The relationship between institutional change and entrepreneurship is poorly understood. We build the theory in this area by tracing institutional change in the US electric power industry over a 40-year period. Our analysis shows that environmental jolts mobilize actors to reformulate institutions, resulting in increased entrepreneurial opportunity. When the institutional environment is stable,...

We prove an institutional version of Tarski’s elementary chain theorem applicable to a whole plethora of ‘first-orderaccessible’ logics, which are, roughly speaking, logics whose sentences can be constructed from atomic formulae by means of classical first-order connectives and quantifiers. These include the unconditional equational, positive, ð [ Þ0n and full first-order logics, as well as les...

Recently, a number of inbreeding cases have surfaced that fuelled public criticism recruitment practices and the lack mobility in Swedish higher education sector. This study focuses on at universities, particularly divergence between what seems to be practice hiring internal candidates policy aiming increasing mobility. The empirical material comprises 14 interviews with heads departments selec...

In unsettled fields with multiple ideal-typical institutional logics, why do organizations tend to weaken or conform to prevalent logic order? We argue that prestige –defined as a tribute paid by field members to a select few with valued distinctive traits– plays a determinant role in explaining institutional heterodoxy (i.e., the choice to stop instantiating dominant logics or start instantiat...

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...

We draw from theories of institutions and collective identities to present a threefold framework of institutional change—involving institutional logics, resources, and social actors—that furthers our understanding of the mitigation of corruption. Those social actors intent on reforming corruption function as institutional entrepreneurs, and their success depends both on articulating an anticorr...