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Umweltbeeinflussung durch Events? Institutionalisierungsarbeit und feldkonfigurierende Veranstaltungen in organisationalen Feldern

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Der Beitrag untersucht zwei neue Konzepte in der Neoinstitutionalistischen Organisationstheorie: Institutionalisierungsarbeit (Institutional Work) und feldkonfigurierende Veranstaltungen (Field-Configuring Events). Diese Theorieströmung vollzieht damit eine praxistheoretische Wende und gesteht Unternehmen mehr Möglichkeiten der Umweltbeeinflussung zu als der bisherige neoinstitutionalistische Determinismus, ohne jedoch in den methodologischen Individualismus zu verfallen. Der Beitrag untersucht kritisch die Quellen und Hintergründe dieser Theorieentwicklung und kommt zu dem vorsichtig optimistischen Fazit, dass es für die Betriebswirtschaftslehre ein theoretischer und methodischer Gewinn ist, Management als Institutionalisierungsarbeit zu verstehen.

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The paper discusses two new concepts in Neoinstitutional Organization Theory: Institutional Work and Field-Configuring Events. This stream of institutional theorizing moves toward a practice-theoretical turn. It grants firms more opportunities for influencing their institutional environments than the prior neoinstitutional determinism, but without adopting methodological individualism. The paper analyzes critically the sources and background of this theoretical development and reaches the moderately optimistic conclusion that Business Administration will benefit theoretically and methodologically from understanding management as Institutional Work.

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Der Autor dankt Prof. Dr. Jörg Sydow, Prof. Dr. Peter Walgenbach, denen, die beim Habilitationsvortrag am Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin mitdiskutiert haben, und dem anonymen Gutachter der zfbf für wertvolle Hinweise und Anregungen. Die Arbeit an dem Artikel wurde unterstützt durch das Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung und durch Daten aus einem Projekt der VolkswagenStiftung (AZ II/80 308).

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Möllering, G. Umweltbeeinflussung durch Events? Institutionalisierungsarbeit und feldkonfigurierende Veranstaltungen in organisationalen Feldern. Schmalenbachs Z betriebswirtsch Forsch 63, 458–484 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03372849

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