Entrepreneurship (Fach) / When Innovations Meet Institutions: Edison and the Design of the Electric Light (Lektion)
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Andrew B. Hargadon and Yellowlees Douglas
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- General topic Introducing change into otherwise stable social systems is a risky endeavor, but this is exactly what entrepreneurs with potentially significant innovations must attempt to do
- Innovation and Institution · When innovations meet institutions, two social forces collide, one accounting for the stability of social systems and the other for change
- Schema and scripts o To describe this constitutive nature, institutional scholars have used the language of schemas and scripts · Schemas are "knowledge structures that represent objects or events and provide default assumptions about their characteristics, relationships, and entailments under conditions of incomplete information" ( · Scripts, as more localized forms of schemas, direct individual action and understanding in highly particularized
- The design to present an innovation · For entrepreneurs attempting to introduce novelty within or outside organizations, this history suggests they should choose their designs carefully to present some details as new, others as old, and hide still others from view altogether