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- by and +2
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- History, Institutional Theory, Collective Memory, Institutional Logics

With this perspective paper, we seek to help open up an additional and, we believe, especially promising avenue for indigenous management research. We explore the potential for progress through the investigation of executive rationale, an institutional logic guiding managerial action and enabling strategies, structures, and formal integration mechanisms. Drawing on interviews with an elite group of executives including some of the world’s most powerful managers, we illustrate variance in executive rationale across five major economies – Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and the United States – and suggest that action and structures in these economies are broadly aligned with the respective expressions of executive rationale. We consequently hold that indigenous management research may benefit from a focus on executive rationale in particular, and we propose a concrete research agenda.

- by gordon REDDING and +1
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- China, Institutional Logics, National Business Systems, Indigenous Management Theory

We combine the concepts of legitimacy, institutional (mis)alignments, strategic responses and organizing visions to develop a conceptual framework to analyze the adoption of innovations that span organizational fields. We apply this framework to examine a telehealth innovation connecting a public sector hospital-based Eye Clinic with private sector optometry practices. We find that while compromise strategies were successful in encouraging adoption within each field, the innovation ultimately failed because the fields developed different organizing visions that could not be reconciled. The findings suggest that institutional misalignments within and between fields interact to amplify their overall effect on the adoption of hybrid innovations.

- by Raluca Bunduchi and +1
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- Information Systems, Information Management, Institutional Theory, Telehealth

Marketization-the entry of the market logic into a field originally insulated from it-is a transformative force that has reshaped many fields, including education, health care, the arts, and religion. Marketization brings a unique set of challenges for established organizations: it opens a field to market-style mechanisms of consumer choice and competition, which undermines the legitimacy of established organizations, and it creates contradictory demands for organizational actions. How can established organizations adapt to marketization? To answer this question, the authors study the adaptation of five established religious schools to the marketization of education in Brazil. They develop the novel hybridization strategy of nested coupling and explain that established organizations respond to marketization by balancing competing demands for differentiation and conformity. The authors show how religious schools nest the market logic within the religious logic by reconfiguring their resources to conform to market demands while differentiating themselves through their religious orientation. Nested coupling provides a novel strategic approach for established organizations in marketized or marketizing fields, such as hospitals, museums, and schools, to capitalize on a logic that preexists marketization and to create a unique competitive positioning in the market.

- by Rodrigo B . Castilhos
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- Education, Institutional Logics, Marketization, Conformity

Public sector organisations are confronted with growing health and social care needs in combination with severe resource constraints, prompting interest in innovative responses to such challenges. Public service innovation is poorly understood, particularly where innovators must navigate between the norms, practices and logics of public, private and civil society sectors. We contribute to the understanding of how innovating hybrid organisations are able to creatively combine co-existing logics. Case study evidence from newly established social enterprise providers of health and wellbeing services in England is utilised to examine how innovations are shaped by (i) an incumbent state or public sector logic, and two 'challenger' logics relating to (ii) the market and increasing competition; and (iii) civil society, emphasising social value and democratic engagement with employees and service users. The analysis shows how a more fluid and creative interplay of logics can be observed in relation to specific strategies and practices. Within organisations, these strategies relate to the empowerment of staff to be creative, financial management, and knowledge sharing and protection. The interplay of logics shaping social innovation is also found in relationships with key stakeholders, notably public sector funders, service users and service delivery partners. Implications are drawn for innovation in public services and hybrid organisations more broadly.

