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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Charles Harvey, Ruomei Yang, Professor Frank Mueller
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Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of the field of power, we examine the cross-national translation of organizational models and the strategic processes induced in recipient contexts. By means on an in-depth historical case study, we demonstrate how elite strategists mobilized networks and symbolic capital to disrupt field relations and embed the US community foundation model of philanthropy in North East England. Our findings suggest that instead of simply copying alien field-level practices, strategic actors within the philanthropic field adapted and modified them to deliver fit-for-context change legitimated by support from the regional power elite. Our main contribution is to show how strategic elites drawn from different life-worlds build coalitions within the field of power to modify institutional infrastructures and embed innovative organizational models, simultaneously bolstering their legitimacy and symbolic capital. We hold that the field of power construct offers uniquely valuable insights into how strategic elites accomplish institutional change.
Author(s): Harvey C, Yang R, Mueller F, Maclean M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Critical Perspectives on Accounting
Year: 2020
Volume: 73
Print publication date: 01/12/2020
Online publication date: 27/06/2020
Acceptance date: 02/06/2020
Date deposited: 02/06/2020
ISSN (print): 1045-2345
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2020.102199
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2020.102199
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