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Institutional Logics in Action: 39, Part A
Author(s): Eva Boxenbaum (Editor), Michael Lounsbury
- Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Publication Date: 9 July 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 327 pages
- ISBN-10: 1781909180
- ISBN-13: 9781781909188
Book Description
The Institutional Logics Perspective is one of the fastest growing new theoretical areas in organization studies (Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury, 2012). Building on early efforts by Friedland & Alford (1991) to “bring society back in” to the study of organizational dynamics, this new scholarly domain has revived institutional analysis by embracing a focus on the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of institutions. In doing so, it has embraced a more practice-centered approach to agency that emphasizes situated interactions, the importance of history, the role of both symbolic and material elements, and the study of cross-level processes and mechanisms. This two volume set, seeded by an ABC Network conference held in Banff, Alberta, CANADA in June 2012, provides a fresh set of papers by scholars at the cutting edge of research on institutional logics. As a whole, the papers provide many novel theoretical insights about institutional logics in action – focusing on their dynamics, complexity, and evolving relationship to actors as actors actively navigate their social worlds.
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Boxenbaum E. – Mines ParisTech, France and Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Lounsbury M. – University of Alberta, Canada
