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Social enterprises combine activities, processes, structures, and meanings associated with multiple institutional logics that may pose conflicting goals, norms, values, and practices. This in-depth multi-source case study of an ecological social enterprise in Malaysia reveals how the enactment of the family logic interacts with the market and ecological logics not only in conflicting but also in synergetic ways. By drawing attention to the institutional logic of the family in social entrepreneurship, this study highlights the heterogeneity of social enterprises. The findings have implications for research with social enterprises and family-owned firms in relation to the ethical obligations of these organizations and the interactions of multiple logics.

Our aim was to verify the ‘institutional logics’ of corruption through the discursive patterns of managers. We conducted an exploratory survey using a qualitative-quantitative method. The interviews were submitted to content analysis, using the Atlas.TI software and the questionnaire was applied by SurveyMonkey. As a methodological contribution, four categories and levels for analyzing the logic of corruption were constructed: Individual, Organization, Networks, and Interinstitutional System. We infer that understanding the institutional logic of corruption can promote a transformation of corrupt behavior and an institutional change by individual cognition that can lead to practical change in society.

Hybrid practices incorporate conflicting institutional logics and are recognized for their capacity to cope with societal problems. Previous literature has concentrated on the hybridization mechanisms inherent in organizations. This focus on an entity has diverted attention away from equivalent mechanisms that operate in wider social systems – specifically, in organizational fields. In this article, I show how discourses can enable such mechanisms. To that end, descending hierarchical classifications were performed on media outlets to study the discourse on the emergence of servitization in France. The results reveal two original mechanisms enabled by discourses and supporting the hybridization of the practice under study: (1) practice renaming and (2) the pivotal role played by the institutional logic of environmental protection. Based on these results, I propose a model detailing how institutional logics and discourses interact to bring about a hybrid practice. This model offers original insights to develop knowledge on hybrid organizing and promote practices that realign business goals with those associated with social welfare and preservation of the natural environment.

PurposeEmploying institutional logic and institutional work as its theoretical framework, this study analyzes scholars' reactions to performance measurement systems in academia.Design/methodology/approachLarge datasets were collected over time, combining both quantitative and qualitative elements. The data were gathered from a two-wave survey in 2010 (966 respondents) and 2015 (672 respondents), conducted among scholars performing teaching- and research-oriented tasks in three Finnish universities.FindingsThe analysis showed statistically significant changes over time in the ways that the respondents were positioned in three major groups influenced by different institutional logics. This study contributes to the international debate on institutional change in universities by showing that in Finnish universities, emerging business logics and existing professional logics can co-exist and be blended among a growing group of academics. The analysis of qualitative open-ended answers suggests that performance measurement systems have led to changes in institutional logic, which have influenced the scholars participating in institutional work at the microlevel in academia.Social implicationsWhile most scholars remain critical of performance measurement systems in universities, the fact that many academics are adapting to performance measurement systems highlights significant changes that are generally occurring in academia.Originality/valueWhile most extant studies have focused on field- and organizational-level analyses, this study focuses on understanding how the adoption of performance measurement systems affects institutional logic and institutional work at the microlevel. Moreover, the study's cross-sectional research setting increases society's understanding of institutional evolution in academia.

This study investigates how environmental entrepreneurs engage with identity work to develop a sense of self based on environmental and commercial institutional logics and how these efforts relate to a meaningful entrepreneurial experience. Drawing on interviews and additional data from 26 environmental entrepreneurs, the findings highlight identification, disidentification, responses to institutional contradictions, and emotions as central constituents of environmental entrepreneurs’ identity work. Furthermore, the article shows how environmental entrepreneurs perceive their entrepreneurial endeavors as meaningful or experience a lack of meaning when enacting their identities. This article contributes to environmental entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial identity, and institutional logics by discussing the link between identity and meaningfulness, the role of emotions in entrepreneurial identity work, and the dark side of meaningfulness in entrepreneurship.

A growing number of organizations are hybrid organizations with ambiguous goals subjected to plural institutional logics. Many culture financiers not only need to handle an institutional logic of m...

