Strategic renewal in institutional contexts

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444 ELIZABETH JACOMIJN KLITSIE
This dissertation uses mixed methods to increase academic and managerial understanding of the drivers
and performance effects of institutional entrepreneurship at micro- and macro-levels of analysis. Study 1
is a macro-level study containing a review and typology of different streams of institutional theory. Study Strategic renewal in
2 is a quantitative macro-level study, examining the conformity between Dutch firms’ internal and external
regulatory environment (fit), and linking this to firm performance. The U-shaped relationship between
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used to maintain a cross-sector partnership (XSP). We carry out a qualitative case study focusing on the A
use of different frames by diverse actors in an XSP. We find that collaboration in a partnership does not BE The paradox of embedded agency
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Strategic Renewal in Institutional Contexts:
The paradox of embedded agency

Strategic Renewal in Institutional Contexts:
The paradox of embedded agency
Strategische Vernieuwing in Institutionele Omgevingen:
De paradox van vernieuwing in vaste patronen
Thesis
to obtain the degree of Doctor from the
Erasmus University Rotterdam
by command of the
Rector Magnificus
Prof.dr. H.A.P. Pols
and in accordance with the decision of the Doctorate Board.
The public defence shall be held on
Friday the 18th of May at 11:30 hrs
by
Elizabeth Jacomijn Klitsie
born in Rotterdam
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Doctoral Committee
Doctoral dissertation supervisor:
Prof. dr. H.W. Volberda
Other members:
Prof. dr. L.C.P.M. Meijs
Prof. dr. R. Suddaby
Prof. dr. A.J. Groen
Co-supervisor:
Dr. S. Ansari
Erasmus Research Institute of Management – ERIM
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and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ....................................................................................IX
Introduction .................................................................................................1
Strategic Renewal through Institutional Entrepreneurship ..................................1
Dissertation overview ...........................................................................................3
Study 1: Institutional perspectives on strategic renewal ..............................................5
Study 2: Being different for a reason: how over- and under-compliance are related to
higher performance ......................................................................................................6
Study 3: Maintenance of Cross-Sector Partnerships: the Role of Frames in Sustained
Collaboration ................................................................................................................8
Study 4: Creating and disrupting to explore: how different types of institutional work
by actors relate to different firm wide innovation outcomes ......................................10
Declaration of contribution ................................................................................12
References ..........................................................................................................14
Study 1. Institutional perspectives on strategic renewal ........................19
Introduction ........................................................................................................19
Strategic renewal ................................................................................................26
Discussion ..........................................................................................................29
Study 2. Being different for a reason: how over- and under-compliance
are related to higher performance ...........................................................33
Abstract ..............................................................................................................33
Introduction ........................................................................................................34
Literature review ...............................................................................................37
Regulatory fit ..............................................................................................................40
Over-compliance and substantive performance .........................................................42
Regulatory fit and substantive performance. ..............................................................43
Under-compliance and substantive performance .......................................................43
Regulatory fit and symbolic performance ..................................................................45
Methods ..............................................................................................................47
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Research setting and data collection ..........................................................................47
Construct measurement ..............................................................................................48
Reliability and validity ..............................................................................................49
Results ................................................................................................................50
Discussion ..........................................................................................................52
Theoretical implications .............................................................................................52
Managerial implications .............................................................................................54
Limitations and directions for future research ...........................................................56
Conclusion. .........................................................................................................56
References .........................................................................................................58
Tables and diagrams ...........................................................................................62
Appendices .........................................................................................................66
Study 3. Maintenance of Cross-Sector Partnerships: the Role of
Frames in Sustained Collaboration .........................................................69
Abstract ..............................................................................................................69
Introduction ........................................................................................................70
Cross-Sector Partnerships and Collaborations ..................................................77
Types of cross-sector partnerships (XSPs) .................................................................78
XSP life cycle .............................................................................................................79
The role of framing in sustaining collaboration .........................................................81
Research context, design and methods . .............................................................83
Research context ........................................................................................................83
Methods .............................................................................................................85
Data collection ............................................................................................................86
Data analysis ..............................................................................................................88
Findings .............................................................................................................89
Multiple frame sources and frame variation ..............................................................89
Frame selection ..........................................................................................................90
Other frame selection mechanisms ............................................................................94
Frame retention ..........................................................................................................96
Discussion .........................................................................................................97
Frame selection ..........................................................................................................98
Selection through internal alignment .........................................................................99
Frame retention ........................................................................................................103
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A Model for Frame Plurality in XSP’s ............................................................104
Contributions ............................................................................................................107
Limitations and Future Research Avenues ......................................................110
Conclusion .......................................................................................................110
References .......................................................................................................112
Tables and Figures ............................................................................................118
Study 4. Creating and disrupting to explore: how different types of
institutional work by actors relate to different firm wide innovation
outcomes ...................................................................................................129
Abstract ............................................................................................................129
Introduction .....................................................................................................130
Institutional work and Innovation ....................................................................132
Methods ...........................................................................................................137
Research setting and data collection ........................................................................137
Construct measurement ............................................................................................138
Reliability and validity ............................................................................................139
Findings ...........................................................................................................140
Discussion .......................................................................................................141
Theoretical implications ...........................................................................................141
Methodological implications ....................................................................................142
Managerial implications ...........................................................................................142
Conclusion .......................................................................................................143
References .......................................................................................................144
Tables ...............................................................................................................147
Appendices ......................................................................................................150
Conclusion and Discussion ......................................................................153
Summary (English) ..................................................................................161
Samenvatting (Nederlands) ....................................................................165
About the Author .....................................................................................169
Author Portfolio .......................................................................................171
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