Digital creatives and digital engineers: entrepreneurial firms, institutional context, and the organization of innovation

IF 3.2 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Socio-Economic Review Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI:10.1093/ser/mwad057

Marcela Miozzo, Cornelia Storz, Steven Casper

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Abstract The comparative capitalisms literature has developed an increasingly dynamic approach to conceptualizing capitalism variety, and has suggested mechanisms to explain shifts in institutional practices under the surface of formal stability of the institutional context. Less is known, however, about how new entrepreneurial firms engage with institutions to develop organizational arrangements needed to support their innovation activities. Such engagement with institutions can represent sources of heterogeneity within and across national institutional contexts, with incremental changes in practices resulting, in some instances, in major transformations in institutions over time. We draw on a study of fifty-three independent mobile games firms in the USA and Japan and the structures and processes used by these firms to develop innovative activities in their institutional context. Our research advances our understanding of organizational diversity and institutional change in two ways. First, our study identifies two new ‘variants’ of how entrepreneurial firms organize their innovation activities in their institutional context—digital creatives and digital engineers. Second, we characterize the mechanisms through which entrepreneurial firms engage and respond to institutions that support the establishment of these variants—defecting, intensifying, and positioning vis-à-vis large firms.

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数字创意和数字工程师:创业公司、制度背景和创新组织

比较资本主义文献已经发展出一种越来越有活力的方法来概念化资本主义的多样性，并提出了解释制度背景下形式稳定性表面下制度实践变化的机制。然而，对于新的创业公司如何与机构合作，制定支持其创新活动所需的组织安排，人们知之甚少。这种与机构的接触可能是国家机构内部和国家机构之间异质性的来源，在某些情况下，实践的渐进变化会导致机构随着时间的推移发生重大转变。我们研究了美国和日本的53家独立手机游戏公司，以及这些公司在其机构背景下开发创新活动所使用的结构和流程。我们的研究从两个方面促进了我们对组织多样性和制度变革的理解。首先，我们的研究确定了创业公司如何在其制度背景下组织创新活动的两种新的“变体”——数字创意人员和数字工程师。其次，我们描述了创业公司参与并回应支持这些变体建立的机构的机制——背叛、强化和定位-à-vis大公司。

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