Aim: To explore prevailing discourses on nursing competence in homecare nursing to boost understanding of practice within this field. Design: A qualitative study with a social constructivist perspective. Methods: Six focus-group interviews with homecare nurses in six different municipalities in Norway. Adapting a critical discourse analysis, data were linguistically, thematically and contextually analysed in the light of theories on competence, institutional logic and discourses. Results: The analysis found homecare nursing to be a diverse and contradictory practice with ever-increasing work tasks. Presented as binary oppositions, we identified the following prevailing discourses: individualized care versus organizing work; everyday-life care versus medical follow-up; and following rules versus using professional discretion. The binary oppositions represent contradictory requirements that homecare nurses strive to balance. The findings indicate that medical follow-up and organizational work have become more dominant in homecare nursing, leaving less time and attention paid to relational and everyday-life care.

This research explores the hidden curriculum of a psychology career at an Argentine private university. It explores the learnings neither specifics nor anticipated that happened during the study of the career. The qualitative methodology is used, based on interviews in fifteen students, as information source. Five dimensions are identified in the hidden curriculum: hospital, humanity formation, centrality of the person, institutional logic and psychologist of this university. These are related to the context (physical and emotional) of the school, except for what is called a university´s psychologist that encompasses the professional identity. The findings confirm the existence of a hidden curriculum of this psychology career; however, it is necessary to broaden the exploration in the perspective including new actors and other methodological strategies.

The article presents the results of studying professional discourse on the boundaries of professiona­lism in modern journalism. The author proceeds from the ideas of the need to rethink professionalism in the context of digital transformation. Based on the discourse and institutional approach and the concept of institutional logic, the author analyzes interviews with journalists about the profession published over the past three years in professional and socio-political news outlets. Based on Russian and foreign studies of professionalism in journalism over the past six years, the author suggests using discourse analysis to identify the dynamics of ideas about the profession. Previous studies have confirmed the reliability of the method in studying the components of professionalism. In this article, discourse analysis was supplemented by interpretation of institutional logics. The results of the study show that the dominant discourse is anchored in such ideas as preserving the traditions of journalism, articulating the values and mission of journalism, focusing on the best examples of journalistic practice, observing ethical standards, transparency of ideological positions and editorial policy. In general, for the professional discourse of the past three years, there has been a request to discuss the problem of unity within the community. It is concluded that journalists have adapted to modern professional conditions associated with technological changes; however, there is nostalgia for traditional journalistic practices of the past, since modern practices reflect uncertainty of the present, that is a si­tuational choice of values and morality. Radical moods are also present in the discourse: the profession does not exist, the community is split, the search for consensus is impossible.

The transformation of the institutions of marriage, family and parenthood in recent decades in the context of rapid social, economic, cultural and technological innovations worldwide encourages theorists to look for explanations of the nature and direction of the processes that are taking place. American sociologists of the family Stan Knapp and Greg Wurm present a rather promising systematization of the theoretical approaches to changes in the institution of the family. The criteria of approaches according to the authors’ typology: relationality – vertical / horizontal, and dimensionality – single / multidimensional.This article’s purpose is to reflect on this typology so that Russian researchers go beyond theorizing in the framework of “opposing paradigms of crisis – modernization of the institution of family” disputes, which are more ideological than scientific.The institutional approach is widely represented in the works of classics of foreign and Russian sociology of the family. The classic institutional approach is expanded upon by the works of representatives of the new institutional approach. In the approach of deinstitutionalization, the main emphasis is placed on increasing individual needs, with “family” being a “pure relationship”. The diversification approach, which was mentioned among others by the author of this very article in the mid-1990’s, seems to be the most constructive from an empirical point of view. The article shows the diversification of the family institution, the spread of new family structures in many countries with references to empirical studies and statistical sources. Knapp and Wurm, the authors of the presented typology, consider the approach of institutional logic in relation to the family to be promising. The main problems of its application are discussed in article.The application of the classical theory of family development, as it was formulated in the 20th century when normative family paths were dominant, is also problematized, together with the lack of Russian longitudinal studies and works that describe modern family life paths.What western sociologists agree on, and what the analysis of Russian studies confirms, are the differences in the models of organizing private life in different social groups, at least among educated and uneducated citizens. Analysis of trends in the prevalence of alternative forms of family life in different social groups allows us to assess the nature of changes in the institutions of marriage and family, either as evolutionary or transformational.

Based on case studies of religious Muslim and Christian family firms operating in a religiously diverse country, we explain the multiplicity of family, business, religion, and community logics in the family firm. In particular, we give attention to the religion logic and how it interacts with other logics when family firms are considering ethical issues. We show that religion has a rule-based approach in Muslim family firms and a principle-based approach in Christian family firms. We also draw attention to the fluidity characteristic of the religion logic, through which family firms interpret the role of religion among other logics in influencing ethical decisions. Our study advances institutional logics literature in highlighting the plurality between and within logics in family firms, and contributes to the growing recognition of the influence of religious beliefs on the ethical behaviors of family firms.

