From Thin Air to Firm Ground: Empirical Guidelines for a General Processual Model of Institution Building

Abstract

This paper reports one set of contributions from an exploratory study of management education institutions in India to ground the Institution Building (IB) theory. It develops empirically a general processual model of institution building using five concepts: context; capability development, innovative thrust, and penetration (performance); and process mechanisms. The paper outlines the various process mechanisms affecting institutional development. Implications for planned change at macrosystem (social change) and microsystem (organizational change) levels are highlighted.