Tesis doctoral de Ignacio Marti Lanuza
Essays on institutions actors and markets in this dissertation i investigate the origins and nature od some of the institutional voids that affect market access, development, and functioning. Specifically, i investigate how entrepreneurial actors address these voids. In many developing countries those living in poverty are unable to participate in markets due to the weakness or complete absence of supportive institutions. Efforts to address such impediments encompass a great deal of institutional work. Recent work by institutional scholars has focused significantly on the processes through which actors affect the institutions within which they operate. However, most empirical research has predominantly focused on the developed world and placed the greatest emphasis on powerful actors. As a consequence, we may arguably end up with a rather narrow and partial view of why, when, and how actors create, maintain, and disrupt institutions. In response, i try to add to our understanding of institutional work by investigating how less-powerful and poorly resourced actors, initiate processes of institutional change in the developing world. I investigate the activities of a social entrepreneur to enable the poor to have a more active role in markets in rural bangladesh. In doing so, i join and contribute to two ongoing conversations- how to bring power agency, and interest back to research on institutions; and how markets get built and who contributes to it spanning across different research streams. Building on institutional theory i complement and extend existing usages by economists and strategy scholars of the concept of institutional voids. I argue and illustrate how institutional voids result from the conflict, collision, and shift between existing institutional arrangements. In addition, my examination of how a social entrepresneurial actor addresses some of the existing institutional voids in rural bangladesh reveals there fundamental- and relatively unexplored aspects of bricolage: the ongoing engagement in sensemaking of the bricoleur; the overt political nature of bricolage; and the unintended and potentially negative consequences of bricolage. Finally, this dissertation also contributes to organization studies by focusing on two issues that have been largely neglected and that occupy a central position in my work: poverty and gender economy relations.
Datos académicos de la tesis doctoral «Essays on institutions, actors and markets«
- Título de la tesis: Essays on institutions, actors and markets
- Autor: Ignacio Marti Lanuza
- Universidad: Navarra
- Fecha de lectura de la tesis: 08/10/2007
Dirección y tribunal
- Director de la tesis
- Johana Mair
- Tribunal
- Presidente del tribunal: africa Ariño martin
- marc j. Ventresca (vocal)
- marc Schneiberg (vocal)
- julio de Castro (vocal)