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Soppe, Birthe
(2023).
Time will tell: Category reinvention as incumbent stigma management strategy in contested industries. .
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Soppe, Birthe
(2022).
Thinking the future of sustainability transitions.
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Schiller-Merkens, Simone; Balsiger, Philip & Soppe, Birthe
(2022).
Shaping the Future in Times of Crises: Moral Market Entrepreneurs' Imaginaries of the Future and Social Change Agenda.
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Soppe, Birthe
(2022).
Time will tell: Category reinvention as incumbent stigma response in contested industries.
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Soppe, Birthe
(2022).
Sustainability in the frame.
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Soppe, Birthe & Bohn, Stephan
(2022).
Accelerating vs. buffering markets for sustainability: A discursive comparative study of the market for electrical cars in Norway and Germany.
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Schupfer, Hannah & Soppe, Birthe
(2022).
INCUMBENTS UNDER PRESSURE: FRAME INVERSION AS A RESPONSE TO THE ENDURING CLIMATE CRISIS.
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While there is considerable knowledge on issue framing as a critical tool for putting well-entrenched fields and their legacy inhabitants under pressure to change, little is known about how threatened field incumbents can turn issues into opportunities through advancing their own issue interpretation. Through an inductive, longitudinal analysis of field and organizational-level data in the Norwegian oil and gas sector (2007 to 2021), we develop a model of frame inversion which illuminates how contested field incumbents can turn issues into discursive and substantial business opportunities to remain relevant despite critical voices. Specifically, we show how oil and gas incumbents interpret the enduring issue of global climate change by integrating the established ‘profitable growth’ field frame into an ambiguous, low-carbon frame. Our model suggests that the arising ambiguous field frame creates an opportunity structure for incumbents to confront the issue through developing an ambidextrous strategy at the organizational level backed up by frame inversion. Frame inversion employs the novel field frame and inversely rewires it to re-legitimate contested lines of business. Our findings contribute to a dynamic perspective of framing by highlighting the interpretive framing dynamics across field and organizational level framing. We further enrich knowledge on the creation of opportunity structures through co-opting central field issues, and the tangible enactment of issue framing. Taken together, we advance research on incumbents’ market and non-market responses to climate change.
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Soppe, Birthe & Schupfer, Hannah
(2022).
The ‘greening’ incumbent: Incumbent-entrant collaborations for achieving sustainable business models.
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Soppe, Birthe & Schupfer, Hannah
(2021).
Incumbents under pressure: Frame inversion as a response to the enduring climate crisis.
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Soppe, Birthe & Schupfer, Hannah
(2021).
The ‘greening’ incumbent: Incumbent-entrant collaborations for achieving sustainable business models.
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Schupfer, Hannah & Soppe, Birthe
(2021).
Let's rethink our partners: Incumbent-entrant collaborations as micro-institutional practice during institutional change.
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Schupfer, Hannah & Soppe, Birthe
(2021).
Ambiguous encounters: Re-framing incumbent-entrant collaborations in the wake of profound institutional change.
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This study explores the meanings that established field incumbents assign to their collaborations with entrants during periods of profound institutional change, such as those connected to major societal problems, including climate change, the context of our study. We draw on framing theory to investigate how collaboration meanings become socially
constructed and inductively analyze collaboration announcements of a large Norwegian oil incumbent over a time frame of two decades (2000 to 2021). We find that the incumbent pursues an ambidextrous collaboration strategy with both renewable energy as well as oil and gas entrants despite augmenting sustainability concerns. Our findings suggest that this is possible because of frame remix. Frame remix imbues both types of collaborations with new meaning by pulling down conflicting field-level logics, yet rewires both logics in novel ways so they converge. Our findings hold important contributions for the literature on institutional and organizational change.
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Soppe, Birthe
(2020).
Sustainability transitions from an organizational perspective: Insights from studying the changing e-mobility discourse across countries.
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Soppe, Birthe
(2020).
Building bridges and struggles on the ground: Sustainability transitions from an organizational perspective.
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Soppe, Birthe
(2020).
Firms, organisations and sustainability transitions.
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Soppe, Birthe
(2020).
The role of organizations in sustainability transitions.
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Soppe, Birthe & Bohn, Stephan
(2020).
Transiting toward greener solutions? A comparative study of the e-mobility discourse in Norway and Germany during times of change (2000–2018).
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Doblinger, Claudia; Soppe, Birthe & Huber, Stephan
(2020).
Converging logics? Coopetitive ties and entrepreneurial innovation in the emerging clean transportation industry.
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Arnold, Nadine & Soppe, Birthe
(2019).
The Waltz of the Flowers: How material devices buttress the formation of organizational fields.
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Croidieu, Gregoire; Soppe, Birthe & Powell, Walter W.
(2019).
How contestation buttresses legitimacy: The case of the 1855 Bordeaux wine classification.
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Soppe, Birthe & Arnold, Nadine
(2019).
Field stability and change: The co-evolution of fields and organizations in the case of fair trade.
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Soppe, Birthe & Arnold, Nadine
(2019).
Moral struggles of field expansion: Navigating conflicting values in the case of fair trade.
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Doblinger, Claudia; Soppe, Birthe & Huber, Stephan
(2019).
