ISBN:
9780199601936
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (249 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Institutional Logics Perspective : A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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, an
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Micro and Macro-Individual and Societal LevelsMeso 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Proliferation: Institutional LogicsVariant: 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cultural Content: Cells of the X, Y AxesCultural 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Top-Down Effects of Institutional Logics and Organizational PracticesBottom-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
Description / Table of Contents:
Individual-Societal-Level Effects on Institutional Change
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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