The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Social Skill and Institutional Theory
Abstract
The problem of the role of actors in institutional theory can be addressed in considering a model of institutional entrepreneurship. A sociological posing of this question defines institutional entrepreneurs as actors who have social skills, that is, the ability to motivate cooperation of other actors by providing them with common meanings and identities. The author argues that skill is applied differently across organizational fields that are forming, become stable, and are being transformed. To illustrate some of these principles, the author considers the example of the role of Jacques Delors in the framing of the Single Market Program of the European Union.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
Social entrepreneurship research: A source of explanation, prediction, and delight
Mair, J., & Martí, I. (2006) · Journal of World Business · doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2005.09.002 · Cited by 4,015
INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN EMERGING FIELDS: HIV/AIDS TREATMENT ADVOCACY IN CANADA.
Maguire, S., Hardy, C., & Lawrence, T. B. (2004) · Academy of Management Journal · doi:10.2307/20159610 · Cited by 2,138
Social Entrepreneurship: Why We Don't Need a New Theory and How We Move Forward From Here
Dacin, P. A., Dacin, M. T., & Matear, M. (2010) · Academy of Management Perspectives · doi:10.5465/amp.2010.52842950 · Cited by 1,527
Toward a General Theory of Strategic Action Fields
Fligstein, N., & McAdam, D. (2011) · Sociological Theory · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9558.2010.01385.x · Cited by 1,367
Self-citationInstitutional Work: Refocusing Institutional Studies of Organization
Lawrence, T., Suddaby, R., & Leca, B. (2011) · Journal of Management Inquiry · doi:10.1177/1056492610387222 · Cited by 1,355
Metadata
- Authors
- FLIGSTEIN, N.
- Venue
- American Behavioral Scientist
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1997-02
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 397-405
- ISSN
- 0002-7642 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3381
- OpenAlex
- W2042392340
- Cited by
- 1,207
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 7.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Social Skill and Institutional Theory. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1177/0002764297040004003
- The paper
- FLIGSTEIN, N. (1997). Social Skill and Institutional Theory. American Behavioral Scientist. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764297040004003
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