This paper applies the concept of total institutions, introduced by Erving Goffman, to the case of special care institutions for people with intellectual disabilities in present-day Russia. These institutions represent a classic type of organization that could be studied through the lenses of the total institutions theory and demonstrate the typical features of such institutions, among them the crowded conditions in which the inmates live, a lack of privacy, universal scheduling of daily routines, strict hierarchy, a system of punishments and privileges as an instrument of control, and exploitation of inmate labour for the benefit of the institution. Drawing upon data generated by participant observation and implementing the analytical frame of symbolic interactionism at the level of routine interactions, this paper questions the 'totality' of the control mechanisms, power relations, and standardization processes found within the special care institutions for people with disabilities. One conclusion is that, although inner life in a total institution is to a certain extent subject to strict official rules, it is not limited to them. This 'total' character is manifested at the level of the structural organization of the institutions, institutional logic, and the staff’s discourses, but not at the level of routine interactions. One factor challenging the totality of these institutions is the emergence of new attitudes to people with disabilities manifested by NGO volunteers, who confront the dominant patriarchal approach. In their practice they implement principles of 'normalization' ideology that helps to enhance the agency of the inmates. This enhanced agency plays an important role in managing the 'totality' in everyday interactions with the staff.

Because we are speaking against “values,” people are horrified at a philosophy that ostensibly dares to despise humanity’s best qualities. For what is more “logical” than that a thinking that denies values must necessarily pronounce everything valueless? Martin Heidegger, “Letter on Humanism” (2008a, p. 249).

The authors contribute to practice-driven institutionalism by examining how the introduction of new field-level evaluation practices may facilitate encroachment of highly institutionalized organizational fields by new institutional logics. The authors conducted an inductive study of a trial of social impact bonds in the field of social integration services in Finland. Our analysis elaborates how new field-level evaluation practices created an experimental space that induced organizational practice experimentation, reconfigured relationships among field members, and lowered the barriers to entry for new organizations. The authors theorize how evaluation practices may create experimental spaces by suspending the carriers of established logics and legitimizing institutional innovations. The authors further elaborate how such spaces can bring about a parallel “shadow field” by inducing bottom-up experimentation aligned with a new institutional logic.

Narrow, managerially centered notions of organizational culture remain hegemonic, marginalizing richer, anthropological approaches as well as efforts to understand how the beliefs and practices of organizations are fundamentally shaped by the wider societal dynamics within which they are embedded. In this paper, the authors draw upon recent efforts to explore the interface of scholarship on practice and the institutional logics perspective to highlight the utility of a practice-driven institutional approach to the study of organizational culture that brings society back in. Empirically, the authors present a longitudinal case study of a Chinese private enterprise, and analyze how the unfolding dynamics of a strong community logic increasingly affected by a rising market logic, shaped the formation of political coalitions internally and externally as organizational members aimed to maintain truces between the push and pull of logics over a period of 22 years. Through an analysis of seven episodes that we conceptualize as “cultural encounters,” the authors find that a combination of compartmentalization and overall integration of logics contributes to provisional truces, and that people in the same cohort who share common geographic socialization are more likely to form allies. Our aim is to encourage future scholars to study how societal beliefs and practices work their way into organizations in a variety of explicit as well as more mundane, hidden ways.

