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Outsider-driven institutional entrepreneurship: the case of the emerging field of positive psychology education

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Abumuamar, Mohsen and Campbell, A. (2022) Outsider-driven institutional entrepreneurship: the case of the emerging field of positive psychology education. Asia Pacific Journal of Management. ISSN Electronic:1572-9958; Print: 0217-4561

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-022-09837-6

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The phenomenon of outsider-driven institutional entrepreneurship may appear both paradoxical and opaque. We examine outsider-driven institutional entrepreneurship by drawing on an in-depth qualitative case study of the emerging field of positive psychology education. We investigate how institutional entrepreneurs, located outside Kuwait’s Ministry of Education, enabled actors inside the Ministry both to deviate from existing institutional arrangements and to institutionalize new practices. Our findings illustrate that outsider-driven institutional entrepreneurship in emerging fields starts with ‘normalization’, that is, the production of claims, arguments, and evidence, about the effectiveness of the newly proposed practices. Our study contributes to the literature on outsider-driven institutional entrepreneurship in emerging fields by identifying a set of critical activities associated with deviation from prevailing institutional arrangements, and the institutionalization of innovation.

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Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	Emerging fields, Institutional change, Institutional entrepreneurship, Outsiders, Middle East
Divisions:	College of Business, Psychology and Sport > School of Psychology
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Copyright Info:	© The Author(s) 2022
Depositing User:	Mohsen Abumuamar
Date Deposited:	28 Jul 2022 13:36
Last Modified:	28 Jul 2022 13:36
URI:	https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/12376

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