INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS OF INTERORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION: THE EMERGENCE OF PROTO-INSTITUTIONS.
University of Melbourne · McGill University · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Institutional Effects of Inter-organizational Collaboration:The Case of Mre et Enfant (Palestine)In this paper, we explore the institutional effects of interorganizational collaboration.We argue that collaboration can act as a source of change in institutional fields through the generation of proto-institutions: new practices, rules and technologies that transcend the particular collaborative relationship and may become new institutions if they diffuse sufficiently throughout the institutional field.Based on a study of the collaborative activities of a small, nongovernmental organization (NGO) in Palestine over a four-year period, we propose that those collaborations that are both highly embedded and have high…
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- 24.65
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- 100%
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Authors
3- TBThomas B. LawrenceCorresponding
University of Melbourne, McGill University, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, University of Victoria
- CHCynthia Hardy
University of Victoria, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, McGill University, University of Melbourne
- NPNelson Phillips
University of Victoria, University of Melbourne, McGill University, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Topics & keywords
- Business
- Public relations
- Knowledge management
- Organizational behavior
- Institutional theory
- Industrial organization
- Psychology
- Political science