Moving Institutional Logics Forward: Emotion and Meaningful Material Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Friedland
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Linguistic Understanding ◽  
Material Practice ◽  
Meaningful Material ◽  
The Individual

Institutional theory, and the institutional logics approach in particular, lacks the feelings that produce, sustain and disrupt institutional practice. 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.

Pharmaceuticals, Money, and the Health Care Organizational Field

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Lipworth
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Organizational Field ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Theory Framework

Using an institutional theory framework, this chapter discusses the place of the pharmaceutical industry within the health care organizational field, and the wide-ranging effects the industry has on the other organizations in the field. It then provides a snapshot of the discourse that has emerged about the pharmaceutical industry, and about commercialization and marketization of the health care more generally. This paints a picture of deep ambivalence toward the pharmaceutical industry, both within and between stakeholder groups. The chapter ends with an effort to explain this ambivalence as the effect of competing institutional logics. This, in turn, points to some suggestions as to how the pharmaceutical industry might be better accommodated within the health care organizational field, without losing sight of the need for ongoing critique of industry behavior.

A Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Soccer Balls, Child Labour and Postcolonial Impoverishment

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 1055-1077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzad R. Khan ◽  
Kamal A. Munir ◽  
Hugh Willmott
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Soccer Ball ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Positive Light

Institutional entrepreneurship is typically portrayed in a positive light in the institutional theory literature, frequently symbolizing ideals of progress and innovation. In this paper, we explore a `darker' side of institutional entrepreneurship by considering how the long-standing institutional practice of child labour was eliminated from the world's largest soccer ball manufacturing cluster in Sialkot, Pakistan. Our focus is upon the operation of power rather than the agency of the coalition of entrepreneurs. We show how power operated hegemonically in solving and reporting the issue of child labour in a way that deflected attention from `darker' problematic aspects of this seemingly progressive and benign institutional reform. Consideration of these dynamics presents a challenge to conventional representations of institutional entrepreneurship and suggests the relevance of developing a more critical perspective when studying instances of institutional work.

scholarly journals Organizing alternatives : examining normative and alternative nonprofit organizing practices

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Peter Jensen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Organizational Problem ◽  
Communicative Constitution ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relations Of Power

Homelessness presents a massive organizational problem in the United States, with over 400,000 men, women, and children making use of shelter services each night. In this study, I take a comparative ethnographic approach to study how the use of the organizing Discourses of feminism, paternalism, neoliberalism, and anarchism result in more normative or alternative organizing practices. My project examines the organizing practices at two shelters for homeless women. One shelter is affiliated with an international religious nonprofit organization and self-identified anarchists run the other. Using the communicative constitution of organization (CCO) and institutional logics theories, I propose a theoretical framework for understanding how organizing Discourses are enacted or resisted at the organizational and individual level. My findings highlight how the institutional logics of responsibility, social welfare, and market manifest in different and sometimes paradoxical organizing practices based on the Discourse that is being translated. In this project, I highlight and critique how Discursive translations of institutional logics structure relations of power that impact agency at the individual and organizational level. My project has implications for understanding why the United States organizes around the social problem of homelessness the way it does, and explores alternatives to normative nonprofit organizing practices.

scholarly journals Change and institutional logic: overview and proposal of analysis of different institutionalist approaches

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayla Cristina Costa ◽  
Cristiane Marques de Mello
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Rational Point ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Institutional Logic ◽  
Sociological Institutionalism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Or Organization

During the past two decades, institutionalists have raised questions about “how” and “why” institutions change. The explanation of the process of institutional change also has a set of conflicting views, assumptions and divergent voices of dissent (Scott, 2008). Mahoney and Thelen (2010) claim that the three dominant approaches to institutional theory, sociological, historical and rational, point to problems in the explanation of institutional change. Our main goal is to raise the discussion about the main currents that explain institutional change, and contribute by way of identify the challenges that the institutional approaches have. We believe that to understand the process of institutional change is necessary to understand the mechanisms underlying the processes by which institutional models prevailing in a social context (country or organization or field) also appear (or not) on another. Also, we propose the use of institutional logic for analysis of institutional change.Keywords: Institutional Change. Institutional Logics. Sociological Institutionalism. Rational Institutionalism. History Institutionalism. Resumo Nas últimas décadas, institucionalistas têm levantado questões sobre “como” e “por que” instituições se modificam. A explicação sobre o processo de mudança institucional possui ainda um conjunto de concepções conflituosas, pressupostos divergentes e vozes discordantes (SCOTT, 2008). Mahoney e Thelen (2010) afirmam que as três abordagens dominantes da teoria institucional, sociológica, racional e histórica apontam problemas na explicação sobre a mudança institucional. Nosso principal objetivo é suscitar a discussão acerca das principais correntes que explicam a mudança institucional e contribuir por meio da identificação dos desafios que as abordagens institucionalistas possuem em suas explicações. Consideramos que para entender o processo de mudança institucional é necessário compreender os mecanismos subjacentes aos processos pelos quais modelos institucionais predominantes em um contexto social (país ou organização ou campo) também surgem (ou não) em outro. Por fim,  propõe-se o uso da perspectiva de lógicas institucionais para análise da mudança institucional. Palavras-chave: Mudança Institucional. Lógicas Institucionais. Institucionalismo Sociológico. Institucionalismo Racional. Institucionalismo Histórico.

