O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar o processo de mudança institucional no campo organizacional, observando esse fenômeno pela emergência de lógica de mercado no campo acadêmico brasileiro. O estudo propõe uma reflexão sobre a mudança institucional em universidades brasileiras, inserida em novo contexto de políticas governamentais baseadas na ideia de “inovação”. Nas últimas décadas o debate internacional sobre o tema da inovação tem cada vez mais inserido a universidade como um agente que contribui para o desenvolvimento econômico. A partir dos anos 2000, verificou-se o surgimento de novas diretrizes nas políticas de ciência e tecnologia no Brasil. Destacam-se entre essas mudanças a reestruturação das fontes de financiamento à pesquisa por meio da criação dos Fundos Setoriais, que visou promover o desenvolvimento de projetos de inovação de acordo com os setores da economia, a Política Industrial, Tecnológica e de Comércio Exterior (PITCE), a Lei de Inovação e o Plano de Ação de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (PACTI). Embora essas políticas fossem direcionadas para a indústria, constatou-se que novas práticas começaram a se difundir no campo acadêmico. Foi observado o rápido crescimento do número de depósitos de patentes, o envolvimento de pesquisadores em estruturas de interface universidade-empresa e a difusão de empresas fundadas por cientistas. Esse fato indicou a difusão de práticas orientadas por lógica de mercado no campo, mesmo sem um projeto empreendedor. Diferentemente dos argumentos institucionalistas que defendem que a mudança de lógicas no campo ocorre pela atuação de empreendedores institucionais, constatou-se que a inserção de lógica de mercado no campo estava associada à mudança na disponibilidade de recursos. Os cientistas assumiram práticas orientadas por lógicas alternativas na medida em que identificaram recursos para sustentá-las. O modelo de análise proposto neste estudo destaca a importância do conceito de ecologia nos estudos sobre a mudança institucional. A análise utilizou dados secundários, como estatísticas oficiais, documentos e estudos prévios. Também foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas como técnica de coleta e análise de conteúdo categorial como técnica de análise. / The objective of this study was to analyze the process of institutional change in the organizational field, observing this phenomenon by the emergence of market logic in the Brazilian academic field. The study proposes a reflection on institutional change in Brazilian universities, inserted in a new context of government policies based on the idea of "innovation". In the last decades the international debate on the theme of innovation has increasingly inserted the university as an agent that contributes to economic development. From the 2000s onwards, the emergence of new guidelines in science and technology policies in Brazil. Of note among these changes are the restructuring of sources of research funding through the creation of Sectorial Funds, which aimed to promote the development of innovation projects according to the sectors of economy, Industrial, Technological and Foreign Trade Policy (PITCE ), The Innovation Law and the Plan of Action for Science, Technology and Innovation (PACTI). Although these policies were directed towards the industry, it was found that new practices began to spread in the academic field. The rapid growth in the number of patent deposits, the involvement of researchers in university-enterprise interface structures and the diffusion of companies founded by scientists were observed. This fact indicated the diffusion of practices guided by market logic in the field, even without an entrepreneurial project. Unlike the institutionalist arguments that the change of logics in the field occurs by the action of institutional entrepreneurs, it was verified that the insertion of market logic in the field was associated to the change in the availability of resources. Scientists have assumed practices guided by alternative logics insofar as they have identified the resources to sustain them. The analysis model proposed in this study highlights the importance of the concept of ecology in studies on institutional change. The analysis used secondary data such as official statistics, documents and previous studies. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted as a technique for collecting and analyzing categorial content as a technique for analysis.

