Institutional Logics Perspective A New Approach to Culture, Structure, and Process
A New Approach to Culture, Structure, and Process
1st Edition
Published on 16. February 2012
249 pages
978-0-19-162853-5 (ISBN)
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The book analyzes, synthesizes, and further develops theoretical and methodological tools in the rising new school in institutional analysis, the institutional logics perspective, which offers opportunities to examine how individual and organizational actors are a product of multiple social locations in an inter-institutional system.
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Patricia H. Thornton | William Ocasio | Michael Lounsbury
The Institutional Logics Perspective
A New Approach to Culture, Structure, and Process
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02/2012
Oxford University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1. Introduction to the Institutional Logics Perspective
- Introduction
- Institutional Logics as an Analytical Framework
- Aims of the Book
- Analytical Style of the Book
- Institutional Analysis as Interdisciplinary
- Pointing the Way to a New Approach
- Social Structure and Action
- Institutions as Material and Symbolic
- Institutions as Historically Contingent
- Institutions at Multiple Levels of Analysis
- Contents of the Book
- Precursors
- Macro-Societal Level
- Micro and Meso-Individual and Organization Levels
- Micro and Macro-Individual and Societal Levels
- Meso and Macro-Organization and Institutional Field Levels
- Meso and Macro-Institutional Field and Societal Levels
- Synthesis
- Conclusion
- 2. Precursors to the Institutional Logics Perspective
- Introduction
- Theories of Isomorphism
- Variant: Micro Level
- Elaboration: From Societal Culture to Field Structure
- Elaboration: Origin, Reproduction, Disappearance
- Variant: Logic of Instrumentalism, of Appropriateness
- Variant: From Structural to Cognitive and Cultural
- Variants: Logics of Action
- Integration: Three Pillars and Carriers of Institutions
- Proliferation: Institutional Logics
- Variant: A Focus on Normative Dimensions
- Discussion and Conclusion
- Appendix: Comparison of Propositions:
- J. W. Meyer and Rowan (1977)
- DiMaggio and Powell (1983)
- 3. Defining the Interinstitutional System
- Introduction
- Definitional Differences
- The Interinstitutional System as Ideal Type
- Institutional Orders: The X-Axis
- Institutional Orders: The Y-Axis
- Partial Autonomy: Cognitive and Organizational Loose Coupling
- Partial Autonomy: Near-Decomposability of Institutional Orders
- Definition of Institutional Fields
- Cultural Content: Cells of the X, Y Axes
- Cultural Space in Society
- Cultural Effects on Power and Agency
- Proliferation: Rearranging the Institutional Orders
- Variant: Community as an Institutional Order
- Discussion and Conclusion
- Appendix
- 4. Microfoundations of Institutional Logics
- A Model of Human Behavior: Situated, Embedded, Boundedly Intentional Behavior
- Modeling the Microfoundations
- Dynamic Constructivism
- An Integrative Model of the Microfoundations of Institutional Logics
- Social Identities, Goals, and Schemas
- Focus of Attention
- Top-Down Effects of Institutional Logics and Organizational Practices
- Bottom-Up Environmental Stimuli
- Availability, Accessibility, and Activation
- Automatic and Controlled Attentional Processes
- From Activation to Social Interaction
- From Social Interactions to Organizational Identities and Practices
- Decision Making
- Sensemaking
- Mobilization
- Implications of the Model of Microfoundations
- Conclusion
- 5. Stability and Change in the Interinstitutional System
- Introduction
- Evolutionary-Systems Level
- Historical Interdependence of Institutional Orders
- Individual-Societal-Level Effects on Institutional Change
- Cultural Entrepreneurship
- Case Narrative: Penney Segregates Family, Blends Religion and Corporation
- Case Narrative: Sperling Segregates the Professions and Blends the Market and Corporation
- Case Narrative: Ettinger Blends Family, State, Market, and Corporation
- Cross-Narrative Discussion
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- 6. Dynamics of Organizational Practices and Identities
- Introduction
- From Social Interaction to Practices and Organizational Identities
- The Dynamics of Practices and Identities in Organizations
- The Dynamics of Practices and Identities Across Organizations
- Conclusion
- 7. The Emergence and Evolution of Field-Level Logics
- Introduction
- A Model of Cultural Emergence
- Societal and External Logics
- Symbolic Representations: Theories, Frames, and Narratives
- Resource Environments and their Effects on Institutional Logics
- Vocabularies of Practice and the Emergence of Field-Level Logics
- Evolution and Change in Field-Level Logics
- Conclusion
- 8. Implications of the Institutional Logics Perspective
- Implications for Other Disciplines and Substantive Research Domains
- Historical and Comparative Analysis of Institutions
- Institutional Complexity
- Social Movements
- Cultural and Institutional Entrepreneurship
- Institutional Work
- Organizational Identity
- Organizational Design
- Strategy
- Microprocesses
- Methods of Analysis
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
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- D
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