How institutional entrepreneurs theorize change and change theorization.

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dc.contributor.advisorPavlov, Andrey
dc.contributor.advisorDenyer, David
dc.contributor.authorDjabbarov, Ibrat
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-20T11:16:14Z
dc.date.available2024-06-20T11:16:14Z
dc.date.freetoread2028-07-02
dc.date.issued2023-06
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores how over time institutional entrepreneurs (IEs) theorize change in mature fields. Based on the case of a social enterprise that seeks to secure support for its innovative solution and introduce change across multiple actors in a mature field of global health, this study highlights how IEs theorize change and change their theorization throughout the institutional change project. Furthermore, drawing on the process ontology, I elaborate on the process of theorization by showing how field actors contest change and solution, prompting organization members to become more deeply embedded in the institutional environment and change their theorization. This counterintuitive observation adds a new perspective to the paradox of embedded agency and contributes to understanding how theorization and institutionalization processes unfold recursively. Finally, the insights from this study challenge the assumptions of IEs as heroic figures by illustrating how the cognitive frames and solutions of organization members change as they make sense of the institutional arrangements, interests, and issues of different field actors.en_UK
dc.description.coursenamePhD in Leadership and Managementen_UK
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/22534
dc.language.isoen_UKen_UK
dc.publisherCranfield Universityen_UK
dc.publisher.departmentSOMen_UK
dc.rights© Cranfield University, 2023. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright holder.en_UK
dc.subjectinstitutional theoryen_UK
dc.subjectinstitutional changeen_UK
dc.subjectinstitutional entrepreneurshipen_UK
dc.subjectinstitutional microprocessesen_UK
dc.subjecttheorizationen_UK
dc.subjectsensemakingen_UK
dc.subjectframesen_UK
dc.subjectprocess researchen_UK
dc.titleHow institutional entrepreneurs theorize change and change theorization.en_UK
dc.typeThesis or dissertationen_UK
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_UK
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_UK

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