Natalie Eng

Natalie Eng

PhD Candidate
Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management

Email: nweng@ualberta.ca

Department: Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management
Office Hours: By appointment

Address: Business Building Room 2-24
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Edmonton, AB T6G 2R6
Canada


91ÒùĸÊÓÆµ Interests

Organizations today face challenges that cannot be addressed by individual firms alone. Increasingly, coordinated action at the level of fields and ecosystems is required to tackle complex problems such as declining institutional trust, persistent social divides, and the erosion of epistemic authority. To examine how organizations collaborate — or fail to collaborate — to address these challenges, I situate my research at the intersection of strategy and institutional theory, drawing on insights from science and technology studies and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Using qualitative methods, I study central actors — such as ecosystem orchestrators and institutional custodians — and focus on how they sustain the infrastructures that produce shared understandings and enable collective action. In doing so, my work contributes to understanding how organizations sustain and adapt institutional arrangements in a fragmented world, offering insight into how they can pursue non-market strategies when effective action depends on coordination at the field level rather than the capabilities of any single firm.

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