- by Caitlin McMULLIN and +1
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- Hybridity, Social Enterprises, Institutional Logics, Social Innovation

The theoretical puzzle of how organizations deal with contradicting logics has been extensively investigated during the past two decades. This stream of research has fo-cused on the cognitive, but has overlooked emotions and power, which are fundamental to the lived experience of logics, and to their constitution. Drawing on a 15-month ethnography of "Together," a Jewish-Palestinian organization in a mixed city in Israel, we explore how the organization succeeds in challenging societal dominant notions of ethno-nationalism by stimulating universalistic notions, and how it occasionally fails to do so, as ethno-nationalism creeps in. Our findings indicate that emotional control allows organizations to deal with contradictory logics and achieve their desired constellation , while unbidden emotions disrupt local efforts and enable changes in desired constellations of logics. Further, systemic power mediates the very experience of logics and the prospects of changing their constellation: Social asymmetry necessitates harder emotion work on behalf of the underprivileged, differentiating their experience of logics, and limiting the extent to which emotional eruption is a viable option. Thus, our study highlights the intersection of logics, emotions, and power, and how logics are managed and failed to be managed.

In this article, we consider a recent trend whereby private equity available from venture capital (VC) firms is being deployed toward mission-driven initiatives in the form of impact investing. Acting as hybrid organizations, these impact investors aim to achieve financial results while also targeting companies and funds to achieve social impact. However, potential mission drift in these VCs, which we define as a decoupling between the investments made (means) and intended aims (ends), might become detrimental to the simultaneous financial and social goals of such firms. Based on a content analysis of mission statements, we assess mission drift and the hybridization level of VC impact investors by examining their missions (ends/goals) and their investment practices (means) through the criteria of social and financial logic. After examining eight impact-oriented VC investors and their investments in 164 companies, we find mission drift manifest as a disparity between the means and ends in half of the VC impact investors in our sample. We discuss these findings and make suggestions for further studies.

- by Banu Ozkazanc-Pan and +1
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- Institutional Theory, Venture Capital, Institutional Logics, Impact Investing
- by Shilo Hills
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- Institution, Institutional Logics, Practice

Taking into account the institutional context, I refine and broaden the concept of entrepreneurial opportunities by introducing micro-level evaluative criteria based on underlying macro-level institutional logics. The existing focus on so-called lucrative opportunities, which is implicitly based on a market logic, narrows the overall actual set of potential opportunities, and neglects what I call the opportunity-entrepreneur desirability nexus. Enterprising individuals evaluate and pursue entrepreneurial opportunities based on various and frequently combined underlying institutional logics. The extensive institutional theory literature on managing diverse and sometimes contradictory institutional demands, for instance in the pursuit of hybrid ventures, thus offers theoretical insights that are appropriate and expedient for the analysis and theoretical advancement of the entrepreneurial opportunity notion.

- by Roger Friedland
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- Institutional Theory, Love, Value Theory, Political Theology

Adopting an institutional theoretic framework, this article examines the evolution and competitive dynamics of markets composed of multiple practices, beliefs, and rule systems. The 30-year historical analysis of the U.S. yoga market illustrates the coexistence of spirituality, medical, fitness, and commercial logics. Using data gathered through archival sources, netnography, in-depth interviews, and participant observations, the authors link shifting emphases on institutional logics and their sustenance to institutional entrepreneurs’ accumulation and transmission of cultural capital, strategies to legitimize plural logics, distinct branding practices, and contestations among the pervading logics. The study offers a managerial framework for managing conflicting demands of logics, conveying brand legitimacy, and creating a coherent brand identity in plural logic markets; in addition, it develops a theoretical account of links between institutional logics, competitive dynamics, and market evolution.

- by Gokcen Coskuner-Balli
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- Marketing, Brand Management, Yoga, Institutional Logics

Institutional environments exert significant effects on organizational behavior, structure, strategy, governance, and process. To gain competitive advantage, managers are striving for legitimacy while maintaining efficiency. In line with this thinking, we propose the developmental process of institution-driven and legitimacy- embedded efficiency, and emphasize the confluence of legitimacy and efficiency in the context of business mar- keting. We then highlight several promising directions for further research on the development of institutional theory and its application in business marketing. Finally, we present a brief summary of each paper in this special issue.

