Institutional Logics and the Internationalization of a State-Owned Enterprise : Evaluation of International Venture Opportunities by Telecom Finland 1987–1998
We contribute to the research on internationalization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) by studying the coevolution of state governance of SOEs and SOEs’ evaluation of international venture opportunities during a shift in dominant institutional logic from state to market logic. Using a novel digital historical method to study Telecom Finland, we argue that as state governance mechanisms change due to a logic shift, rationales underlying SOEs’ internationalization can significantly change and impact SOEs’ geographical and partner preferences. However, a logic shift also affords SOEs significant influence over the formation of new state governance policies under the new dominant logic. peerRe…
Peer interaction and pioneering organizational form adoption : A tale of the first two for-profit stock exchanges
Building on a historical case study on the first two stock exchanges to adopt the now globally dominant for-profit organizational form, the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1993 and the Helsinki Stock Exchange in 1995, we argue that interaction among socially proximate peers contributes to pioneering organizational form adoption within an industry, particularly when such forms are introduced by established organizations. Peer interaction can induce a search for technically efficient organizational forms through the sharing of collective experiences, the establishment of collective assumptions, and a joint search for solutions. Together, these factors contribute to the legitimization of novel or…
sj-xlsx-1-oss-10.1177_01708406211024570 – Supplemental material for Peer Interaction and Pioneering Organizational Form Adoption: A tale of the first two for-profit stock exchanges
Supplemental material, sj-xlsx-1-oss-10.1177_01708406211024570 for Peer Interaction and Pioneering Organizational Form Adoption: A tale of the first two for-profit stock exchanges by Zeerim Cheung, Robin Gustafsson and Rasmus Nykvist in Organization Studies