The Institutional Entrepreneur as Modern Prince: The Strategic Face of Power in Contested Fields
借鉴葛兰西的霸权概念,将制度企业家视为组织反霸权挑战的集体行动者,分析场域结构的物质、话语和组织维度,揭示制度创业中权力的战略面孔。
This paper develops a theoretical framework that situates institutional entrepreneurship by drawing from Gramsci's concept of hegemony to understand the contingent stabilization of organizational fields, and by employing his discussion of the Modern Prince as the collective agent who organizes and strategizes counter-hegemonic challenges. Our framework makes three contributions. First, we characterize the interlaced material, discursive, and organizational dimensions of field structure. Second, we argue that strategy must be examined more rigorously as the mode of action by which institutional entrepreneurs engage with field structures. Third, we argue that institutional entrepreneurship, in challenging the position of incumbent actors and stable fields, reveals a `strategic face of power', particularly useful for understanding the political nature of contestation in issue-based fields.