Converging Logics: Coopetitive Ties and Innovation in the Early Clean Transportation Industry.
Academy of Management Proceedings.
ISSN 1543-8643.
2019(1).
doi:
10.5465/AMBPP.2019.148.
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Cooperation and competition have long been considered separate modes or “logics” of interaction between firms. In this study, we turn attention to entrepreneurial firms that operate under the disparate logics of competition and cooperation, and elaborate on the unproductive as well as productive tensions involved in coopetition, i.e., the simultaneous pursuit of cooperation and competition. We further disentangle the relevance of partners’ embeddedness in local clusters for startup innovation and ability to attract financial investments in emerging sustainability-oriented industries. Drawing on a sample of 287 startups in the emerging US clean transportation industry (2008-2012), we quantitatively examine and compare the role of coopetitive and purely collaborative (i.e., non-coopetitive) relationships that entrepreneurial firms engage in and how these differential ties allow for innovation and attracting startup financing. Our findings show that coopetitive relationships, despite the involved complexity, are positively associated with innovation activity, whereas collaborative relationships with non-competitors have a negative effect. The positive innovation effect of coopetitive ties is stronger for relationships with rivals that enable access to novel knowledge from outside of local geographic clusters. With regard to attracting startup financing, our results suggest that investors are reluctant to fund startups with coopetitive ties. However, investors seem to value the traditional logic of collaboration with non-rivals, especially if startups collaborate with non-rivals that are physically located within local clusters. Overall, these findings have important implications for the literature on coopetition and institutional complexity, and the development of new sustainability-oriented industries.
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Pershina, Raissa; Furnari, Santi & Soppe, Birthe
(2019).
A horse of a different color: How entrepreneurs use design and location to overcome stigma by association.
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Pershina, Raissa; Furnari, Santi & Soppe, Birthe
(2019).
How entrepreneurs overcome stigma: The role of design, material practices, and location.
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Soppe, Birthe & Arnold, Nadine
(2018).
The waltz of the flowers: How material devices buttress the formation of value-based fields.
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Soppe, Birthe; Pietraszkiewicz, Agnieszka; Pershina, Raissa & Formanowicz, Magdalena
(2018).
Get the crowd moving: Sustainability as a value frame in crowdfunding.
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Croidieu, Gregoire; Soppe, Birthe & Powell, Walter W.
(2018).
How contestation buttresses legitimacy: The case of the 1855 Bordeaux wine classification.
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Pershina, Raissa & Soppe, Birthe
(2018).
The role of emotions and rhetorical devices in the creation of institutionally complex products.
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Pershina, Raissa; Soppe, Birthe & Thune, Taran Mari
(2018).
What’s in the toolbox? Cross-domain collaboration and boundary spanning tools in the creation of new digital innovation.
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Good, Matthew; Soppe, Birthe & Knockaert, Mirjam
(2018).
Bridging the Science-Market Gap: Towards a Typology of Technology Transfer Ecosystems in Academia.
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Pershina, Raissa; Soppe, Birthe & Good, Matthew
(2018).
Creative rationalization? The adoption of big data in the creative industries.
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Soppe, Birthe & Arnold, Nadine
(2018).
From street to shelves: Identity and change in the field of fair trade.
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Good, Matthew; Knockaert, Mirjam & Soppe, Birthe
(2017).
A typology of the organizational design of technology transfer infrastructures.
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Pershina, Raissa; Soppe, Birthe & Thune, Taran Mari
(2017).
Bridging two worlds in creative hybrids: The role of emotions, rhetorical devices, and prototyping in product design.
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Soppe, Birthe; Pietraszkiewicz, Agnieszka; Pershina, Raissa & Formanowicz, Magdalena
(2017).
Mobilizing backers? Sustainability framing and success in
crowdfunding.
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Croidieu, Gregoire; Soppe, Birthe & Powell, Walter W.
(2016).
Multimodality and cultural entrepreneurship: The case of the wine château tradition in Bordeaux.
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Pershina, Raissa & Soppe, Birthe
(2016).
Let the games begin: Designing organizational artifacts at the intersection of two institutional fields.
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Arnold, Nadine & Soppe, Birthe
(2016).
Materializing morality: The creation of a new concerned market field.
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Good, Matthew; Knockaert, Mirjam & Soppe, Birthe
(2016).
The interconnectedness of the university technology transfer infrastructure: An organizational design perspective.
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Patala, Samuli; Jalkala, Anne; Korpivaara, Ida; Kuitunen, Aino & Soppe, Birthe
(2016).
Legitimacy under institutional change: How incumbents borrow clean rhetoric for dirty technologies
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Good, Matthew; Soppe, Birthe & Knockaert, Mirjam
(2015).
An Organizational Typology of Technology Transfer: A study of Technology Transfer Ecosystems at Research Universities.
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Arnold, Nadine & Soppe, Birthe
(2014).
Where do social products come from? From social movement to mass market - tracing Fair Trade products in Switzerland.
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Croidieu, Gregoire; Soppe, Birthe & Powell, Walter W.
(2014).
How are traditions invented? The case of the Bordeaux wine field.
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Arnold, Nadine & Soppe, Birthe
(2014).
From movement to market: The institutionalization of moral products.
