Power and Politics in Different Change Discourses
status: published
A curated debate: on using "Templates" in qualitative research
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One of the raging debates in organization study concerns the use of “templates” in qualitative research. This curated debate brings together many of the players in that debate, who make statements of position relative to the issues involved and trade accusations and counter-accusations about statements they have made that in their view have been mi...
Sowing the seeds of failure : organizational identity dynamics in new venture pivoting
New ventures in nascent markets often pivot while still developing their organizational identity. A strong identity helps attract investors and employees and pivoting helps pursue new opportunities. How do they interact? To illuminate this process, we conduct an in-depth longitudinal field study of a new venture developing a technology to transform...
Design archetype utility for understanding and analyzing the governance of contemporary national sport organizations
status: published
Imprinting beyond the founding phase: how sedimented imprints develop over time
In this study, we go back to some of the fundamental ideas of Selznick and Stinchcombe about how organizations bear a lasting imprint of their founding context, and about how characteristics shaped during founding are coherently carried forward. To do so, we draw on an ethnography of a social venture where the entrepreneurs left soon after founding...
Imprinting beyond the founding phase : how sedimented imprints develop over time
In this study, we build on the foundational observations of Selznick and Stinchcombe that organizations bear the lasting imprint of their founding context and explore how characteristics shaped during founding are coherently carried forward through time. To do so, we draw on an ethnography of a social venture where the entrepreneurs left soon after...
Identity co-formation in an emerging industry: forging organizational distinctiveness and industry coherence through sen...
We inductively studied the sensemaking and sensegiving processes used by industry founders in the co‐formation of organizational and industry identities in the emerging industry of Service Design. Our findings illustrate how the sensemaking and sensegiving processes that revolved around the new “Service Design” label allowed the two sets of industr...
Organizational settlements: theorizing how organizations respond to institutional complexity
Research on hybrid organizations and institutional complexity commonly depicts the presence of multiple logics within organizations as an exceptional situation. In this essay, we argue that all organizations routinely adhere to multiple institutional logics. Institutional complexity only arises episodically, when organizations embrace a newly salie...
Managing the consequences of organizational stigmatization: identity work in a social enterprise
In this inductive study, we shift the focus of stigma research inside organizational boundaries by examining its relationship with organizational identity. To do so, we draw on the case of Keystone, a social enterprise in the East of England that became stigmatized after it initiated a program of support for a group of migrants in its community. Ke...
Institutional imperatives versus emergent dynamics: a case study on continuous change in higher education
Published in Higher Education
This qualitative case study examines continuous change in a higher education organization (HEO). Both real time and retrospective data covering a 6-year period of the case were collected. The findings suggest that, in order to meet institutional imperatives the HEO defined several managerial and academic domains when the internationalization proces...