Studies of institutional complexity have explored how multiple logics influence organizational practices. This article illustrates how a single logic is maintained through its heterogeneous enactments and practices, via strong identification, in this case, with the logic of humanitarianism. Using the case of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), we develop a theory around identity work and the heterogeneous enactment of institutional logic. We illustrate, via three historical examples, how MSF engaged in radically different practices across time and space, while adhering to a continuous yet polymorphous humanitarian logic. We explain this apparent paradox by referring to the internal contradictions within humanitarian logics, contradictions that do not lead to chaos because of the persistent cohesion effects of identity. We discuss implications for understanding organizational identity and institutional diversity. Resumo Estudos de complexidade institucional exploraram como múltiplas lógicas influenciam as práticas organizacionais. No presente artigo, ilustramos como se mantém uma lógica única por meio de suas representações e práticas heterogêneas e de uma forte identificação, neste caso, com a lógica do humanitarismo. Usando o caso de Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), desenvolvemos uma teoria em torno do trabalho de identidade e da atuação heterogênea da lógica institucional. O artigo oferece três exemplos históricos de como o MSF se engajou em práticas radicalmente diferentes ao longo do tempo e do espaço, ao mesmo tempo que aderiu a uma lógica humanitária contínua, porém polimorfa. Esse aparente paradoxo é explicado a partir das contradições internas observadas na lógica humanitária, contradições que só não levam ao caos em virtude dos persistentes efeitos de coesão da identidade. Discutimos as implicações para a compreensão da identidade organizacional e da diversidade institucional. Resumen Los estudios de complejidad institucional exploraran cómo lógicas múltiples influencian las prácticas organizacionales. En el presente artículo, ilustramos cómo se mantiene una lógica única por medio de sus representaciones y prácticas heterogéneas y de una fuerte identificación, en este caso, con la lógica del humanitarismo. Usando el caso de Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), desarrollamos una teoría en torno al trabajo de identidad y de actuación heterogénea de la lógica institucional. El artículo ofrece tres ejemplos históricos de cómo el MSF se involucró en prácticas radicalmente diferentes a lo largo del tiempo y del espacio, a la vez que se adhirió a una lógica humanitaria continua, no obstante, polimorfa. Esa aparente paradoja se explica a partir de las contradicciones internas observadas en la lógica humanitaria, contradicciones que solo no conducen al caos debido a los persistentes efectos de cohesión identitaria. Discutimos las implicaciones para la comprensión de la identidad organizacional y de la diversidad institucional.

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.

This article explores the ways in which competing institutional logics influence the knowledge base of the police, ideas about good police practice and organizational identities. A tension between the humanistic professional police logic and the instrumental New Public Management (NPM) logic is discussed in the context of policing. While the humanistic professional police logic gradually emerged in the 1960s and 70s, over the past twenty years the police force has been reformed in line with the NPM logic. Through qualitative interviews and a quantitative study of the police force, the article investigates the ways in which the ideas of what constitutes a normative good practice are shaped in relation to these two, opposing, logics. A central finding is that despite many years of NPM as the dominant steering logic, a humanistic professional logic persists. However, the shift towards the NPM logic transforms the knowledge base in a more evidence-oriented direction and affects the ideas of normative good practice, especially among police management.

This article discusses certain challenges relating to interagency collaboration between the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) and Child Welfare Services (CWS). We have asked what obstacles to holistic work with low-income families who receive measures from NAV and CWS simultaneously can be identified. The departure point is collaboration on a local project at the municipal level. The differences between the views of the individual services (and the mandates based on these views) with regard to parental obligations have proved challenging. Using the theory of institutional logic, we have explored how different logics have influenced these services’ approaches to parenthood and the significance of these influences for interagency collaboration. We have also investigated how caseworkers in the two services have managed to create reflective spaces for negotiating and bridging various understandings to create new ways of working together. In addition to collecting and analysing data, our task as researchers has been to facilitate joint working processes in the project. The article is based on interviews with caseworkers from both services, discussions during two workshops, and a subsequent dialogue seminar with employees from the two services.

Nonprofit organizations in Russia are introducing for-profit activities as a means of gaining autonomy from external donors, and as instruments of strategic planning and sustainable development. This study focuses on organizations that work with welfare provision and explores how they reconcile entrepreneurial activities with their social mission. More specifically, we interrogate how two institutional logics, business and nonprofit, are defined and reconciled in organizational identities, structures and hierarchies. Socially oriented nonprofits define their mission through service to beneficiaries, through personal and professional dedication to beneficiaries’ well-being, and through making an impact on public policies and the society at large. They mimic a business approach in strategic planning and meticulous reporting, but subordinate profit-seeking to social mission by integrating entrepreneurial activities into already existing organizational structures, or by separating them into independent entities.

This article examines the case of minority language education in China, an area of enquiry that has received increasing attention as new studies report on how the lack of institutional recognition that minority languages receive erodes ethnic minority identities and disempowers social actors living in minority areas. Drawing on Williams’ (Marxism and literature, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977) notion of “structures of feeling”, as well as on Woolard’s (Am Ethnol 12(4):738–748, 1985) critical take on the concepts of integrated linguistic market and culture hegemony, we empirically analyse individuals’ engagement with normative meanings and values linked to language policies. In particular, we focus on situated practices at a secondary school located in an ethnically diverse city in southwestern China in which Tibetans constitute the largest ethnic minority group. Our data show emergent communicative forms, or “structures of feeling”, through which school actors enact, challenge and shape an institutional logic that marginalises the Tibetan section within the school while constructing Tibetan language education as a pedagogical space with no room for Tibetan religious content. In so doing, our analysis sheds light on complex on-the-ground dynamics, with focus on shifting values on what constitutes appropriate knowledge and a “good” minority language school vis-a-vis wider socio-institutional processes of transformation.

