TY - JOUR
T1 - Assembling a field into place
T2 - Smart-city development in Japan
AU - Nyberg, Roy A.
AU - Yarime, Masaru
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PY - 2017/3
Y1 - 2017/3
N2 - We examine the concept of 'organisational fields', a notion employed frequently, but at times with inconsistency, to describe supra-industrial conglomerations of organisations with a mutual interest. We find this concept analytically useful in today's world of rapid technological change and of organisations searching for business across industry boundaries. With our study of smart-city development in Japan, we provide an alternative theory to the predominant socio-cognitive explanations of how organisational fields emerge. Based on our empirical case, the drivers for the early development of an organisational field are concrete organisational actions to assemble the tangible objects of the new field.
AB - We examine the concept of 'organisational fields', a notion employed frequently, but at times with inconsistency, to describe supra-industrial conglomerations of organisations with a mutual interest. We find this concept analytically useful in today's world of rapid technological change and of organisations searching for business across industry boundaries. With our study of smart-city development in Japan, we provide an alternative theory to the predominant socio-cognitive explanations of how organisational fields emerge. Based on our empirical case, the drivers for the early development of an organisational field are concrete organisational actions to assemble the tangible objects of the new field.
KW - Commitment
KW - Emergence
KW - Information technology
KW - Material action
KW - Organisational fields
KW - Smart city
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U2 - 10.1108/S0733-558X20170000050008
DO - 10.1108/S0733-558X20170000050008
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
AN - SCOPUS:85016260348
SN - 0733-558X
VL - 50
SP - 253
EP - 279
JO - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
JF - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
ER -
