Works
- Travels of ideas: organizational change as translation, Discussion paper FS II 95-501, Forschungsschwerpunkt Technik, Arbeit, Umwelt, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin (40 pages; a substantially revised version of the authors' essay 'Winds of organizational change' in Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 1994), 1995
- Translating Organizational Change, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin (edited volume), 1996
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Scandinavian institutionalism
Ideas
Translation. With Joerges, contrasted the diffusion model of how ideas spread with a translation model in which each adopter may modify, deflect, or add to an idea, so that an institution re-created elsewhere is new even when compared with its original. Caveat: A discussion paper built on examples such as Swedish municipal reform, not a systematic study; it also allows that the same processes, seen from a translocal view, can be read as institutional isomorphism.
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