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Organizational theory has matured to a point where we know much about how organizational fields, once formed, evolve. We know less about how new organizational fields emerge. This dissertation provides a social-political account of how a field emerges through participants’ intentional construction processes. People and organizations join fields in order to forward their own goals. Negotiations and contestations over meaning occur because the ability to define who and what belongs within the field can facilitate participants’ access to resources.