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The author critiques the existing literature on institutional change and points out that most of the work on institutional change and entrepreneurship is set in commercial fields where the guiding motive is competition and maximization of profits as against co-operation and sharing of resources that is at the core of institutional change in social arena. Issues such as injustice, inequity, and absence of fair play are significant concerns, which could spur the emergence of change agents, or social entrepreneurs, or champions to initiate action for change in a typical social arena such as an Indian rural community. Forwarding this argument and drawing from literature on social change, social entrepreneurship, and social movement, Patnaik extends the profiles of institutional change suggested by Dorado and posits an alternative profile of ‘social institutional change’ by addressing existing power asymmetries through the process of convening. The chapter defines institutional convening, the relationship between institutional convening and power, the role of institutional champion as an extension of DiMaggio’s ‘institutional entrepreneur’
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Patnaik, A. (2019). Ex-Ante Framework and Research Questions. In: Institutional Change and Power Asymmetry in the Context of Rural India. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1301-1_3
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