- by Zhilin Yang
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- Business, Marketing, Institutional Theory, Legitimacy
- by Roger Friedland
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- Max Weber, Institutional Logics, Institutional Value, Value Spheres

In this paper, we advance an analytic framework to help better trace the meaning and practice of CSR in developing countries. Drawing from an Institutional Logics approach combined with the Scandinavian Institutionalist perspective on the Circulation of Ideas, we suggest a two-step analytic framework where (1) circulated generalized assumptive logics relevant to mainstream CSR understanding are translated for applicability to developing countries generally and (2) through further circulation these translated logics are adapted toward a more context-specific relevant and meaningful application of CSR. Translation and adaptation form the basis of ongoing “editing processes” which we use to help tease out the multiplicity of institutional logics captured in the CSR literature pertaining to four specific countries of interest: China, India, Nigeria and Lebanon. Our analysis helps derive important implications in relation to supranational, as well as culturally embedded and nuanced institutional logics shaping CSR in developing countries. It also highlights the existence of a hybridity of entangled institutional logics shaping not only CSR expressions in the four focal developing countries, but also ensuing patterns of development.

Trade globalisation and climate change pose new challenges for food security in Africa. To unlock smallholder productivity, more understanding is needed of the institutional context and the role of development interventions , such as partnerships, in the food sector. This article proposes institutional logics as a theory and methodology for institutional diagnosis to gain insight into context-embedded negotiation and change processes created by project-based partnership interventions. We analyse the institutional logics of organisations active in the development of two value chains in Ghana to subsequently show how, in partnerships, these logics are negotiated in light of the objectives and interests of the intervention. The main findings are that donors, with their market and professionalisation logics, are quite influential, but many other development actors still adhere to principles of grassroots empowerment and social security. In the evolving partnership process, market logic remains strong, but coupled with institutional logics endorsing farmer empowerment and solidarity with the resource-poor. This is done in a process of bricolage in which field level implementers go against the dominant logic of project initiators: showing that newly introduced development logics are mitigated by an existing local structure fostering other development logics. The broader implication is that new development paradigms may need a considerable transition period to become mainstream. The concepts of institutional logics and bricolage as a diagnostic tool allow researchers to characterise the adherence to and blending of institutional logics by actors. This tool helps to understand the mobilisation strategy of the initiator and to follow the negotiation of logics that takes place amongst partners in partnerships. Detailed insights into the blending of potential partners' logics, pathways of negotiation processes and the plausible outcomes enable development practitioners to strategically prepare and manage their collaborative interventions.

- by Laurens Klerkx
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- Development Studies, Agricultural Development, Africa, Institutional Theory
- by Roger Friedland
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- Values, Institutional Theory, Martin Heidegger, Aesthetics and Politics
- by Roger Friedland
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- Sex, Institutional Logics, Religious Nationalism, Value Rationality

Globally, traditional family-based production and management is still the main form of agriculture. As with every industry, stakeholders in agriculture need information and, like all decision makers, are information processors with finite capabilities. A farm's capability depends on its typology. Of Mexico's 5.5m farms, only medium-scale and larger producers are likely to have the structured ICT processes and specializations that facilitate efficient identification and management of distribution channels. Every phase in the agricultural business process requires a degree of specialization. Distribution demands market knowledge, entrepreneurial skill, and expertise in negotiation and trading. Improving distribution demands that capital – time and effort – be invested to build knowledge and appropriate networks either directly, through professional managers with a deep knowledge of markets (intermediaries), alongside other farmers in a cooperative or marketplace, or with customers via a collaborative supply chain network. ICTs can establish new links between farmers, markets and end consumers, optimizing distribution channels and reducing transaction costs. Findings suggest that rather than helping producers individually, ICTs are used by the community as a management tool for cooperation by building relationship and through acquisition of knowledge.