Este estudo versa sobre a situação problemática em torno da produção de tabaco com o intuito de compreender as mudanças no cenário da fumicultura a partir das críticas e das transformações no ambiente, sob o aporte das discussões institucionalistas. Diante disso, o objetivo desse estudo é analisar as críticas e as transformações em torno da produção do tabaco e as justificações, com vistas a compreender se essas promoveram mudanças ou reafirmações institucionais. Primeiramente buscou-se identificar os dispositivos das críticas locais e globais, bem como as transformações que geram o ambiente de incerteza ao qual está inserida a fumicultura atualmente. Para isso foram realizadas entrevistas com 28 famílias agricultoras produtoras de tabaco e com representantes de entidades envolvidas com o setor, que associadas à coleta de dados nos meios digitais, foram analisadas a partir da compreensão teórica e metodológica da Sociologia da Crítica e do Institucionalismo de Veblen. Ao estabelecer a correlação entre as críticas da rede antitabaco e dos agricultores fumicultores, observou-se que há descontinuidades nas gramáticas, as quais provocam o distanciamento de atores que poderiam atuar conjuntamente em contrariedade às ações das empresas fumageiras, visto que um dos principais atores que a rede antitabaco busca proteger com esse movimento é o agricultor familiar. Nesse contexto de incertezas em que os agricultores vêem-se compelidos a refletir sobre suas ações, foi possível identificar as respostas às críticas e, assim, compreender quais são as instituições que vêm sustentando a fumicultura no Rio Grande do Sul, como segundo objetivo específico. Como um dos principais resultados desta análise, observou-se que as instituições não são acionadas separadamente, sendo interligadas em forma do que chamamos de uma rede institucional, pois quando uma das interpretações é questionada, as outras são acionadas como fundamento para dizer que são esses argumentos que justificam a produção de tabaco para essas famílias. Diante desse cenário, o terceiro objetivo buscou analisar se esses movimentos promoveram mudanças ou reafirmação das instituições que vêm sustentando a cadeia produtiva do tabaco. Analisando as respostas da rede em defesa do tabaco centralizada na ABIFUMO, foram identificadas mudanças nas ações das empresas fumageiras, principalmente de forma semântica, a partir de operações midiáticas e alianças com órgãos governamentais e organismos internacionais, de forma a requalificar o SIPT e, assim, reafirmando as instituições que sustentam a fumicultura. Nesse contexto, os agricultores familiares produtores de tabaco reagem de forma heterogênea às críticas e aos estímulos do ambiente. Corroborando com as reafirmações das empresas, um grupo de produtores vem transformando a produção de acordo com as exigências de qualificação das empresas fumageiras. Por outro lado, identificou-se outros produtores que rumam no sentido da não mudança, mantendo a produção de tabaco mesmo com o descontentamento em relação a ela. Por fim, algumas famílias modificaram suas interpretações e condutas sobre o tabaco, categorizadas em três grupos que apresentam trajetórias diferentes de conduta. Diante do que se apresenta como uma mudança na conduta das empresas fumageiras como forma de manutenção da cadeia produtiva do tabaco, no sentido de diminuir o número de produtores em busca dos mais qualificados para as novas exigências, muitos produtores de tabaco vêm sendo excluídos dessa cadeia produtiva, necessitando encontrar novas maneiras de sobreviver no meio rural. É nesse ponto que se torna frutífero para os processos de desenvolvimento rural, que a academia e as instâncias governamentais compreendam a realidade a partir de como os atores a interpretam, mudando as suas estratégias heterogêneas e desconexas que vêm promovendo o distanciamento e a descrença do agricultor com relação ao governo, mas aproximando as gramáticas e, assim, compreendendo as reais necessidades dos agricultores familiares. / This study deals about the problematic situation around tobacco production in order to understand the changes in the scenario of tobacco farming from the critiques and changes in the environment, under the contribution of institutionalist discussions. Therefore, the objective of this study is to analyze the critiques and transformations around tobacco production and the justifications, in order to understand if these promoted institutional changes or reaffirmations. Firstly, we sought to identify the mechanisms of local and global critique, as well as the transformations that generate the uncertainty environment to which tobacco farming is currently inserted. For this purpose, interviews were conducted with 28 tobacco-producing families and representatives of entities involved with the sector, which were associated with the collection of data in digital media and were analyzed from the theoretical and methodological understanding of the Sociology of Critique and Institutionalism of Veblen. When establishing the correlation between the critiques of the anti-tobacco network and the tobacco farmers, it was observed that there are discontinuities in the grammars, which cause the distancing of actors who could act together in opposition to the actions of the tobacco companies, since one of the main actors that the anti-tobacco network seeks to protect with this movement is the family farmer. In this context of uncertainties in which farmers are compelled to reflect on their actions, it was possible to identify the answers to the critiques and, thus, to understand which are the institutions that have been supporting tobacco growing in Rio Grande do Sul, as a second specific objective. As one of the main results of this analysis, it was observed that institutions are not triggered separately, being interconnected in the form of what we call an institutional network, because when one of the interpretations is questioned, the others are triggered as a basis for saying that they are Arguments justifying the production of tobacco for these families. Given this scenario, the third objective sought to analyze whether these movements promoted changes or reaffirmation of the institutions that have been supporting the tobacco production chain. Analyzing the network's responses to tobacco control centralized at ABIFUMO, changes were identified in the actions of tobacco companies, mainly in a semantic way, from media operations and alliances with government agencies and international organizations, in order to requalify the SIPT and, thus, , Reaffirming the institutions that support tobacco farming. In this context, family farmers producing tobacco react heterogeneously to criticism and environmental stimuli. Corroborating with the reaffirmation of the companies, a group of producers has been transforming the production according to the qualification requirements of the tobacco companies. On the other hand, other producers were identified who are moving towards non-change, maintaining tobacco production even with dissatisfaction with it. Finally, some families modified their interpretations and behaviors on the tobacco, categorized in three groups that present different trajectories of conduct. Faced with what is presented as a change in the behavior of tobacco companies as a way of maintaining the tobacco production chain, in order to reduce the number of producers in search of the most qualified for the new requirements, many tobacco producers have been excluded from this chain Need to find new ways of surviving in rural areas. It is at this point that it becomes fruitful for the processes of rural development that the academy and government agencies understand the reality from how the actors interpret it, changing their heterogeneous and disconnected strategies that have been promoting distancing and disbelief of the farmer With respect to government, but approaching grammars and thus understanding the real needs of family farmers.

