...Using the concept of institutional infrastructure, we explain how the social innovation of “microcredit” experienced mission drift at the field level as it was taken to scale, transforming from a subsidy-reliant, community-based, developmental model to the financially self-sustaining model...

... agents, explores how existing professions respond to the introduction of digital technologies as well as the emergence of new professional projects and institutional agents in the wake of digital transformation. The third perspective, institutional infrastructure, field governance and digital...

... the development of the “Crowdwork Agreement” forged between platforms and a trade union in the relatively young German crowdworking field. We find that existing templates played an important role in the process of negotiating this new institutional infrastructure, despite the radically new work context. While...

... of interaction generate provisional structures of actor–meaning couplets, which then cue actors as they navigate and constitute the emerging field. Our model re-energizes the core tenets of new structuralism and contributes to current debates about institutional emergence and change. Institutional infrastructure...