- by El Ligartsal
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- Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, The Internet, Electronic Markets

This dissertation examines global, regional, state-, group-, and person-level processes involved in the growth of the movement formed around the constructed international language Esperanto. The Esperanto movement emerged in the global arena in the late nineteenth century as a response to inequalities in the nation-state field. In the course of several decades, the movement established a new global field based on the logic of equal communication through Esperanto and on the accumulation of cultural capital. While the field gained autonomy from the nation-state field, it has not been recognized as its equal. Persons endowed with cultural capital but lacking political and economic capital have been particularly drawn to Esperanto. Ironically, while attempting to overcome established unfair distinctions based on differential accumulation of political and economic capital, the Esperanto movement creates and maintains new distinctions and inequalities based on cultural capital accumulation.
At the regional level, the Esperanto movement became prominent in state-socialist Eastern Europe in the second half of the twentieth century. The movement found unexpected allies among independent states in the Eastern European periphery. The growth of the Esperanto movement as the modal movement in the region coincides with the institutionalization of a unique form of civility favoring comprehensive socio-cultural development and the fellowship principle. According to Eastern European civility, the familiar distinctions between the international and the domestic arenas, between the cultural and the political domains, and between the public and the private spheres taken for granted in the West become blurred. The organizational forms the Esperanto movement developed, its practices, and its grounding in three universalist discursive fields−world culture, Marxism, and fellowship−served as institutional carriers of Eastern European civility. The institutionalization of the hybrid Eastern European civility can explain the puzzling case of the Bulgarian transition to democracy. While the country lacked a Western-type civil society and a history of anti-communist contention, it still managed to establish a peaceful and stable democracy.
These findings are based on historical and comparative process tracing involving five independent data sources: original archival research, interviews, and participant observation, and available survey and organizational data.

- by Ana Velitchkova
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- Field Theory, Eastern European Studies, Political Culture, Cosmopolitanism

In 1993, Mats Alvesson published “Organizations as Rhetoric”. In his paper, Alvesson proposed that knowledge was ambiguous and that rhetoric was therefore critical to the construction and operation of institutions and organizations. Moreover, he argued that in such an ambiguous and thus rhetorical world, knowledge operated as an institutionalized myth and rationality surrogate. Alvesson's insights helped inspire and initiate one of the most promising and growing areas of institutional research: rhetorical institutionalism. Rhetorical institutionalism is the deployment of linguistic approaches in general and rhetorical insights in particular to explain how institutions both constrain and enable agency. In this paper, we trace these original insights and discuss the benefits of continuing the integration of rhetorical ideas in institutional research. In addition, we propose and develop a rhetorical model of institutionalism that can spearhead research and conclude with some direct suggestions for future research.

- by sandy green
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- Rhetoric, Structure, Institutional Theory, Language
- by Bernard Leca and +1
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- Institutional Logics, Orders of Worth, Instiuttional Analysis

Research shows that the ascendency of managerialism in the higher education sector and its fundamental contradictions with the professional values has placed misaligning identity claims upon academics. However, the identity tension that arises from the misfit between the professional ethos and the organisations' market-driven requirements, and the ways in which academics cope with it has received insufficient attention. In this article, grounded on a conception of identity that describes it as in-progress narratives available to people, I analyse the routine work of academics in a Canadian public university. The results reveal that they reflexively and situationally construct different versions of their professional selves to minimise the tensions between the co-existing yet contradictory identity claims. In so doing, I found that the academics undertake two discursive strategies of embracing and distancing. I explain how these 'identity work' mechanisms help to strike a balance between the two contradictory discourses and suggest some directions for future research.

- by Farshid Shams
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- Professionalism, Neoliberalism, Narrative and Identity, Institutional Logics

"Globally, health management information systems (HMIS) have been hailed as important tools for health reform (1). However, their implementation has become a major challenge for researchers and practitioners because of the significant proportion of failures of implementation efforts (2; 3). Researchers have attributed this significant failure of HMIS implementation, in part, to the complexity of meeting with and satisfying multiple (poorly understood) logics in the implementation process.
This paper focuses on exploring the multiple logics, including how they may conflict and affect the HMIS implementation process. Particularly, I draw on an institutional logics perspective to analyze empirical findings from an action research project, which involved HMIS implementation in a state government Ministry of Health in (Northern) Nigeria. The analysis highlights the important HMIS institutional logics, where they conflict and how they are resolved.
I argue for an expanded understanding of HMIS implementation that recognizes various institutional logics that participants bring to the implementation process, and how these are inscribed in the decision making process in ways that may be conflicting, and increasing the risk of failure. Furthermore, I propose that the resolution of conflicting logics can be conceptualized as involving deinstitutionalization, changeover resolution or dialectical resolution mechanisms. I conclude by suggesting that HMIS implementation can be improved by implementation strategies that are made based on an understanding of these conflicting
logics."

