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The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process
How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines have offered a range of theories and perspectives to provide answers to this question. Within organization studies in recent years, several scholars have developed the institutional logics perspective. An institutional logic is the set of material practices and symbolic systems including
assumptions, values, and beliefs by which individuals and organizations provide meaning to their daily activity, organize time and space, and reproduce their lives and experiences. This approach affords significant insights, methodologies, and research tools, to analyze the multiple combinations of factors
that may determine cognition, behaviour, and rationalities.
In tracing the development of the institutional logics perspective from earlier institutional theory, the book analyzes seminal research, illustrating how and why influential works on institutional theory motivated a distinct new approach to scholarship on institutional logics. The book shows how the institutional logics perspective transforms institutional theory. It presents novel theory, further elaborates the institutional logics perspective, and forges new linkages to key literatures on
practice, identity, and social and cognitive psychology. It develops the microfoundations of institutional logics and institutional entrepreneurship, proposing a set of mechanisms that go beyond meta-theory, integrating this work with macro theory on institutional logics into a cross-levels model of
cultural heterogeneity.
By incorporating current psychological understanding of human behaviour and linking it to sociological perspectives, it aims to provide an encompassing framework for institutional analysis, and to be an essential and accessible reference for scholars and advanced students of organizational behaviour, organization and management theory, business strategy, and cultural sociology.
assumptions, values, and beliefs by which individuals and organizations provide meaning to their daily activity, organize time and space, and reproduce their lives and experiences. This approach affords significant insights, methodologies, and research tools, to analyze the multiple combinations of factors
that may determine cognition, behaviour, and rationalities.
In tracing the development of the institutional logics perspective from earlier institutional theory, the book analyzes seminal research, illustrating how and why influential works on institutional theory motivated a distinct new approach to scholarship on institutional logics. The book shows how the institutional logics perspective transforms institutional theory. It presents novel theory, further elaborates the institutional logics perspective, and forges new linkages to key literatures on
practice, identity, and social and cognitive psychology. It develops the microfoundations of institutional logics and institutional entrepreneurship, proposing a set of mechanisms that go beyond meta-theory, integrating this work with macro theory on institutional logics into a cross-levels model of
cultural heterogeneity.
By incorporating current psychological understanding of human behaviour and linking it to sociological perspectives, it aims to provide an encompassing framework for institutional analysis, and to be an essential and accessible reference for scholars and advanced students of organizational behaviour, organization and management theory, business strategy, and cultural sociology.
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First published April 7, 2012
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June 15, 2018
This is book provides an overview and synthesis of institutional logics, a multifarious research program largely centered within organization theory and sociology. One particular strength of the book is its extensive but focused review of key literature in the field.
The authors aim to make an original contribution by expanding the the inter-institutional system to include an community order of institutional logics. They also aim to link the symbolic or cultural dimensions of institutional logics to material practices through a two process models. The authors hope that this will contribute to addressing the problem of structure and agency.
Despite the efforts, the agent here conceptualized is merely a more sophisticated version of Granovetter's institutional dupe who is shaped by macro-level institutions and situational cues, acting - so it seems - almost as a very complex automaton. More attention to the logical structure agency itself could improve and complement this account offered here. Despite this limitation, the book is extremely informative and provides a platform for future research.
The authors aim to make an original contribution by expanding the the inter-institutional system to include an community order of institutional logics. They also aim to link the symbolic or cultural dimensions of institutional logics to material practices through a two process models. The authors hope that this will contribute to addressing the problem of structure and agency.
Despite the efforts, the agent here conceptualized is merely a more sophisticated version of Granovetter's institutional dupe who is shaped by macro-level institutions and situational cues, acting - so it seems - almost as a very complex automaton. More attention to the logical structure agency itself could improve and complement this account offered here. Despite this limitation, the book is extremely informative and provides a platform for future research.
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