Both business historians and organisation studies scholars study institutional change to understand the interactions between business and society. However, research approaches differ fundamentally, with organisational research focusing on theory-driven explanations, whereas historical research is rather theory-informed. The consequence of such disciplinary orientation is that interdisciplinary conversations rarely occur. For this special issue, we invited submissions that address how historical research can contribute to our understanding of institutional change while demonstrating ‘dual integrity’ in terms of being significant pieces of historical research that provide us with new insights into historiography and at the same time addressing important theoretical concerns.

RESUMO No contexto de gestão organizacional e visando o aprofundamento do conhecimento no campo da Contabilidade Gerencial, esta pesquisa propôs um constructo que contribui com a compreensão sobre a percepção dos gestores sobre a sociomaterialidade de práticas de contabilidade gerencial (PCG) com base na lógica institucional cerimonial (uso baseado em ritos) versus a instrumental (uso baseado na resolução de problemas) valendo-se da Nova Sociologia Institucional (NIS) e das digressões de Bush (1983, 1987). Por meio de um levantamento em 102 organizações não financeiras de grande porte que operam no Brasil, identificou-se que, dependendo do arranjo de forças isomórficas e de difusão a que as PCG estão submetidas, elas são levadas a assumir comportamentos cerimonial (5%), instrumental (61%) ou misto (26%). Pode-se inferir que nessas organizações as PCG estão sendo usadas prioritariamente como tecnologias para a resolução de problemas e contribuem com alteração do contexto onde estão inseridas.

The article explores the strategies utilised by frontline workers at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare administration (NAV) to motivate unmotivated users to return to work. NAV is entrusted with both welfare services and returning unemployed citizens to work. The data analysed consists of eight focus groups conducted at local NAV offices. The analysis identifies three different strategies employed by the frontline workers. These three strategies are termed ‘opportunity talk’, ‘work talk’ and ‘identity talk’, reflecting the reliance on dialogue. The article argues that these three strategies are part of a schema that is operationalizing ‘an asset model of activation’, and rely on a shift in the understanding of work, traditionally seen as a burden, to an understanding of work as beneficial to health and wellbeing. The results imply that the frontline workers are key to the successful implementation and operationalization of activation policy.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the multi-level mechanisms of institutional formation and change and, in particular, how this occurs through the interplay of multi-level mechanisms? This is answered with a processual analysis of the International Paralympic Committee which is the international governing body of sports for people with an impairment. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a case-study approach based upon archival records, collected in relevant national and international sport organizations. More than 2,700 pages of archives were gathered, some of them being accessible to researchers for the first time. Embargo was also successfully lifted on recent and sensitive documents. Findings This study highlights multi-level mechanisms involved in institutional change processes triggered by a shifting institutional logic at the organizational field level. This paper also shows how field logic shifted at the moment of alignment between the societal, field and organizational levels. Moreover, it underlines how societal discourses influenced processes of institutional change by shaping the range of organizational actions available at the organizational and field levels. Originality/value This paper proposes a rare account of institutional change processes in which interplay between the societal, field, and organizational levels is analyzed. Furthermore, this paper provides a longitudinal investigation of an under-researched empirical setting, the Paralympic movement. Finally, this study integrates insights from the disability studies’ research field, which significantly deepens this analysis.

This conceptual paper identifies gaps and contributes to the literature on ‘identity’ dilemmas faced by multinational enterprises operating in a globalised world. Various characteristics and business strategies of multinational enterprises are delineated and analysed through the lens of social identity theory and international business concepts such as market and institutional logic. Our analysis, based on multiple cases, and derived from a variety of industries and countries, associates the identity dilemma to informed business strategy. Our findings suggest that while multinational enterprises face identity dilemmas that they sometimes use to their advantage, it also poses several challenges. Through our conceptualisation, we derive five distinct propositions to shape future research directions.

