely acknowledged in organization theory, legitimacy is a prerequisite for the formation of new industries (Rao, 2004) and, we would add, new TIS; the new technology and its proponents need to be considered appropriate and desirable in relation to relevant institutions as judged by relevant ”
Agency, structure, and the dominance of OEMs: Change and stability in the automotive sector (2016, background): “Studies rooted in sociology, which consider ‘institutional fields’ (e.g. Fligstein, 2001; Lounsbury, 2007; Lounsbury and Rao, 2004), have studied mechanisms of change, positing that changes come from fringe actors, and social mechanisms that oblige the dominant actors to change the way work is…”
The emergence and troubled growth of a 'biopower' innovation system in Sweden (2008, background): “As is widely acknowledged in organization theory, legitimacy is a prerequisite for the formation of new industries (Rao, 2004) and, we would add, new TIS.”
‘Legitimation’ and ‘development of positive externalities’: two key processes in the formation phase of technological innovation systems (2008, background): “First, whilst a number of studies on new technologies in general – and renewable energy technologies (see also the contribution by Agterbosch and Breukers in this special issue) and transport fuels in particular – underline the centrality of the process of legitimation (Aldrich and Fiol 1994 ; Deed”
Reasons for Being Selective When Choosing Personnel Selection Procedures (2010, unknown): “Legitimacy concerns can also be addressed in a selection situation if organizations use this situation to promote themselves (Oliver, 1991; Rao, 2004).”