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| Author: | McInerney, P-B. |
| Title: | Showdown at Kykuit: Field-configuring events as loci for conventionalizing accounts |
| Journal: | Journal of Management Studies
2008 : SEP, VOL. 45:6, p. 1089-1116 |
| Index terms: | new enterprise entrepreneurship accounts theories |
| Freeterms: | events |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A theory of accounts (hereafter as: t-of-accts.) is developed as a way to understand a mechanism by which institutional entrepreneurs aim to shape fields and influence the institutions governing them. Actors produce and distribute justified accounts and attempt to persuade powerful actors in the field to adopt them as conventions. Thus, field-configuring event/s (FCE/s) can be understood as loci for conventionalizing accounts. The t-of-accts. and field-level change is illustrated with a case study of a turning point FCE during which competing institutional entrepreneurs in the field of 'non-profit technology assistance providers' present alternative accounts. Successful institutional entrepreneurship comes from recognizing political opportunities etc. |
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