PurposeAlthough Mitchellet al.(1997) recognize salience attributes as variables, the salience framework based on a dichotomous representation of salience attributes does not explain why, in some instances, a latent stakeholder is assigned more salience than a definitive stakeholder. This paper explains this riddle by bringing the debate to the organizational population level and suggests a new perspective for understanding the process of stakeholder identification and prioritization.Design/methodology/approachThe authors compare two organizational populations, i.e. “for-profit and not-for-profit” which are distinguishable from one another based on the dominant institutional logic that each endorses. The authors, therefore, mobilize the institutional theory and bring the debate of the stakeholder salience to the organizational population level.FindingsThe authors propose that members of an organizational population endorsing similar institutional logic develop salience attributes of similar potential values, which are radically different from those of the members of other organizational populations; these potential values act as precursors that determine the perceived values of salience attributes for a manager; and dominant and recessive salience attributes work, at the organizational population level, to determine stakeholder prioritization.Originality/valueThe original model of Mitchellet al.(1997) has been cited more than 9,000 times, but the process of stakeholder evaluation remains a black box (Bundyet al., 2013; Tashman and Raelin, 2013). This paper contributes to the debate and suggests a change in the level of analysis (to the organizational population) and a focus on the institutional logic perspective.

This commentary on the recent think piece by Mannion and Exworthy reviews their core arguments, highlighting their suggestion that recent forces for personalization have emerged which may counterbalance the strong standardization wave which has been evident in many healthcare settings and systems over the last two decades. These forces for personalization can take very different forms. The commentary explores the authors’ suggestion that these themes can be fruitfully examined theoretically through an institutional logics (ILs) literature, which has recently been applied by some scholars to healthcare settings. This commentary outlines key premises of that theoretical tradition. Finally, the commentary makes suggestions for taking this IL influenced research agenda further, along with some issues to be addressed.

We examine how and under what conditions informal institutional constraints, such as precedent and doctrine, are likely to affect collective choice within international organisations even in the absence of powerful bureaucratic agents. With a particular focus on the United Nations Security Council, we first develop a theoretical account of why such informal constraints might affect collective decisions even of powerful and strategically behaving actors. We show that precedents provide focal points that allow adopting collective decisions in coordination situations despite diverging preferences. Reliance on previous cases creates tacitly evolving doctrine that may develop incrementally. Council decision-making is also likely to be facilitated by an institutional logic of escalation driven by institutional constraints following from the typically staged response to crisis situations. We explore the usefulness of our theoretical argument with evidence from the Council doctrine on terrorism that has evolved since 1985. The key decisions studied include the 1992 sanctions resolution against Libya and the 2001 Council response to the 9/11 attacks. We conclude that, even within intergovernmentally structured international organisations, member states do not operate on a clean slate, but in a highly institutionalised environment that shapes their opportunities for action.

Por meio da perspectiva da estratégia como prática busca-se compreender o processo de sensegiving na elaboração de sentido da estratégia em pequenas empresas, caracterizadas como organizações híbridas, compreendidas a partir de negócios sociais. Parte-se da ideia de que as tensões inerentes a esses tipos de organizações exigem esforços de sensegiving em suas narrativas para que sua estratégia seja compartilhada. A fim de compreender o sensegiving no processo de elaboração de sentido da estratégia em organizações híbridas, este trabalho adota a perspectiva da estratégia como prática e constrói seu argumento em duas partes. Apresenta-se a estratégia como prática e o strategizing, focando no processo de sensegiving, e as narrativas organizacionais. Posteriormente traz-se a lógica institucional, que dá suporte para compreender as organizações híbridas. Nesse contexto, optou-se por análise e coleta de evidências empíricas por meio de entrevistas narrativas e documentos secundários. O campo de pesquisa escolhido foi o de negócio social, por ser considerado um tipo ideal de organização híbrida. Foram estudadas duas organizações de pequeno porte, aqui nominadas como Alfa e Beta. Evidenciou-se que a complexidade organizacional dos negócios sociais se dá pela tensão entre duas lógicas que parecem contrastantes, mas que permitem a uma organização operar de modo a conquistar sua sustentabilidade, uma vez que no caso dos negócios sociais as lógicas de mercado dão sustentação para que seja possível alcançar o benefício social. No entanto, dada essa dualidade e contraste aparente essas organizações precisam reforçar seu esforço de sensegiving para suas narrativas com a finalidade de auxiliar na compreensão de seus públicos para o entendimento de sua estratégia., Through the perspective of strategy as a practice, it is important to understand the process of sensegiving in the elaboration of the sense of strategy in small companies, characterized as hybrid organizations, understood from social business. It starts from the idea that the tensions inherent in these types of organizations require a sensegiving efforts in their narratives in order for their strategy to be shared. In order to understand sensegiving in the process of making sense of strategy in hybrid organizations, this paper takes the perspective of strategy as practice and constructs its argument into two parts. It presents strategy as practice and strategizing, focusing on the process of sensegiving and in the organizational narratives. Later, it brings the institutional logic, which gives support to understand the hybrid organizations. In this context, it has opted for analyzing and collecting empirical evidence through narrative interviews and secondary documents. The chosen field of research was the social business because it was considered an ideal type of hybrid organization. Two small organizations have been studied. They are here nominated as Alfa and Beta. It has been shown that the organizational complexity of social business is due to the tension between two logics that seem to be contrasting, but that allow an organization to operate in order to achieve its sustainability, since in the case of social businesses the market logic gives support to that, it is possible to achieve social benefit. However, given this apparent duality and contrast, these organizations need to reinforce their sensegiving effort for their narratives in order to assist their audience in understanding their strategies.