- by Ime Asangansi
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- Sociology, Organizational Change, Action Research, International Business

Institutional theory, and the institutional logics approach in particular, lacks the feelings that produce, sustain and disrupt institutional practice (Friedland, 2013; Voronov, 2014; Voronov and Vince, 2012). This is due in part to rational, instrumental understandings of the individual in practice, and in part to the cognitive and linguistic understanding of that practice, sustained by classification, qualification and belief. Emotion, a joining of language and bodily affect, is ready at hand for institutional theory. There is increasing recognition that emotion is a powerful device for institutionalization and de-institutionalization. In this essay, I consider emotion’s position in institutional theory and how we might position it in an institutional logics approach. I will argue that emotion not only mediates institutions, but can itself be institutional.

- by Roger Friedland
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- Emotion, Institutional Theory, Affect (Cultural Theory), Institutional Logics

The focus of this study is on who is effective and how they draw frameworks for organizations to start CRS activities.In this study, it is aimed to reveal the institutional actors and initiatives that mediate the diffusion and adaption of CSR activities which have become a popular practice for various reasons.In other words, this study seeks answers to the question of who the choreographers of corporate social responsibility are.The answer is related to the organizational field and institutional actors according to the new institutional theory. For this reason, the concepts of new institutional theory such as institutional actor and organizational field were utilized in the study. The research consists of a literature study to explore how various actors influence the diffusion of CSR in organizational fields. In this study, 16 main actors and their initiatives that have a global impact on the spread of corporate social responsibility were identified, in other words, 16 choreographers were encountered. When these are examined, CSR is influenced by actors representing both coercive and moral mechanisms, in other words, it is influenced by the normative, and regulativepillars of institutions. As the actors mentioned in the same way are composed of authorities, civil society organizations and professional organizations; it is seen that these activities are framed by representing the state, society and professional logic.

- by aini aman
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- Business, Institutional Theory, Human Resource Management, Outsourcing

The authors examine how competing institutional logics shape institutional fields. Specifically, they conceptualize control of the modern corporation as an evolving institutional field. They connect changes in the institutional field to the rhetoric and corresponding logics put forth by various corporate stake-holders vying for control of the firm. Changes in the corporate institutional field are represented as the diffusion of takeovers and takeover defenses. Corporate control rhetoric is traced in interviews with corporate board members. The authors argue that the rhetoric of corporate control shapes and establishes dominant stakeholder groups in the institutional field. They conclude with a brief discussion of their analysis and a call for further research.

- by sandy green and +1
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- Rhetoric, Corporate Governance, Institutional Logics, Takeovers

Recent critiques by Alvesson, Hallett, and Spicer have characterized neo-institutional theory (NIT) specifically as confronting a mid-life crisis and institutional theory (IT) more generally as uninhibited. While offering valid points, these critiques lack a fundamental understanding of how organizational institutionalism (OI) has become distinct from NIT. In contrast to NIT’s master hypothesis of isomorphism and focus on structural determinism, OI has made remarkable progress in explaining institutional variation and change. Notably, like organization theory more generally, OI is not a coherent theory, but rather a big tent community with its own set of internal differences, and at times confusing concepts. Rather than abandoning the concept of institutions, we suggest continued progress in OI requires greater clarification. Institutions are everywhere, but not everything, so it is important for researchers to specify which institutions are being studied, distinguish between institutions and culture, and ascertain the relationship between institutions and organizations.

