Mountford, Nicola
(2019)
Managing by proxy: Organizational networks as institutional levers in
evolving public good markets.
Journal of Business Research, 98.
pp. 92-104.
ISSN 0148-2963
Abstract
Governments must ensure the sustainability of public goods in the face of evolutionary pressures: increasing
private market power, escalating resource constraints and heightening consumer expectations. Research has
demonstrated that organizational networks can be used to drive and shape markets but that institutionalized
norms, values, and practices can block market change. I ask how governments can use networks to shape
markets by proxy, complementing direct regulatory intervention. I draw on organizational networks literature,
institutional theory, and longitudinal empirical evidence to examine government efforts to form a new interorganizational
network to challenge institutional norms in Ireland's eHealth market. I identify three key processes
that governments engage in when using networks to influence institutional change in evolving markets:
empowering institutional challengers, reconciling competing institutional logics, and bridging policy and
practice
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Public organizing;
Market studies;
Inter-organizational networks;
Institutional theory;
eHealth; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
| Item ID: |
11288 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.01.033 |
| Depositing User: |
Nicola Mountford
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| Date Deposited: |
15 Oct 2019 16:15 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Journal of Business Research |
| Publisher: |
Elsevier |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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