We investigate how established professionals manage their identities in the face of identity threats from a contested shift in the professional logic that characterizes their field. To do so, we draw on interviews with 113 physicians from five European transition countries who faced pressure for change in their professional identities due to a shift in the logic of healthcare from a logic of “narrow specialism” in primary care that characterized the Soviet health system to a new logic of “generalism” that characterizes primary care in the West. We found three important forms of professional identity threats experienced by physicians during this period – professional values conflict, status loss, and social identity conflict. In addition, we identified three forms of identity work – authenticating, reframing, and cultural repositioning – that the professionals who successfully transitioned to the new identity performed in order to reconstruct their professional identities so that they were aligned with the new logic. Based on these findings, we present a model of how established professionals change their professional identities as a result of a contested shift in the professional logic of their field and discuss the underlying mechanisms through which this occurs.

We employed a Glaserian grounded theory approach to explore the gap between behavioural safety and its unsatisfactory outcomes. Data were collected through ethnographic studies on the practice of managing heat stress on thirty-six construction sites in Hong Kong and Chonqing in mainland China. Two core concepts, institutions and institutional logics, are generated and defined to explain why safety rules do not necessarily produce safety behaviours. At society level, we explicated two pairs of institutional logics: the religion logics (Confucianism vs. pragmatism) and the market logics (rational market vs. individualism). At project organizational level, two logics of processing safety in production are explicated: a protection logic in the Chongqing context and a production logic in the Hong Kong context. The concepts and sub-concepts are compared to existing business literature for clarification of scopes. Empirical findings of the study suggest safety intervention needs to redirect its focus from promoting safety alone to addressing the institutional logics of the entire organization and its societal context practised by multiple levels of actors. We conclude that safety research would benefit from redirecting its focus of analysis from discourses, interviews or surveys to authenticated cases reconstructed through triangulation of actors’ discourses at multiple levels of an organization, third-party observation, physiological data and objective measurement of the work environment. Methodologically, this paper provides a detailed guidance for conducting grounded theory research with a focus of conceptualization.

We critically assess how the devolution of researcher care moderates knowledge development in organization studies. Defining researcher care as what scholars are concerned and passionate about, we ...

Bu çalışma, Türk elektrik enerjisi sektöründe 2001 sonrası alanda gelişen çoklu kurumsal mantıkların yönetiminde ne tür mekanizmaların kullanıldığını ortaya koyabilmek için yapılmıştır. Bu çalışmada Türkiye elektrik enerjisi sektöründe geliştiği görülen çevreci, kamu ve piyasacı kurumsal mantıkların hangi mekanizmalarla yönetildiği gösterilmiştir. Nitel araştırma yöntemlerinin kullanıldığı bu çalışmada Çukurova Bölgesinde yerleşik 2 firmadan toplanan verilerle araştırma sorusuna yanıt aranmıştır. Bu doğrultuda veriler toplanırken yüz yüze görüşmeler ve doküman incelemeleri yapılmıştır. Verilerin analiz edilmesiyle çoklu kurumsal manntıkların etkisi altındaki örgütlerin aşılama (grafting) (Purdy & Gray, 2009), melezleşme (hybridization) (Battilana & Lee, 2014), ve köprüleme (bridging) (Smets et al., 2015) mekanizmalarının kullanıldığı tespit edilmiştir. Özetle, belirli bir alanda kurumsal çoğulculuğa maruz kalan örgütlerin, bu karmaşayı yönetebilmek için farklı seviyelerde farklı mekanizmaları kullanabildikleri gösterilmiştir. This study was carried out to reveal what kinds of mechanisms are used in the management of multiple institutional logics which have developed in the field after 2001 in Turkey electrical energy sector. In this study, especially, it was shown that how the environmental, public and market institutional logics are managed. In this study, where qualitative research methods were used, an answer to the research question was sought with the data collected from 2 companies in the Cukurova Region. Accordingly, face-to-face interviews and document examinations were conducted while collecting data. By analyzing the data, it has been determined that the organizations under the influence of multiple institutional logics use grafting (Purdy & Gray, 2009), hybridization (Battilana & Lee, 2014), and bridging (Smets et al., 2015) mechanisms. 82

