The Anatomy of Change: A Neo-institutional Perspective

320 Pages·2008·1.651 MB·English

by  John Damm Scheuer, Steen Scheuer

Editors
Steen Scheuer
John Damm Scheuer
The
Anatomy
of
– A Neo-Institutionalist Perspective
Change
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The Anatomy of Change
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 1
Introduction:
Change Anatomies and Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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Section I | Changing Organizations

Chapter 2
Interpreting the Means and the Goals:
Innovation in Danish Public Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Lars Fuglsang
Chapter 3
Organizational Change and Values-Driven Management:
A Perspective from Institutional Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff

Chapter 4
Changing Success Criteria for Public Sector Institutions:
Squaring the Circle? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
John Storm Pedersen
Chapter 5
Convergent and Divergent Processes of Change in Organizations:
Exploring Change as Translation in the Encounter of Idea
and Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
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Chapter 6
Intervention, Implementation, and Translation as Metaphors
of Change in Healthcare and Public Sector Organizations. . . . . 139
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Chapter 7
The Institutionalization of a Routine:
Identity, Interaction, and Materiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Niels Christian Nickelsen
Section II | Changing Societies
Chapter 8
Ideas in EU Decision Making:
Towards a Typology of Ideas and Ideational Change. . . . . . . . 209
Kennet Lynggaard
Chapter 9
The Process of Legitimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Eva Boxenbaum

Chapter 10
Institutions and Governance:
The Dynamics of Change in the
Institutional Arrangements of the Danish Labor Markets . . . . . 263
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Section III | Conclusions

Chapter 11
Conclusion:
Theoretical Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Steen Scheuer
Notes on Contributors
EVA BOXENBAUM, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Or-
ganization at Copenhagen Business School. She conducts research on insti-
tutional change processes, particularly the role of innovation, translation and
entrepreneurship in bringing about change in mature organizational fields.
Her work has been published in Strategic Organization, Journal of Business
Strategies, and American Behavioral Scientist.
[e-mail: [email protected]]
LARS FUGLSANG, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Social Sciences at Roskilde
University. His main research interest is in how organizational frameworks are
created to deal with the impact of innovation and technology on business and
the public sector. He has written books and papers in the field of science and
technology studies, innovation studies, service studies, and public innovation.
[e-mail: [email protected]]
KENNET LYNGGAARD, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in International Or-
ganization and Administration at Roskilde University. His main research in-
terests are concerned with decision making in the European Union and the
Common Agricultural Policy. His recent publications include The Common
Agricultural Policy and Organic Farming: An Institutional Perspective on Con-
tinuity and Change (CABI, 2006) and “The Institutional Construction of a
Policy Field”, Journal of European Public Policy (2007).
[e-mail: [email protected]]
NIELS CHRISTIAN NICKELSEN holds a Ph.D. in organization theory
from the Copenhagen Business School. He is Assistant Professor in the de-
partment of psychology at the University of Copenhagen. His key research
interests lie within the mundane co-evolution of subjectivities, instruments,
and institutions in relation to reorganization and product/service development
The Anatomy of Change – A Neo-Institutionalist Perspective
in hospitals and industry. These interest circle around the complex processes
involved in weaving together the various expertise, agendas, technology, and
classifications of the actors.
[e-mail: [email protected]]
JOHN STORM PEDERSEN, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Social Sciences
at Roskilde University. He has written books and articles in the field of public
administration and management, on structural reforms in the public sector,
and public innovation. His current main research interests include the impact
of structural reforms on the Danish public sector and the production and
delivery of services by public institutions. He is former CEO of the Mayor’s
Office in the Aalborg Municipality, Denmark.
[e-mail: [email protected]]
JACOB DAHL RENDTORFF, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Depart-
ment of Communication, Business, and Information Technologies at Roskilde
University. His publications are primarily concerned with business ethics, val-
ues-driven management, corporate social responsibility and corporate govern-
ance. He recently published “Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability,
and Stakeholder Management” in Business Ethics and Corporate Social Respon-
sibility (2006).
[e-mail: [email protected]]
JOHN DAMM SCHEUER holds a Ph.D. from the Copenhagen Business
School and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Busi-
ness, and Information Technologies at Roskilde University. His main research
interests and focus are the study of the encounter of innovative ideas and local
practice in private as well as public organizations. He studies the encounter as
implementation, as diffusion or as translation processes, and he also explores
ways of theorizing about “the encounter” and local organizing processes.
[e-mail: [email protected]]
STEEN SCHEUER, M.A., Ph.D., DS.C., is Professor of Organization and
Management in the Department of Society and Globalization at Roskilde Uni-
versity. His most recent book is Social and Economic Motivation at Work (CBS
Press, 2000). He has published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations,
European Journal of Industrial Relations, Thunderbird International Business
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Notes on Contributors
Review, Journal of Labor Research and (in Denmark) in Ledelse og Erhvervsøkono-
mi, Økonomi og politik, Dansk Sociologi, and Samfundsøkonomen, among oth-
ers. Presently, he studies the impact of EU integration and globalization on
collective interest organizations in Europe.
[e-mail: [email protected]]
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Preface
The contributors to this book are researchers from Roskilde University,
Copenhagen Business School, and the University of Copenhagen. They share a
common interest in exploring organizational change from a neoinstitutionalist
theoretical perspective.
The group has met and discussed this shared interest at meetings and semi-
nars. While we haven’t reached agreement on a common text or program state-
ment, we have been able to clarify the exposition of each others’ thoughts. We
hope that this volume will stimulate discussion and contribute to neoinstitu-
tionalist reasoning, argumentation, and ultimately a better understanding of
societal and organizational change.
Some of the activities connected to this book have been made available by a
generous network grant from the Danish Social Science Research Council.
We are grateful for this support and for the understanding and patience of our
colleagues in the editing phases of this book.
It might be added, that while the editors share last names, they are not
related.
Roskilde, November 2007
Steen Scheuer and John Damm Scheuer