RECONCILING COMPETING INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS IN CORPORATE VENTURE CAPITAL UNITS

2020 ◽  
pp. 2040004
Author(s):  
MARCEL AHLFÄNGER ◽  
MAGDALENA KOHUT ◽  
JENS LEKER
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Corporate Venture Capital ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Prior Literature ◽  
Corporate Venture

Prior literature highlights the competing institutional logics corporate venture capital (CVC) units have to face due to their intermediary position between the two environments in which they operate — the VC industry and the corporate firm. By conducting an inductive case study of 20 CVC units, we unravel how novel organisational subunits reconcile the conflicting logics in terms of their organisational structure. We show that, instead of fully aligning with one or the other environment, most units form hybrid organisations incorporating elements of both logics. Our data suggest that CVC units tend to follow the hybridisation strategy of selective coupling rather than apply strategies of compromising or decoupling. The type of structure depends on factors on the intra-, inter-organisational and industry level. We further suggest a specific hybridisation pattern that is especially beneficial in the achievement of a unit’s strategic objectives. Our findings contribute to both institutional theory and CVC literature.

Feral Systems as Institutional Phenomena

2017 ◽  
pp. 1454-1478
Author(s):  
Nelson King ◽  
Bijan Azad
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Social Actors

Feral systems, which sometimes manifest as computer workarounds, are recognized in the IT literature, but little attention has been paid to their persistence. The persistent reality of some computer workarounds may be traceable to discordant top-down institutional environmental pressures and bottom-up influences of day-to-day operational work. The authors build on the constructs of neo-institutional theory to de-black-box the workaround as situated practices built upon institutional logics of work practices, power to decouple by social actors, and material constraints of work. They extend the IT research on computer workarounds by casting them as emergent outcomes that exhibit institutional characteristics lending credence to the existence of feral information systems.

François Leuret: the last moral therapist

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward M Brown
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Treatment ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Psychological Therapy ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Moral Treatment ◽  
The Individual

By the 1840s French psychiatrists had abandoned Moral Treatment as an individual psychological therapy, as opposed to an institutional practice. One advocate of Moral Treatment, however, would not go along with this movement. In three books and several papers published between 1834 and 1846, François Leuret (1797–1851) advocated aggressive psychological treatment. Recent commentators have understandably concentrated on the controversies surrounding Leuret’s practices. What such an approach has failed to make clear, however, is that Leuret had a complex, systematic psychological theory supporting his clinical judgements. In addition to reviewing the controversies that surrounded Leuret, this paper spells out Leuret’s psychological theory and shows how he used this theory to think about the individual psychotherapy he provided for his patients.

Is co-created value the only legitimate value? An institutional-theory perspective on business interaction in B2B-marketing systems

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Massi ◽  
Michel Rod ◽  
Daniela Corsaro
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Content Type ◽  
B2b Marketing ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Marketing Systems ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Business To Business

Purpose This paper aims to deal with the concepts of “institutions” and “institutional logics” in the context of business-to-business (B2B) marketing systems and uses institutional theory as a framework to look at value co-creation. Design/methodology/approach By integrating the literature on value co-creation, institutional theory and institutional entrepreneurship, the paper argues that the boundaries of B2B marketing systems are continuously reshaped through legitimation processes occurring through actors’ institutional work, thus making co-created value the only legitimate value. Findings The paper proposes a conceptual framework and furthers the conceptual development of value co-creation and augments the literature on service-dominant logic and the notion of co-created value by assuming a legitimacy-based B2B market systems perspective. Practical implications This paper presents a number of propositions that serve to illustrate several managerial implications. These arise from organizations co-creating value by conforming to the various institutional logics that maximize their legitimacy. Originality/value The paper makes a contribution by developing a critical theoretical framework based on the application of institutional theoretical constructs/concepts (e.g. ceremonial conformity, decoupling, considerations of face, confidence and good faith).

scholarly journals Examining Institutional Content of the Balanced Scorecard: Logics and Translations in Ukrainian Business Environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-164
Author(s):  
Svitlana Firsova
Keyword(s):  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Local Logic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

This study examines institutional definitions and meanings Ukrainian managers attach to one of the most popular management concepts – the Balanced Scorecard. Socially constructed discourses, that is, beliefs, understandings, expectations, interpretations, collective cognitions and meanings beyond initial technical purposes of the BSC are treated as an institutional content that infuses and distorts technical aspects of the practice. Results confirm that technical foundations of this practice have been infused with institutionally constructed meanings and understandings generated from the local dominant institutional order, constructing the meaning of the BSC as a coercive, command-and control management system. Gathering information from local sources of information and strengthening them with collective understandings, the BSC has been infused with new meanings and beliefs, dramatically changing the original technical core of the concept. The study shows how the meaning of the management concept changed in the new institutional context under the dominance of the local logic. Specifically, the study contributes to the individual-level research on the impact of institutional logics on actors’ actions by showing the process of individuals’ responses to two macro-level meaning systems materialized in the BSC – prototypical and home institutional logics.  

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