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2012-10-12
SSHRC Awarded IG 2013: This research will contribute to theories of institutional change by identifying the processes by which institutionalized arrangements embracing multiple logics are reconstructed. The empirical context is the public provision of addition services in Alberta, a mature...
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Not Just Small Potatoes: Social Partnerships as Relational Spaces that Bridge Social Movements and Organizational Change
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Social movements are a key source of novel practices that challenge the status quo and provoke organizational and institutional change. Sweeping narratives of exogenous social movement influenced change (e.g. protests, demonstrations, media attacks) have been complemented, more recently, by...
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2019-03-01
SSHRC PEG awarded 2019: We are applying to the Partnership Engage Grant in order to forge a partnership between the University of Alberta and Global Partners in Care (GPIC), an organization dedicated to enhancing access to palliative care globally, to launch a research program to explore the...
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Wicked Problems and Professional Work: Disrupting Work in a Mature Field with Incumbent Professions
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The emerging institutional work perspective implicates agency and action in institutional dynamics in contrast to the traditional organizational institutional approach. In this dissertation, my objective was to explore institutional disrupting work in a mature field with incumbent professions. I...