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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.
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The lnstitutional Logics Perspective A New Approach to Culture, Structure, and Process Patricia H. Thornton William Ocasio Michael Lounsbury OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS The lnstitutional Logics Perspective A New Approach to Culture, Structure, and Process Patricia H. Thornton William Ocasio Michael Lounsbury OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OX.FORD Preface UNIVERSITY PRESS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP United Kingdom Oxford Univer�ity �e�s is � d �partment of the University of Oxford. It furthers the Umver�1� s obJectíve. of excellence in research, scholarship, . and educanon b� pub}ishing �orldWlde. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford Uruvers1ty Press m the UK and in certain other countries © Patricia H. Thornton, William Ocasio, and Michael Lounsbury 2012 The moral rights of the author have been asserted First published 2012 Reprinted 2012 Ali ri J?hts reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in � retrtev� syste.m, o� t;ranslnitted, in any form or by any means, without the � p or pernuss �on m wnting of Oxford Univer�ity Press, or as expressly perlnitted . Y law, by !ice�ce or un�:r terms a�eed Wlth the appropriate reprographics cr nghts or,amzanon. Enqumes concernmg reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not cir?Jlate thi� book in any other binding or cover And you must rmpose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN 978-o-1g-g60194-3 Printed in the United Kingdom by the MPG Books Group Ltd<