Towards a concrete model of theorization processes in institutional innovation

Mélodie Cartel, Sylvain Colombero and Eva Boxenbaum ()
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Mélodie Cartel: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management
Sylvain Colombero: EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management
Eva Boxenbaum: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CBS - Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen]

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Abstract: How do innovations become institutionalized? Central to institutionalization is the legitimation of an innovation. Legitimation involves a process of theorization whereby the innovation's promoters conceptualize chains of cause and effects that encapsulate the properties of an innovation (Strang & Meyer, 1993). While rhetorical or discursive processes have been studied extensively, only scant attention has been paid to the role of material artifacts in theorization processes. We explore in this paper the role of material artifacts in shaping theorization processes. Our empirical analysis is multimodal and focuses on concrete as a new building material. We examine early exemplars of concrete buildings.

Keywords: theorization; institutionalization; legitimacy; concrete; construction; exemplars (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09-22
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Published in 2nd International Conference on Visuality, Materiality, Multimodality, Copenhagen Business School, Sep 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark

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