MMTC Research Seminar

Sara Ekberg will present a research seminar on the topic "The role of translation in the formation of a field; the case of a startup ecosystem".

The seminar will focus on a paper she is working on together with Paul Spee and Anna Jenkins from the The University of Queensland Business School about the emergence of fields. While mature fields a marked by stability, defined roles, relationships, and rules, emerging fields are uncertain and ambiguous, without clarity about roles, relationship, or even the common interests. On the organizational level, previous studies have argued that institutional entrepreneurs have ‘piggybacked’ on legitimization mechanism from external fields to create new structure and legitimize new organizational forms, but know less about how the process shapes the trajectory of a field.