How do New Organizations Emerge? Translated as Gr

In this contribution the emergence of new organizations is discussed: It starts with distinguishing different processes as new organizations emerge: signaling the intention to organize, resource mobilization, social organization, operational start-up, and receiving a legal identity. These processes are partly interdependent. Only few people wanting to found a new organization do so successfully because selection at this point is very high. Then it is shown how closely emerging new organizational forms are linked to social movements and also to a given cultural and institutional environment. Here, the emergence of new organizational forms can be understood as a political process: new norms, values and ideologies are getting infused into society at large. Institutional activists play a key role establishing new practices, mobilizing new resources and gaining legitimacy for new organizational forms.