- by Shelby Gai
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- Institutional Theory, Culture, Institutional Logics, Institutions

The article applies a field theory approach to further the analysis of grassroots movements in an urban context. By employing the theoretical framework of Strategic Action Fields merged with the concept of norm entrepreneurs and combined with an idea of networks of challengers, two parallel but different social movement networks in Poland are analyzed. In this comparison the authors discuss differences in strategy and political – discursive – opportunities mobilized within respective fields between the more established housing movement and an emerging Polish urban renewal movement in the light of on-going change in the urban realm. By comparing the networks of challengers in both fields and simultaneously trying to identify the dominant institutional logics within each, we test the usefulness of the Strategic Action Field approach.

- by Hanna Hellgren
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- Public Administration, Institutional Logics
- by maisa teixeira and +1
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- Institutional Theory, Institutional Logics, New Organizational Institutionalism

Institution beckons as a way for social theorists to configure society without assuming an ordered, coherent, consensual whole, a bounded collective entity. Institution beckoned to me as a religious phenomenon. I first figured institutional logics as polytheistic phenomena while working in Jerusalem in 1983-1984. Within its crenellated stone walls, the Israelite Temple once stood, with its veiled and heavily gilded cubic "Holy of Holies," one of the fullest empty spaces in the world. I am not an observant Jew, but wherever I walked in the city, that razed platform on which al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock now stand, that no-longer and not-yet there, was my point of orientation. For the Israelites the Temple had not been a representation of divinity; it was a site, a dwelling-place, for its absent presence to be available as invisible, unspeakable, unmeasurable, inaccessible in an empty stone box of possibility, uniquely filled with divine being. Pilgrims claimed they could see His fibrillating light there. In the main, if they could, people listened to liturgy. They saw nothing. The Holy of Holies, into which only the high priest was allowed to enter once a year on Yom Kippur, the "day of atonement," the day Jews asked God for forgiveness for their personal sins, was kept in darkness, just as Moses encountered God in a dark smoky cloud that blanketed Mt. Sinai. As the earliest Kabbalist Iyyun sources from the 13th century declared: "infinite light lies hidden within the mysterious darkness" (Mayse, 2014: 13). One can never know the oneness of God without seeing the unseeable blackness.

- by Roger Friedland
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- Institutional Theory, Martin Heidegger, Institutional Logics, Elliot Wolfson

This article analyzes the extent to which diverse institutional logics (stock market, privately held, civil society, public) are linked to the exercise of one important mode of media ownership power: public service orientation. The research draws on a content analysis of a total of fifty-one news organizations in Sweden, France, and the United States, representing, respectively, Hallin and Mancini's democratic corporatist, polarized pluralist, and liberal models. We find that two types of institutional logics—affordance and homogenization—shape the amount and type of public-service-oriented news. On average, public-service-oriented news was highest at civil-society-owned media, but there was significant variation within this category: We call this kind of institutional logic an affordance logic because it affords but does not guarantee a certain kind of news content. Public media, on the other hand, exhibited the least deviation across outlets within each country, thus exemplifying a strong homogenization logic. All forms of ownership, but especially privately held and civil society media, exhibited significant variations across individual organizations. Economic field dominance, as in the United States, did not produce greater homogenization across ownership fields as predicted by field theory.

- by Rodney Benson and +1
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- Economic Sociology, Media Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Media Studies

With this paper we aimed to explore the matter of space as a physical expression of institutional logics. Following recent discussions on the role of materiality in organizational discourse, this study focused on spatial dimensions of institutional logics, namely, spatialized logics. Utilizing Lefebvre's (1991) analytic distinction among three layers of space À conceived, lived, and perceived À we described the spatial expressions of distinct logics and the spatial relations among these logics. Drawing on a qualitative case study analysis of the world-renowned site of Jerusalem's Western Wall, we argued that logics take form in space, logics get embodied in different layers of space, and matters of discursive commensur-ability and leakages also have spatial expressions. To exemplify these claims we undertook a qualitative case study analysis of Jerusalem's Western Wall. The Wall is a 500-meter-long and two-millennia-old construction. We showed that, while in material and technical terms the