This thesis presents an interpretive case study of a Malaysian Government-linked Company (GLC) namely Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) which has recently implemented a business reengineering programme. This change programme was imposed by MAHB's parent company as part of a wider government reform agenda to address GLCs' 'underperformance' post-privatisation. Since long-term business value has become an increasingly important goal, MAHB has attempted to enhance its performance through various change initiatives which have led to institutional change. The thesis analyses the role of situational logics in the context of this institutional change, drawing on the situated logics perspective developed by ter Bogt and Scapens (2014), together with insights from the institutional logics and practice variations literature. Using semi-structured interviews, documentary analysis and observation, the study provides a comparative analysis of three subsidiaries and their relationship with the Finance Division's accounting change. The thesis recognises there are diverse situational logics that different groups of organisational actors apply in their day-to-day activities and change initiatives, emerging from a complex interplay of contextual and historical forces. This recognition enables us to understand how the three subsidiaries and the Finance Division of MAHB have differently interpreted the notion of performance improvement by applying these diverse situational logics. It sheds light on the issue of how accounting change can give rise to different responses. While the different responses present a theoretical puzzle-why there are different responses to accounting change-this thesis delineates how situational logics shape organisational responses by relating them to the underlying taken-for-granted assumptions of different groups of organisational actors. The thesis shows that the existence of diverse (or rather multiple) situational logics has led to multiple responses from different groups of organisational actors in the different parts of MAHB. The thesis also shows how multiple situational logics can co-exist or conflict and how this is contingent upon the compatibility and/or incompatibility of different interests at the intra-organisational level. Issues concerning multiple changes and multiple responses to institutional pressures, competing interests between public service and profitability, and the interplay of acceptance and resistance are all discussed in the thesis. Using the situational logics perspective, the thesis contributes to understanding the complexity of the ongoing processes of both the organisational change and accounting change at the intra-organisational level. This perspective enables us to understand the different courses of action and practices within the different parts of MAHB due to their situated functionalities. The thesis concludes by discussing the implications of the research findings and possible directions for future research.

<p>Denna uppsats behandlar politisk förändring i svenska kommuner. Fokus är New Public Management-reformer och specifikt har andelen kommunal barnomsorg på entreprenad studerats. Studien är kvantitativ och består av datamaterial över Sveriges 290 kommuner som samlats av Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) under perioden 1998-2005. Teoretiskt utgår uppsatsen från en nyinstitutionell teori. Fyra hypoteser om politisk förändring i svenska kommuner har konstruerats och sedan operationaliserats genom sex variabler; politisk majoritet (blå/röd), kommunstorlek, skatteunderlag och andel barn- och äldreomsorg på entreprenad. Dessa har sedan analyserats genom en regressionsanalys och slutsatsen är att ideologi som variabel inte inverkar på en kommuns reformbenägenhet, utan visar främst att stigberoende, isomorphism och kommuners ekonomiska situation är avgörande för kommuner ska välja att lägga ut barnomsorg på entreprenad.</p>

This thesis aims at providing an insight into one of the most influential ecological change efforts of our time, culminating with the banning of the use of chloroflourocarbons, CFCs, conceded as being linked to one of the most severe threats to our ecosystem, the depletion of the earth's ozone layer. This change effort, extending over a quarter century, is analyzed, drawing on the responses of three unrelated industries directly affected by the ban. As this thesis exposes, industry can play something of a dual role, on the one hand as a substantial contributor to ecological problems and on the other, as a promising source of solutions to such problems. A greater understanding of forces that impede or propel industrial change toward sustainable practices will enhance the capacities of both industrial actors and policymakers to design policies, industrial processes, and products aimed at promoting environmental sustainability. The change efforts carried out in three different, real and expanding industrial contexts, namely, refrigerator manufacture, circuit board assembly and furniture foam processing, are addressed. It is hoped that this thesis offers researchers, managers, policy makers, environmentalists and others directly interested the insight it sets out to provide into the workings of change towards sustainability in larger industrial systems. / <p>Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2000</p>

