caa a22 4500 445822503 CHVBK 20180317145248.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11186-011-9144-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11186-011-9144-6 Sgourev Stoyan ESSEC Business School, Avenue Bernard Hirsch, B.P. 50105, 95021, Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France aut "Wall Street” meets Wagner: Harnessing institutional heterogeneity [Elektronische Daten] [Stoyan Sgourev] If institutional heterogeneity tends overall to reduce survival chances, it may also persist and be harnessed to good use. This article investigates this ambivalence by looking at how institutional heterogeneity emerges, develops, and survives. An inductive study of the "Metropolitan Opera” archives suggests that what enables heterogeneity to survive and to withstand the pressure for homogenization is its inherent potential for "multivocality.” The analysis shows how institutional discrepancies were bridged over through an opportunistic, "multivocal” action pattern, whereby the organization maneuvered between conflicting institutional demands, seeking to minimize dependence on any single constituency or evaluation principle. Maintaining discretionary options is essential in multi-dimensional space, where ambiguity makes optimization impractical. The trade-off in this action pattern includes remarkable adaptability and operational inefficiencies. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Institutional heterogeneity nationallicence Survival nationallicence Multivocality nationallicence Opera nationallicence Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/4(2011-07-01), 385-416 0304-2421 40:4<385 2011 40 11186 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9144-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9144-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sgourev Stoyan ESSEC Business School, Avenue Bernard Hirsch, B.P. 50105, 95021, Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/4(2011-07-01), 385-416 0304-2421 40:4<385 2011 40 11186 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer