Venture Philanthropy and Practice Variations: The Interplay of Institutional Logics and Organizational Identities

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamaki Onishi
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Venture Philanthropy ◽  
Organizational Responses ◽  
Organizational Decision Making ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Venture Capitalism ◽  
Practice Variations

While institutional logics and organizational identity become effective theoretical lenses to analyze hybrid organizations, the literature often focuses on tensions between multiple logics or multiple identities and remains relatively silent regarding how logics and identities simultaneously constrain organizations and how organizations respond to incompatibilities as well as compatibilities between logic and identity. To address this gap, the present study draws from burgeoning research that theorizes identity as an integral part of the mechanism from which logics shape organizational decision making. I examined how social-welfare/commercial logics and social/businesslike identities directly and indirectly shape 138 organizations’ practices of venture philanthropy—a hybrid approach combining philanthropy and venture capitalism. The findings confirm identity’s overall mediating effects and offer new theoretical insights into organizational responses to logic–identity incompatibility, especially the dominant role of social identity in consistently suppressing external pressures from commercial logic, whereas businesslike identity overcomes social-welfare logic only associated with the nonprofit status.

scholarly journals Trade-Control Compliance in SMEs: Do Decision-Makers and Supply Chain Position Make a Difference?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Hauser
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Behavioral Ethics ◽  
Managerial Decision ◽  
Organizational Responses ◽  
Control Laws ◽  
Compliance Programs ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Compliance Program ◽  
Trade Control

AbstractIn recent years, trade-control laws and regulations such as embargoes and sanctions have gained importance. However, there is limited empirical research on the ways in which small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) respond to such coercive economic measures. Building on the literature on organizational responses to external demands and behavioral ethics, this study addresses this issue to better understand how external pressures and managerial decision-making are associated with the scope of trade-control compliance programs. Based on a sample of 289 SMEs, the findings show that the organizational responses of SMEs reflect proportionate adjustments to regulatory pressures but only if decision-makers are well informed and aware of the prevailing rules and regulations. Conversely, uninformed decision-making leads to a disproportionate response resulting in an inadequately reduced scope of the compliance program. In addition, the results indicate that SMEs that are highly integrated into supply chains are susceptible to passing-the-buck behavior.

澳門社會福利模式: 一個生産主導福利模式

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
偉良 賴
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Social Welfare System ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Welfare Model

本文的目標是分析澳門社會福利體系的特徵及探討它的模式。它的特徵包括偏低水平的社會福利開支，福利混合主義之供應模式，較低水平的社會權發展，有限度減少社會分層化，福利發展主要被政治經濟因素所主導。其實，澳門的社會福利體系擁有其他東亞地區福利體制之主要特徵，故它亦屬於生産主導福利模式。 This article is aimed to outline the features of Macao's social welfare system and identify its welfare model. The analysis shows that the welfare system is characterized by its low social welfare expenditure, mixed economy of welfare, underdevelopment of social rights, restricted impact on social stratification and the dominant role of the political-economic factors in social policy-making. It is argued that Macao's social welfare system has shared most of key features of other East Asian welfare regimes and therefore it can be regarded as a productivist welfare model.

The Multiplicity of Institutional Logics and the Heterogeneity of Organizational Responses

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 521-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Royston Greenwood ◽  
Amalia Magán Díaz ◽  
Stan Xiao Li ◽  
José Céspedes Lorente
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Organizational Responses

scholarly journals Institutional logics and practice variations in sustainability reporting: evidence from an emerging field

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeeshan Mahmood ◽  
Shahzad Uddin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Practice Variation ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Practice Variations

PurposeThis paper aims to deepen the understanding of logics and practice variation in sustainability reporting in an emerging field.Design/methodology/approachThis paper adopts the institutional logics perspective and its conceptualization of society as an inter-institutional system as a theoretical lens to understand reasons for the presence of and variation in sustainability reporting. The empirical findings are based on analysis of 28 semi-structured interviews with significant social actors, and extensive documentary evidence focusing on eight companies pioneering sustainability reporting in Pakistan.FindingsThis paper confirms the presence of multiple co-existing logics in sustainability practices and lack of a dominant logic. Sustainability reporting practices are underpinned by a combination of market and corporate (business logics), state (regulatory logics), professional (transparency logics) and community (responsibility logics) institutional orders. It is argued that institutional heterogeneity (variations in logics) drives the diversity of motivations for and variations in sustainability reporting practices.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper offers a deeper theoretical explanation of how various logics dominate sustainability reporting in a field where the institutionalization of practice is in its infancy.Practical implicationsUnderstanding the conditions that influence the logics of corporate decision-makers will provide new insights into what motivates firms to engage in sustainability reporting. A broader understanding of sustainability reporting in emerging fields will foster its intended use to increase transparency, accountability and sustainability performance.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to relatively scarce but growing empirical research on emerging fields. Its major contribution lies in its focus on how multiple and conflicting institutional logics are instantiated at the organizational level, leading to wide practice variations, especially in an emerging field. In doing so, it advances the institutional logics debate on practice variations within the accounting literature.

scholarly journals Hybrids Before Nonprofits: Key Challenges, Institutional Logics, and Normative Rules of Behavior of News Media Dedicated to Social Welfare

2020 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 790-810
Author(s):  
Sergio Sparviero
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Institutional Logic ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Social News ◽  
The Impact

This article proposes comparing nonprofit news organizations that prioritize social welfare goals with the hybrid organizational form that mixes the institutional logics of charities and business enterprises: the Social Enterprise. The institutional logic comprises organizing templates, patterns of actions and values. These Social News Enterprises (SNEs) are analyzed as hybrids mixing the institutional logics of commercial, public, and alternative news media. Financed by donations and the revenue from services, SNEs engage in public, investigative, and explanatory journalism. Normative behavioral principles of SNEs are used to compare the impact-based model of ProPublica with the growth-focused model of The Texas Tribune.

