The ABC network seeks to benefit from the complementary profiles of three research institutions; Copenhagen Business School, University of Alberta and Harvard University, whose respective locations has led to the acronym ABC (Alberta, Boston and Copenhagen).

More specifically, each partner institution will contribute with skills and competencies that advance the shared agenda.

With a critical mass of researchers with an enduring interest in interpretive and processual aspects of institutional entrepreneurship, Copenhagen Business School is particularly well positioned to lift the challenge of carving a new research niche within this area.

On the other side of the Atlantic, the University of Alberta employs what arguably constitutes the highest concentration of internationally recognized institutionalist researchers and, similarly, Harvard University hosts highly recognized institutionalists in economic sociology, a sister discipline to organizational institutionalism.