Institutional logics in action [electronic resource] /
edited by Michael Lounsbury, Eva Boxenbaum.
- Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2013.
- 1 online resource (xii, 350 p.) : ill.
- Research in the sociology of organizations, v. 39b 0733-558X ; .
- Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 39b. .
Embedded in hybrid contexts : how individuals in organizations respond to competing institutional logics / Anne-Claire Pache, Filipe Santos -- Beyond the family firm : reasserting the influence of the family institutional logic across organizations / Samantha Fairclough, Evelyn R. Micelotta -- Putting new wine in old bottles : utilizing rhetorical history to overcome stigma associated with a previously dominant logic / Shilo Hills, Maxim Voronov, C.R. (Bob) Hinings -- Imageries of corporate social responsibility : visual recontextualization and field-level meaning / Markus A. Höllerer ... [et al.] -- Logic pluralism, organizational design, and practice adoption : the structural embeddedness of CSR programs / Mary Ann Glynn, Ryan Raffaelli -- Strange brew : bridging logics via institutional bricolage and the reconstitution of organizational identity / Lærke Højgaard Christiansen, Michael Lounsbury -- Instantiation of institutional logics : the "business case" for diversity and the prevalence of diversity mentoring practices / Shawna Vican, Kim Pernell-Gallagher -- The internal complexity of market logics : financial sophistication and price determination / Vince Feng -- Taking stock of institutional complexity : anchoring a pool of institutional logics into the interinstitutional system with a descendent hierarchical analysis / Thibault Daudigeos, Amélie Boutinot, Stéphane Jaumier.
The institutional logics perspective is one of the fastest growing new theoretical areas in organization studies (Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury, 2012). Building on early efforts by Friedland & Alford (1991) to "bring society back in" to the study of organizational dynamics, this new scholarly domain has revived institutional analysis by embracing a focus on the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of institutions. In doing so, it has embraced a more practice-centered approach to agency that emphasizes situated interactions, the importance of history, the role of both symbolic and material elements, and the study of cross-level processes and mechanisms. This two volume set, seededby an ABC Network conference held in Banff, Alberta, CANADA in June 2012, provides a fresh set of papers by scholars at the cutting edge of research on institutional logics. As a whole, the papers provide many novel theoretical insights about institutional logics in actionfocusing on their dynamics, complexity, and evolving relationship to actors as actors actively navigate their social worlds.