This study develops an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for understanding institutional change and resistance to change towards sustainability. The research rests on two leading theories of change within the social and ecological sciences: the New Institutionalism and Panarchy theory. A theoretical framework integrating insights from the two theories is applied in an analysis of the development of the Town of Caledon’s mineral resources policies. The research suggests that institutional change and inertia are interconnected and interdependent and, depending on the case and context, they may interact with each other across spatial and temporal scales. There may be overlap in the emergence of pressures for institutional inertia and change across temporal and spatial scales, and both institutional change and inertia may be present when opportunities arise for renegotiation of the “rules of the game”. Results show that the two theories share many concepts (e.g., thresholds or tipping points, fast and slow moving variables, etc.) to aid in understanding the dynamics of institutional and ecological realms. Moreover, the integrated theoretical framework can help to explain the dynamics of institutional systems in a way that overcomes the limitations in Panarchy and the New Institutionalism theories by themselves. Key concepts within Panarchy theory (e.g., regime shifts, etc.) complement the New Institutionalism’s ability to capture important contextual factors influencing institutional change and inertia, and help to overcome the current limitation in its capacity to explain the nonlinear, multi-scalar dynamics of institutional systems. In turn, key concepts within the New Institutionalism (e.g., uncertainty, etc.) complement and enrich Panarchy theory’s capacity to illustrate the social and economic dimensions of institutional dynamics. Results of the case analysis demonstrate that a range of overlapping, historic and immediate, local-to-provincial factors (e.g., socioeconomic costs, uncertainty, path dependent effects, etc.) and institutional elements (e.g., interests and values, power and resources, issues of fit, etc.) drove institutional change and inertia in the development of Caledon’s mineral resources policies. The slow moving institutional variables in Caledon’s case (core Town, industry and provincial government values and interests) were perhaps the greatest determinants of institutional change and resistance to change towards sustainability. The story of the development of Caledon’s mineral resources policies, then, is about the resilience and resistance efforts of a small Town committed to maintaining core community values under the constraints of a resilient and resistant, ecologically destructive and inequitable institutional system.

This study develops an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for understanding institutional change and resistance to change towards sustainability. The research rests on two leading theories of change within the social and ecological sciences: the New Institutionalism and Panarchy theory. A theoretical framework integrating insights from the two theories is applied in an analysis of the development of the Town of Caledon’s mineral resources policies. The research suggests that institutional change and inertia are interconnected and interdependent and, depending on the case and context, they may interact with each other across spatial and temporal scales. There may be overlap in the emergence of pressures for institutional inertia and change across temporal and spatial scales, and both institutional change and inertia may be present when opportunities arise for renegotiation of the “rules of the game”. Results show that the two theories share many concepts (e.g., thresholds or tipping points, fast and slow moving variables, etc.) to aid in understanding the dynamics of institutional and ecological realms. Moreover, the integrated theoretical framework can help to explain the dynamics of institutional systems in a way that overcomes the limitations in Panarchy and the New Institutionalism theories by themselves. Key concepts within Panarchy theory (e.g., regime shifts, etc.) complement the New Institutionalism’s ability to capture important contextual factors influencing institutional change and inertia, and help to overcome the current limitation in its capacity to explain the nonlinear, multi-scalar dynamics of institutional systems. In turn, key concepts within the New Institutionalism (e.g., uncertainty, etc.) complement and enrich Panarchy theory’s capacity to illustrate the social and economic dimensions of institutional dynamics. Results of the case analysis demonstrate that a range of overlapping, historic and immediate, local-to-provincial factors (e.g., socioeconomic costs, uncertainty, path dependent effects, etc.) and institutional elements (e.g., interests and values, power and resources, issues of fit, etc.) drove institutional change and inertia in the development of Caledon’s mineral resources policies. The slow moving institutional variables in Caledon’s case (core Town, industry and provincial government values and interests) were perhaps the greatest determinants of institutional change and resistance to change towards sustainability. The story of the development of Caledon’s mineral resources policies, then, is about the resilience and resistance efforts of a small Town committed to maintaining core community values under the constraints of a resilient and resistant, ecologically destructive and inequitable institutional system.

