Combining participatory action research and emerging ways of collective action to promote institutional change toward social commitment: Groundings, strategies, and implications of an experience.
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DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22604
Abstract: AIMS This study reports the foundations, strategies, and results of an institutional change experience based on the combination of participatory-action-research and new currents of collective mobilization and political participation. It aimed to achieve the institution's… read more here.
Keywords: action research; institutional change; participatory action; collective action ... See more keywords
A theory of cultural revivals
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DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103734
Abstract: Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions? And why do such failures often coincide with cultural movements that glorify the past? We propose a model highlighting the interplay—or lack thereof—between institutional change… read more here.
Keywords: institutional change; theory cultural; cultural revivals; economy ... See more keywords
Digital entrepreneurship and field conditions for institutional change– Investigating the enabling role of cities
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.06.019
Abstract: Digital entrepreneurship may result in institutional turbulence and new initiatives are frequently blocked by vested interest groups who posit superior financial and relational resources. In this p ... read more here.
Keywords: digital entrepreneurship; conditions institutional; change; institutional change ... See more keywords
Institutional Change in Constrained Circumstances: Gender, Resistance, and Critical Actors in the Chilean Executive
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DOI: 10.1017/lap.2020.15
Abstract: ABSTRACT Because gender equality actors rarely have sufficient power to create new institutions, this article asks how they can achieve positive gender change in constrained circumstances when the creation of new rules is not possible.… read more here.
Keywords: institutional change; change; resistance; constrained circumstances ... See more keywords
Legitimacy and institutional change in international organisations: a cognitive approach
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DOI: 10.1017/s0260210517000201
Abstract: Abstract Why are some institutional designs perceived as more legitimate than others, and why is the same institutional design sometimes perceived as legitimacy-enhancing in one setting and not in another? In a world in which… read more here.
Keywords: institutional change; legitimacy institutional; change; model ... See more keywords
Three Short Stories of Progressive Institutional Change
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DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2017.1320503
Abstract: Abstract: The process of institutional change is a fundamental theme in institutional economics. There are multiple avenues for forging institutional change — policies, laws, cultural norms, social movements, and social practices. I analyze three examples… read more here.
Keywords: institutional change; stories progressive; change; three short ... See more keywords
Multiscalar governance and institutional change: critical junctures in European spatial planning
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DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2018.1512894
Abstract: ABSTRACT Change of major social institutions sometimes takes place during relatively compressed periods in which previously relatively stable institutions are transformed. Historical institutionalism and comparative historical analysis refer to these turning points as critical junctures,… read more here.
Keywords: institutional change; analysis; change; spatial planning ... See more keywords
Platforms for institutional change: assessing the potential of livelihood enhancement groups as community entry points in Zambia
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2017.1340434
Abstract: ABSTRACT To address the livelihood problems faced by the poor and vulnerable in Northern Province of Zambia, a novel collective action approach called livelihoods enhancement groups (LEGs) was used as a platform for facilitating research… read more here.
Keywords: institutional change; change; platforms institutional; livelihood ... See more keywords
Analysing institutional change in environmental governance: exploring the concept of ‘institutional work’
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2016.1257423
Abstract: Institutional work focuses on the role of actors in creating, maintaining, or disrupting institutional structures. The concept has its origin in organisational studies. In this paper, we rethink and redefine institutional work to make it… read more here.
Keywords: work; environmental governance; institutional change; institutional work ... See more keywords
A new role for citizens’ initiatives: the difficulties in co-creating institutional change in urban planning
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2018.1436532
Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the institutional work that underlies the attempt to institutionalize a more active role of citizens in urban planning. We draw on a case in which a group of citizens aims… read more here.
Keywords: role citizens; citizens initiatives; institutional change; urban planning ... See more keywords
Exploring Institutional Change in the Context of a Statewide Developmental Education Reform in Florida
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DOI: 10.1080/10668926.2019.1610672
Abstract: ABSTRACT We explore institutional change and organizational learning in higher education in the context of a large-scale reform of developmental education in Florida. We use statewide survey data to examine administrators’ perceptions of the use… read more here.
Keywords: institutional change; context; change; developmental education ... See more keywords