Imitation
Imitation
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DOI：
10.2307/j.ctv6cfqnf.7
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2023
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Liesbeth Mann
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N. V. van Bergen;Allard R. Feddes;Bertjan Doosje;Liesbeth Mann
组织学者越来越多地将制度化视为一个过程，通过这个过程，行动者调整或翻译某个领域看似成功的实践，以创造出适合自己组织的变化。然而，对于寻求传播“最佳实践”的局外人如何影响翻译，人们知之甚少。我们在两个不同的咨询项目中研究了管理顾问和他们的客户之间的互动，其中一个项目侧重于嵌入“精益”实践，另一个项目侧重于嵌入质量改进框架的实践。我们的研究结果提供了对翻译过程的深入了解，通过这些过程，推动者和采用者在不同阶段达成妥协，阐明了进口实践的演变如何标志着谈判的结果。此外，我们表明，管理实践并不是孤立地翻译，而是由协会采用的外围实践所包围。我们强调，在这两种情况下，基准的外围做法很少受到质疑或谈判，因此证明对翻译更有抵抗力。我们的分析使我们能够解开作为谈判的谈判中固有的机构，并整合扩散和翻译的研究。
Organizational scholars increasingly view institutionalization as a process through which actors adapt or translate seemingly successful practices in a field to create variations that are specific to their own organization. Yet little is known about how outsiders who seek to diffuse ‘best practice’ affect translation. We examined interactions between management consultants and their clients in two different consulting projects, which focused on embedding the practice of ‘lean’ in one and the practice of a quality improvement framework in the other. Our findings provide insights into the processes of translation through which promoters and adopters iterate at different stages to reach a compromise, illuminating how the evolution of an imported practice signals the outcome of a negotiation. Furthermore, we demonstrate that management practices are not translated in isolation but enveloped by peripheral practices that are adopted by association. We highlight how the peripheral practice of benchmarking, in both cases, was rarely contested or negotiated and thus proved more resistant to translation. Our analysis allows us to unpack the agency inherent within translation-as-negotiation and integrate research on diffusion and translation.