What is the Institutional Landscape and how do companies navigate it?

What we will cover

This session draws on research in cultural sociology and economic sociology to understand the broader system of formal and informal norms and expectations within which firms operate. For firms like Facebook, Uber, or Airbnb, long-term growth may depend less on their competitive strategies than on their capacity to persuade political authorities, courts of law, local communities and/or the public opinion that their profitable business models are socially acceptable or even desirable. In this session, we will introduce concepts that will help us better understand the controversies surrounding these firms and the strategies that they adopt to shelter themselves from institutional pressures. 

Session times

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