- by Gili S. Drori
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- Institutional Theory, Jerusalem, Institutional Logics, Organizational Space
- by Candace Jones
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- Institutional Logics, Practice, Materiality

This study identifies systemic problems in the New Zealand Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) in relation to the AIS capacity to enact a co-innovation approach, in which all relevant actors in the agricultural sector contribute to combined technological, social and institutional change. Systemic problems are factors that negatively influence the direction and speed of co-innovation and impede the development and functioning of innovation systems. The contribution in the paper is twofold. Firstly, it combines both innovation system functions and systemic problems in an integrated analysis to asses an AIS at a country level, which has not been done previously in AIS literature. Secondly, it deepens the generic literature on structural-functional innovation systems analysis by looking at the interconnectedness between systemic problems and how these create core blocking mechanisms linked to the prevalent institutional logics (historically built-up and persistent structures and institutional arrangements) of the AIS. Results indicate that the existing New Zealand AIS has three main blocking mechanisms related to three institutional logics: (i) competitive science in silos, (ii) laissez faire innovation, and (iii) science centered innovation. These findings resemble weaknesses of AIS in other countries, and provide supportive evidence that co-innovation principles in many places have not yet been translated into agricultural innovation policies due to persistent and interlocked blocking mechanism and institutional logics. They point to the absence of effective systemic innovation policy instruments that pro-actively stimulate and support co-innovation. These instruments facilitate the counteracting of individual systemic problems and have a more transformative ambition; tackling the key institutional logics that hinder co-innovation, and hence supporting ‘structural system innovation’

Ö z e t Bu çalışma bir örgütsel alanda yer alan çoklu kurumsal mantıkların uzun süre eş-zamanlı var olabilmelerini sağlayacak alternatif bir mekanizmanın mevcudiyetini sorgulamaktadır. Türkiye'de faaliyet gösteren müzelerin 2000-2015 yılları arasın-daki faaliyetleriyle ilgili olarak toplanan birincil ve ikincil veriler ışığında, alandaki müzelerin faaliyetlerinin kamu hizmeti ve piyasa mantıkları çerçevesinde sınıflan-dırılabilecekleri anlaşılmaktadır. Araştırma bulguları, özel müzelerin uygulamaları sonucunda ortaya çıkan piyasa mantığı ilkelerinin, ulusal müzeler üzerinden ala-na egemen kamu hizmeti mantığı ilkelerinin alanda, özellikle de müze-toplum boyutunda bıraktığı boşlukları doldurmayı hedeflediğini göstermektedir. Bu bağ-lamda, farklı mantıkların tamamlayıcıklarının bir örgütsel alanda bu mantıkların eşzamanlı olarak uzun süre var olabilmelerini açıklamada uygun bir mekanizma olabileceği söylenebilir.

Religion is a significant social force on organizational practices, yet has been relatively underexamined in organization theory. In this theoretical article I assert that the institutional logics perspective is especially conducive to examine the macro-level role of religion for organizations. The notion of the religious logic offers conceptual means to explain the significance of religion, its interrelationship with other institutional orders and embeddedness into and impact across interinstitutional systems. I argue for intra-institutional logic plurality and show that specifically the intra-religious logic plurality has been rather disregarded with a relative focus on Christianity and a geographical focus on 'the West'. Next, I propose the concept of inter-institutional logic prevalence and show that the religious logic in particular may act as a meta-logic due to its potential for uniqueness, ultimacy and ubiquity. Through illustrations from Islamic Finance and Entrepreneurship, I exemplify implications of logic plurality and prevalence for organizations and societies.