This chapter revisits Friedmann (1966) as the significant contributor for connecting planning and innovation. Through the study of two municipalities, this chapter contributes to our understanding of innovative planning. Supported by the institutional logics perspective, this chapter seeks to explain variations in how municipalities translate the idea of innovation into the institutional planning system. We examined two municipalities with a common goal of innovation that chose different paths regarding allocative and innovative planning. The paths to an innovative planning process were developed through the value of co-creation. Managers at different levels developed their own understanding and translated it to their respective contexts. Their interpretation created the foundation for a replaced institutional logic with new practices, frames, and narratives referred to as transformative change.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explain how and why HR practitioners perceive the need to develop international HRM practices to support short-term assignments, international business travel and virtual assignments for internationally operating organizations.Design/methodology/approachThe authors interviewed 29 HR practitioners from multinationals located in the Netherlands.FindingsAlternative international assignments seem not to belong to the traditional expatriate jobs, nor to regular domestic jobs and show a liminal character. However, over the last few years we have gradually seen a more mature classification of the Short-term Assignment, International Business Traveler and Virtual Assignment categories and more active use of these categories in policymaking by organizations; this reflects a transition of these three categories from a liminal position to a more institutionalized position.Research limitations/implicationsFor this research, only international HRM practitioners were interviewed. Future studies should include a broader group of stakeholders.Practical implicationsInternational HRM departments should take a more proactive role regarding alternative forms of international assignees. Furthermore, HR professionals may develop training and coaching and consider rewards and benefits that could provide allowances for specific working conditions that are part of international work.Originality/valueThis study is among the first to relate the framework of institutional logic and liminality to explain the why of HR support for alternative international assignees.

Traditional institutional logic restricted knowledge spread across organizational boundaries and affects the performance of innovation. This paper, using the beneficial aspects of institutional complexity, Proposes an ecosystem hypothesis to explore how design better promote innovation. At first part, through the cases study and synthesis of more than 100 projects, Proposes an “ecosystem” hypothesis as the theme connecting its common characteristics. The second part, through the literature research, examined its alternative structure of ecosystem, such as business model, platform, value network, knowledge alliance, etc., and proposed ecosystem analytical framework. The third part, Makes a comparative analysis of two cases, summarizes two different types of ecosystem, and deeply explores the mechanism of transformation.

This paper reflects on alternatives to the traditional form of doctoral thesis which are emerging to reflect a new approach to the valuation and designation of scientific outputs. We examine the changes and consider some implications. We suggest that the adoption of co-citation as underpinning principle for the measurement of knowledge structures has led to re-designation of the value of knowledge and knowledge producers in increasingly quantitative terms. We use notions of ‘institution’ and ‘logic’ to better understand such a change and its implications. Under a new logic that is gradually embedding itself across the higher education sector, the ‘constitutive rules’ concerned with the value of research now prioritize quantification, and tangibility of output, and quality is increasingly equated with citation. Whilst the scientific disciplines have traditionally been closer to this model, albeit with significant national variations, subjects within the Social Sciences and Humanities are now being affected. We present evidence from a small study of the UK higher education sector of university regulation of doctoral degree submission format in two disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences (History and Sociology). Our evidence shows the recent and gradual adoption of a practice, previously more common in scientific disciplines, that allows the doctoral thesis to be constituted by a series of publishable papers, known by a variety of names, the most common being ‘Thesis by Published Papers’, ‘Journal Format Thesis’, ‘Alternative Format Thesis’, and ‘Integrated Thesis’. As the thesis of the Social Sciences and Humanities – itself an important institution in the academic field - begins to reflect a greater emphasis upon quantity of knowledge outputs, a tension emerges with the most central of all scientific institutions, the peer-reviewed journal paper.