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‘Healing the scars of history’: Projects, skills and field strategies in institutional entrepreneurship
journal contribution
posted on 2007-07-10, 13:15 authored by Markus Perkmann, Andre SpicerWe explore what institutional entrepreneurs do to propagate new organizational forms. Our
findings are derived from a longitudinal study of the ‘Euroregion’, an organizational form used by
local authorities situated close to European borders for co-ordinating policies across borders. We
find that the institutional entrepreneurs behind the Euroregion engaged in several types of
institution-building projects, with a changing focus over time. While the initial emphasis was on
interactional projects, this was followed by a focus on technical projects and finally cultural
projects. The skills the institutional entrepreneurs deployed changed accordingly. While in a first
phase predominantly political skills were used, later analytical skills and finally cultural skills
were added. Furthermore, the institutional entrepreneurs propagated the organizational form by
switching their institution-building projects between different fields. We interpret these findings
by outlining a process theory of institutional entrepreneurship that conceptualises the institutional
entrepreneur in light of its development as an innovating organization.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Citation
Perkmann, M. and Spicer, A., 2007. ‘Healing the scars of history’: Projects, skills and field strategies in institutional entrepreneurship. Organization Studies, 28(7), pp. 1101-1122Publisher
© Walter de Gruyter & CoPublication date
2007Notes
This article was published in the journal, Organization Studies. The definite version of this paper will appear in Organization Studies (special issue on Institutional Entrepreneurship, 2007).ISSN
0170-8406Language
- en