How Emerging Organizations Take Form: The Role of Imprinting and Values in Organizational Bricolage

A previous version of this article received the EGOS Best Paper Award 2013. Previous versions were presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Anaheim (2010), the European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquia in Lisbon (2010) and Montreal (2013), and an Organization Theory Research Group workshop at Bocconi University, Milan (2011). The authors are grateful for comments by the editor and three reviewers as well as N. Anand, Shahzad Ansari, Joel Bothello, Anna Canato, Lisa Cohen, Jeannette Colyvas, Elena Dalpiaz, Deborah Dougherty, Royston Greenwood, Santi Furnari, Candy Jones, Ilze Kivleniece, Bas Koene, Kamal Munir, Nelson Phillips, Woody Powell, Davide Ravasi, Paul Tracey, Henri Schildt, Marc Ventresca, and Bettina Wittneben. The authors appreciate the help by Marion Hamm and Zhongyuan Zhang in compiling and analyzing some of the data used in this paper. M. Perkmann acknowledges support from the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) via an Advanced Institute of Management Practices Fellowship [RES-331-27-0063]. A. Spicer acknowledges support from the ESRC’s “Non-Government Public Action” program [RES-155-25-0029].