Wüst, LucLucWüst2023-04-132023-04-132021-09-20https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/109967This thesis concerns the study of how organizational actors adopt institutional change. The Scandinavian institutionalism literature has proposed a processual approach of translation for studying how organizational actors enact field-level ideas locally. So far, scholars have focused on the transformation of field-level ideas in the process of local enactment. Less attention had been paid to underlying social processes, that is, how actors interpret the idea and mobilize existing value systems to influence the local translation process. This study aims at addressing this gap in the literature. For studying the local translation process, the Brazilian School Feeding Program was selected. This policy had experienced a comprehensive reform in 2009 and proposed an innovative approach to increase food security - creating local food systems by integrating family farmers as suppliers. Specifically, the research analyzes the implementation of novel legislation, which obliges municipal administrations to allocate a quota of federal endowments specifically for procurement from family farmers. Following an interpretive-qualitative case study approach based on four municipalities in the state of São Paulo, an exploratory model for the local translation process will be developed. The concept of rationalities of local communities of meaning will be integrated into the model to conceptualize local value systems. The findings propose to conceptualize the local translation as a process of five phases comprising activities of understanding, mobilizing, adapting, implementing, institutionalizing. The unfolding of this translation process is guided and mediated by mobilized actor rationalities. The study contributes to theory by proposing a processual model for the local translation process that considers both the transformation of the idea and the underlying social processes.enOrganisationstheorieNeoinstitutionalismusRationalitätBrasilienEDIS-5161Policy Implementierungrationalitytranslationpolicy implementationBrazilschool feedingSchulernährungprocessÜbersetzungsprozesseNeoinstitutional theorydoctoral thesis