March 14, 2024Academy of Management Review

Institutional Parasites

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Institutional parasites undermine host structures yet can stimulate institutional maintenance, driving systemic drift, layering, or reform depending on functionary responses.
Conceptualization of the institutional parasite tracks how illegitimate actors alert elite institutional functionaries capable of maintaining or altering institutional structures.
Highlights the ambiguous link between institutional change and maintenance, demonstrating that preserving an institution often paradoxically requires fundamentally altering it.

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Conceptual analysis reveals three distinct pathways driven by institutional parasites in established institutions, highlighting that institutional maintenance often requires change.

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Rintämaki et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e740ffb6db6435876b9f03 https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2021.0502

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Conceptual analysis reveals three distinct pathways driven by institutional parasites in established institutions, highlighting that institutional maintenance often requires change.

Institutional Parasites

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