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work_lajupfoawjd2vjpjstci2opryq	Emmanuel Lazega	Networks and Institutionalization: A Neo-structural Approach	2017	16	.pdf	application/pdf	7274	476	44	A short presentation of concepts reflects in part the foundations of neostructural sociology (NSS) and its use of social and organisational network analyses, combined with other methodologies, to better understand the roles of structure and culture in individual and collective agency. Specific characteristics of institutional entrepreneurs who punch above their weight in institutionalization processes are introduced for that purpose, particularly the importance of multistatus oligarchs, status heterogeneity, high-status inconsistencies, collegial oligarchies, conflicts of interests and rhetorics of relative/false sacrifice. The second case focuses on a network study of a fieldconfiguring event (the so-called Venice Forum) lobbying for the emergence of a new European jurisdiction, the Unified Patent Court, and its attempt to create a common intellectual property regime for the continent. focus on network modelling of social processes helping actors in such settings manage the To illustrate this neo-structural approach, let me present two cases of institutionalization of new norms in businessrelated judicial institutions (Lazega, 2003), 	./cache/work_lajupfoawjd2vjpjstci2opryq.pdf	./txt/work_lajupfoawjd2vjpjstci2opryq.txt