Arts: Framing change

Attitude Change in Competitive Framing Environments? Open/ClosedMindedness, Framing Effects, and Climate Change

Framing scholarship on policy issues has primarily focused on how competitive message environments alter framing effects or how individual differences moderate the impact of frames. This study combines both of these focal areas by examining how individual open/closed-mindedness moderates framing effects about climate change within competitive and noncompetitive framing contexts. Contrary to pre...

Framing Innovation Policy for Transformative Change: Innovation Policy 3.0

The Integrated Expressive Arts and Humanities : Coping with Curriculum Change

Cognitive Underpinnings of Institutional Persistence and Change: a Framing Perspective

We integrate the predictions of prospect theory, the threat-rigidity hypothesis, and institutional theory to suggest how patterns of institutional persistence and change depend on whether decision makers view environmental shifts as potential opportunities for or threats to gaining legitimacy. We argue that in the event that decision makers face ambiguity in their reading of the environment, th...

Framing Change: A Comparative Case Study of IT-enabled Organizational Change

This paper examines how two organizations used information technologies (IT) to introduce the same type of IT-enabled organizational change with radically different outcomes. Building on a grounded theory comparative analysis of the two cases, the paper develops a process model of IT-enabled organizational change centered on the interaction of two factors: 1) the templates (i.e. cognitive frame...