- by Amer Khan
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- Social Entrepreneurship, Microfinance, Institutional Theory, Institutional Change

While few studies examine the impact of policy changes on academic work from academic identity perspective, this chapter fills the gaps by constructing a framework for understanding the issue from the institutional logics perspective. Then it is applied in a Chinese university to examine the impact of new academic promotion policy on academic identity. It reveals that the reform resulted in a constellation of multiple logics, including family logic, state logic, corporate logic and profession logic, and hence a hybrid identity of academics is developed. Both the logics and identities help better understand the nature of academic work in China.

Miller McPherson’s approach to measuring the inherent duality of organizational forms and the environmental niches that they occupy is adapted and applied to an analysis of the institutional field of (outdoor) poverty relief organizations operating in New York City (1888-1917). In contrast to McPherson’s approach which emphasizes how organizations are differentially arrayed within “Blau space,” the focus in this paper concerns how organizational forms are distributed across an institutional “logic space” that is itself dually ordered and defined by the kinds of organizational forms that are understood to exist. The resulting niche maps are employed to trace out the jurisdictional conflicts that erupted during the Progressive Era between two competing organizational forms — scientific charities and settlement houses —each of which embodied a particular vision and practice for delivering social relief to the poor

- by John W Mohr
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- Sociology of Culture, Network Analysis, Michel Foucault, Institutional Logics

Significance Statement The emergence of social sector has become a driving force for organizational change and innovation in China. However, creating a social organization and scaling its impact in China's social sector are challenging under the conditions of strict regulations and complex institutional environment. Counterintuitively, our research demonstrates that it is this complex institutional environment that creates an impetus for actors to explore discretionary organizational structure and practice. Our research unpacks the underlying process and mechanisms and offers implications for understanding organizational change and innovation in Chinese context.

- by Chenjian Zhang
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- Institutional Theory, Social Enterprises, Institutional Work, Institutional Logics

This article employs rhetorical theory to reconceptualize institutionalization as change in argument structure. As a state, institutionalization is embodied in the structure of argument used to justify a practice at a given point in time. As a process, institutionalization is modeled as changes in the structure of arguments used to justify a practice over time. We use rhetoric surrounding the institutionalization of total quality management (TQM) practices within the American business community as a case study to illustrate how conceptualizing institutionalization as changes in argument structure can help show how institutions simultaneously constrain and enable social action.

- by sandy green and +1
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- Rhetoric, Legitimacy, TQM, Radical Innovation

Faith-based organisations have been at the forefront of efforts to meet human need and effect positive social change for centuries, and they continue to make significant contributions to social welfare. However, a paucity of empirical research into the nature of faith-based social entrepreneurship limits knowledge and theory development and hinders the effectiveness of faith-based initiatives. In response, this thesis explores how a religious worldview intersects with values, gender and institutional logics to influence social entrepreneurial activity. The thesis thereby aims to develop new theoretical insights into the contextual embeddedness of the process of social entrepreneurship.
Qualitative, interpretive research based on a social constructionist paradigm was conducted to explore how a religious faith context influences the enactment of social entrepreneurship. Comparative multiple case studies of eight social entrepreneurial organisations located in the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam were undertaken during the period 2016-18. Faith-based, faith-inspired and secular organisations participated in the research. Multilevel thematic analysis of data employed theoretical lenses of universal human values, gender and institutional logics.
The research showed that faith-based social entrepreneurship is a distinct, contextually embedded expression of social entrepreneurship. Findings suggest that a religious worldview, values and gender are discrete contexts that influence the what, where, how, who, when and why omnibus contexts in which social entrepreneurship is enacted. In a religious worldview context, social entrepreneurial organisations respond not only to well-documented social welfare and commercial logics but also to a religious metalogic. Consequently, faith-based social entrepreneurial organisations illuminate how organisations experience institutional complexity and manage paradoxical interlogic tensions.
The key insight and contribution of the thesis is that contexts of a Christian religious worldview and gender underscore the values-based nature of social entrepreneurship. Further, these contexts reveal the influence of faith, altruistic love and the logic of gratuitous giving on how social entrepreneurship is experienced and enacted.

- by Bruce Borquist
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- Social Entrepreneurship, Values, Intersectionality, Institutional Logics