The question of how institutions begin to change has become of central concern among institutional scholars in recent years. A growing body of scholarly work has begun to shed light on how institutions begin to decline and become replaced by other institutional forms and practices in a variety of contexts. Much of this scholarly research has examined change in broader, field level institutions ...

This paper investigates conceptually the institutional change process and innovation underpinning the knowledge-based regional development from the point of view of institutional entrepreneurship. The main aim is to raise institutional entrepreneurship among the debated concepts in regional development studies. The paper sets out to discuss the following question: What kind of conceptual framew...

In this paper I develop the idea of institutional conflict carried out in proxy by organizations representing the institutions. In the organizational proxy battles studied here, social movement organizations attempt to simultaneously delegitimize the targeted corporation as well as the institution which it is taken to represent. I further our understanding of institutional change by identifying...

At the Berlin MACE (Modern Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe) Conference in January 2007, I offered some general thoughts on the crafting of institutional arrangements to further the economic transformations now underway in Central and Eastern Europe. In that paper I observed that many countries are now in the “third wave” of institutional change [Bromley, 2007]. The first wave began du...

Abstract This essay explores structural changes in practices through a convergence between particular version of the institutional logics approach theory and my own account social practices. Part one presents these approaches as contemporary versions idea that objective, or common, contentful orientations govern The discussion elucidates practice organizations arrays such how they shape human a...