Social movement is the primary agency to enact social change, But, might not be achieved in a short time. After 1980s, the third sector in Taiwan has grown up quickly. Following different social movements, the sector has grown several organizational fields, such as environmental protection, the elderly welfare and the disable organizational fields. Reviewing the changes in organization fields above, they are enacted by social movement and organizations. The study focuses on ¡§non-profit disable organizational field¡¨ to discuss the change from ¡§handicapped¡¨ to ¡§disabled.¡¨ Furthermore, the new organizational form ¡§social enterprise¡¨ is emerging in this field recently. The study also explore the emerging process under the historical context in the field. Based on the institutional theory, The study focus on the contest of institutional logics in the field. Conducting the historical narrative approach, the study analysis archival material and interviews and divide the changing process in to 4 stages. The first stage (1949-1979) and second stage (1980-1990) were dominated by ¡§charity and relief¡¨ institutional logic. However, the social movements organized by the handicap were framing another new logic ¡§social model¡¨. In the third stage (1991-1998) the contest of two logics was much significant. Finally, the ¡§social model¡¨ logical won the contest and become the dominated logics in the forth stage (1999-2009). The study also revels that social enterprise is the product of new institutional logic. The study reveals ¡§social enterprise¡¨ is the by-product of institutional change in the non-profit disable organizational field. The study also discusses, following the institutional change, how the new actor introduce management model to change the disabled sheltered workshop becoming social enterprise.

How do reflexive political forms within organizations and the design of innovation processes co-evolve? This paper focuses on emerging reflexive forms of power and authority, considered as regimes beyond pure domination (Clegg et al. 2006: 330 f.). We assume that preserving freedom and initiative of individuals, while not undermining the power of organizational top elites, is particularly essential for business success of organisations operating in high-tech, innovative sectors. Up to now, however, neither the development of related political forms within organisations, nor their intertwinements with innovation processes have been very well understood. Therefore this paper studies the linkages between innovation processes and reflexive political forms of organizations. More specifically, the paper aims to explore in detail the contested, antagonistic and paradoxical processes an organisation must undertake in designing a reflexive political form, a “political hybrid” (Clegg et al. 2006: 333), conducive to innovation capabilities and innovation processes in high-tech companies. Theoretical reasoning is underlined by first insights from a longitudinal case study, being part of a comparative case study program, focusing on the co-evolution of political forms and innovation process design in a SME in southern Germany. The paper contributes to the debate on power and innovation in several respects. First, we will propose a dynamic approach to exploring change and development of political forms within organisations. Most of the literature concerned with different political forms and political regimes within organisations is still centred on static typologies and its comparison (Clegg et al. 2006: 332). Second, we will examine the often neglected, contradictory processes shaping hybrid political forms in organisations. Third, we will conceptually and empirically explore linkages between innovation processes and emerging political hybrids within organizations. This study is, to the best of our knowledge, a research desideratum both in the literature on power and the literature on innovation processes (e.g. Hage and Meeus 2006; Poole and Van De Ven 2004; Vigoda-Gadot and Drory 2006; Clegg et al. 2006).

Even before the current economic meltdown, waves of downsizing, starting in the late 1970s, had swept corporate America, eroding workers’ expectations of economic security. But not only did downsizing become more prevalent during this period; its basic nature changed. Previously, firms had cut jobs temporarily, to adjust the size of their workforce during a downturn. Since the late 70s, firms have increasingly cut jobs in both good and bad times, in order to boost stock price. My dissertation examines the inter-group power dynamics underlying the transformation of workforce downsizing as a shareholder-value strategy. Examining both downsizing announcements from more than 700 leading U.S. corporations between 1981 and 2006, and actual implementation of the announced downsizing plans, I find at work in the process a shift in ideology, from an emphasis on corporate growth and conglomeration to an emphasis on profitability and shareholder value, an ideology that both reflects and intensifies the growing influence of shareholders over firms and the declining role of labor. My first empirical chapter examines the role of institutional investors and shareholder-value-oriented managers in the transformation. The second empirical chapter examines the potential resistance from labor unions and shows how the anti-union stance of the public policy regime in the 1980s weakened unions’ power to resist. The last empirical chapter examines the role of investors, unions, and executives in the implementation of announced downsizing plans and demonstrates the contested nature of the implementation process. Together, these three chapters illustrate the class politics simmering under the surface of the acceptance of downsizing for shareholder-value maximization, and emphasize the role of agency and power, as constructed by particular institutional logics, not only in promoting but also resisting the process of institutional change. / Sociology