Institutional categories & emergent frames: invention impact of category-spanning & conforming firms

The category literature has identified many contingencies to the seminal categorical imperative. Adding to extant research, we provide a meta-explanation by focusing on the properties of the categorization schema itself. Specifically, we juxtapose institutional categories, operationalized via the International Patent Classification system, with emergent frames, operationalized through topic modelling and Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Both schema...