ARTICLE | Types of Institutional Work and Roles of the Territory in the Emergence Phase of a Single Social and Solidarity Economy Cluster

SUMMARY

The article aims to shed light on new insights about the emergence stage of a specific cluster, composed of cultural associations. Exploring a single arts and associative cluster, our findings contribute to reduce the lack of research on this specific field by means of an original theoretical approach based on neo-institutional theory. We focus on different types of institutional work (Cloutier et al., 2016), as well as different roles endorsed by the territory (Lawrence and Dover, 2015), which were required to set up the specific cluster. The findings lead to the identification of territorial work as a specific form of institutional work.

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