Bridging Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Creation of New Organizational Forms: A Multilevel Model

Paul Tracey (), Nelson Phillips () and Owen Jarvis ()
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Paul Tracey: Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, United Kingdom
Nelson Phillips: Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
Owen Jarvis: The Aspire Foundation, London EC1V 1NQ, United Kingdom

Organization Science, 2011, vol. 22, issue 1, 60-80

Abstract: The question of how new organizational forms are created remains an unsolved problem in new institutional theory. We argue that one important way that new organizational forms emerge is through a process of bridging institutional entrepreneurship , which involves an institutional entrepreneur combining aspects of established institutional logics to create a new type of organization underpinned by a new, hybrid logic. Building on an in-depth case study of a social enterprise in the United Kingdom, we present a model of the institutional work required for this type of institutional entrepreneurship. The model highlights the multilevel nature of bridging institutional entrepreneurship, showing that it entails institutional work at the micro-, meso-, and macrolevels. The study contributes to the literature by examining an important way that institutional entrepreneurs create new organizational forms; shedding light on the relationship between individual, organizational, and societal level institutional processes; and exploring the relationship between entrepreneurship and institutional entrepreneurship.

Keywords: institutional entrepreneurship; institutional logic; institutional work; organizational form; social entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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