scholarly journals Know Your Counterparts: The Importance of Wording for Stakeholder Communication in Social Franchise Enterprises

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arne Bergfeld ◽  
Carolin Plagmann ◽  
Eva Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
External Stakeholder ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Social Franchise ◽  
The Social

Abstract Social enterprises pursue a dual mission: on the one hand, they strive for social purpose, while on the other, they try to achieve economic stability despite scarce resources. To achieve the dual mission, social enterprises avail themselves of both for-profit and non-profit institutional logics. Due to this combination of multiple institutional logics, such enterprises can be classified as hybrid organizations. This study focuses on these organizations and investigates tensions between social enterprises and various stakeholder groups caused by the use of commercial logics within the social sector. In particular, we examine the perception of commercial versus social welfare logics by various stakeholder groups, and investigate the effects on organizational communication. Our study is centered on social franchise enterprises. We use an exploratory qualitative research approach based on semi-structured interviews with 21 social franchisors and social franchisees of seven social franchise enterprises. Our main results suggest that the use of commercial logics in the social sector tends to decrease the legitimacy of social franchise enterprises in the eyes of internal stakeholders, the general public, and various (but not all) external stakeholder groups. Many stakeholders of social franchise enterprises show a strong aversion to commercial logics, and particularly to commercial terminology. Overall, we conclude that social franchise enterprises very consciously apply commercial and social welfare logics and use alternative terminology where necessary to retain legitimacy and prevent tensions.

Fifty Years of Development in the Singapore Economy: An Introductory Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (03) ◽  
pp. 1502002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Y. C. Lim
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Introductory Review

The papers in this volume provide a retrospective analysis of Singapore's economic development during the past 50 years, from the perspectives of different policy domains. This introductory review highlights common themes among the papers, chiefly the primacy of economic growth in driving social as well as economic policies, the interconnection between different policy arenas, the persistence of a particular development model despite sharp changes in policy direction, and the dominant role of the state. The authors collectively conclude that economic policy was both innovative and effective in the first two to three decades of independence, particularly in simultaneously delivering on both rapid economic growth and improved social welfare. In more recent decades, economic growth and social welfare for a significant minority of residents have begun to diverge. Looking ahead, there appears to be a consensus that slower GDP growth, higher productivity, a relative shift from manufacturing to services and from a global to a regional market orientation, and more vibrant and innovative local private entrepreneurs, are necessary for continued economic development. There is also consensus that public policy must pay greater attention to directly meeting the growing social needs of the population, especially the poor, low-income, elderly and other vulnerable groups.

Protecting Children under Financial Constraints: ‘Foster Mother Villages’ in Datong

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
XIAOYUAN SHANG ◽  
XIAOMING WU
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
The State ◽  
Foster Mother ◽  
The Past ◽  
Communist Ideology ◽  
The Government ◽  
Welfare Institution

China has a long tradition of Confucianism, it has also been dominated by a communist ideology for a few decades. How did these different beliefs and principles influence its welfare system in the past? Towards which direction is the system shifting when the balance of power between the state (the dominant ideology) and society (with its own traditions) has been changed? This article analyses the case of ‘Foster Mother Villages’ and the Datong Social Welfare Institution. The case of Datong shows that, although the influence of official communist ideology was dominant in the overall system of child protection in China, traditional factors were also influential. The dominant role of official ideology has to be underpinned by financial support from the state. Where the government failed to provide the support, the traditional factor became dominant in the main institutional arrangements: that is the reason why institutional care failed to replace foster care in Datong city. In the past 50 years, spanning the eras of both planned economy and market reform in China, the Datong Social Welfare Institution has protected more than 6,500 orphaned, lost and abandoned children, and most of these children have finally achieved a normal family life.

scholarly journals Contending institutional logics, illegitimacy risk and management accounting

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 795-824
Author(s):  
Monika Łada ◽  
Alina Kozarkiewicz ◽  
Jim Haslam
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Environment Impact ◽  
Organizational Responses ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Empirical Contribution

PurposeThis article explores the influence of duality in institutional logics on internal accounting, with a focus on a Polish public university. More particularly, we answer the research question: how does illegitimacy risk arising from the divergent pressures of the institutional environment impact management accountings in this institution?Design/methodology/approachThis paper seeks to uncover intricacies of notions of internal legitimacy façade, decoupling and counter-coupling in practice. It explores details of organizational responses involving management accounting aimed at reducing illegitimacy risk. Achieving good organizational access, the authors adopt a qualitative case study approach involving contextual appreciation/document analysis/participant observation/discussion with key actors: facilitating building upon theoretical argumentation through finding things out from the field.FindingsThe authors uncover and discuss organizational solutions and legitimizing manoeuvres applied, identifying four adaptation tactics in the struggle to support legitimacy that they term ‘ceremonial calculations’, ‘legitimacy labelling’, ‘blackboxing’ and ‘shadow management accounting’. These can be seen in relation to decoupling and counter-coupling. Ceremonial calculations supported the internal façade. Shadow management accounting supported pro-effectiveness. Legitimacy labelling and blackboxing helped bind these two organizational layers, further supporting legitimacy. In interaction the four tactics engendered what can be seen as a ‘counter-coupling’ of management accounting. The authors clarify impacts for management accounting.Research limits/implicationsThe usual limitations of case research apply for generalizability. Theorizing of management accounting in relation to contradictory logics is advanced.Practical implicationsThe article illuminates how management accounting can be understood vis-à-vis contradictory logics.Originality valueElaboration of the tactics and their interaction is a theoretical and empirical contribution. Focus on a Polish university constitutes an empirical contribution.

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