TY - CHAP
T1 - Roads to Institutionalization
T2 - The Remaking of Boundaries between Public and Private Science
AU - Colyvas, Jeannette A.
AU - Powell, Walter W.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the States and Markets program at the Santa Fe Institute, supported by the Hewlett Foundation, the Columbia-Stanford Consortium on Biomedical Innovation, funded by the Merck Foundation, and the Association for Institutional Research for research support. We are especially grateful to the Office of Technology Licensing at Stanford University, which has afforded us unrestricted access to their archives. We are also grateful to Helena Buhr, Gili Drori, Hokyu Hwang, John Meyer, Andrew Nelson, Jason Owen-Smith, Charks Perrow, Huggy Rao, Marc Schneiberg, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Barry Staw, and David Suarez for comments on an earlier draft. We have benefited from comments made at seminars at MIT's Sloan School and the University of Alberta.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - We analyze the process of institutionalization, arguing that it is the outcome of the self-reinforcing feedback dynamics of heightened legitimacy and deeper taken-for-grantedness, using novel techniques to document and trace this change over a 30-year period. Our focus is the remaking of the boundaries between public and private science, an institutional transformation that joined science and property, two formerly distinct spheres. The setting is Stanford University, an early adopter and pioneer in the formulation of policies of technology transfer. We illustrate how archival materials may be systematically assessed to capture notable changes in organizational practices and categories, reflecting both local and field-level processes. The paper concludes with a set of indicators that gauge low, medium, and high elements of institutional change. We argue that this approach allows for more precision in measurement and enables comparisons across studies, two standard critiques of the institutional approach.
AB - We analyze the process of institutionalization, arguing that it is the outcome of the self-reinforcing feedback dynamics of heightened legitimacy and deeper taken-for-grantedness, using novel techniques to document and trace this change over a 30-year period. Our focus is the remaking of the boundaries between public and private science, an institutional transformation that joined science and property, two formerly distinct spheres. The setting is Stanford University, an early adopter and pioneer in the formulation of policies of technology transfer. We illustrate how archival materials may be systematically assessed to capture notable changes in organizational practices and categories, reflecting both local and field-level processes. The paper concludes with a set of indicators that gauge low, medium, and high elements of institutional change. We argue that this approach allows for more precision in measurement and enables comparisons across studies, two standard critiques of the institutional approach.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0191-3085(06)27008-4
DO - 10.1016/S0191-3085(06)27008-4
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:33745712807
SN - 0762313358
SN - 9780762313358
T3 - Research in Organizational Behavior
SP - 305
EP - 353
BT - Research in Organizational Behavior An Annual Series of Analytical Essays and Critical Reviews
A2 - Staw, Barry
ER -