Organizational Responses to Proto-Institutions: How the Semi-edited and Unedited Accounts Clash
通过一项公共广播组织采用“生产者选择”制度的纵向民族志研究，揭示了原始制度采用过程中半编辑叙述与未编辑叙述的冲突如何导致模糊性，以及行动者如何借用半编辑叙述的合理性但基于失败先例来构建自己的采用。
While adoption of institutionalized structures has received immense attention from organizational scholars, the processes associated with adoption of proto-institutions are infrequently studied. Drawing on an ethnographic longitudinal study of Producer Choice adoption by a public broadcasting organization, I contribute to the extant literature by offering three findings. First, I show how the semi-edited account of an initial implementation of proto-institution clashes with multiple unedited accounts of subsequent adoptions and results in increased ambiguity regarding the structure. Second, I shed light on how actors involved in the focal adoption struggled to follow incompatible accounts and gauge the proto-institution’s value. Last, I show how actors produce their own adoption by borrowing the justification for reform from the semi-edited account but founding its design on a previous adoption that was perceived as failed.