The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process
Patricia H. Thornton
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Description for The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process
Paperback. The book analyzes, synthesizes, and further develops theoretical and methodological tools in the rising new school in institutional analysis, the institutional logics perspective, which offers opportunities to examine how individual and organizational actors are a product of multiple social locations in an inter-institutional system. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199601943
SKU
V9780199601943
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About Patricia H. Thornton
Patricia Thornton is Adjunct Professor affiliated with the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Duke University Fuqua School of Business and affiliated faculty to the Program on Organizations, Business, and the Economy, Department of Sociology, Stanford University. Her research focuses on institutional and organizational change, innovation and entrepreneurship, and institutional logics and strategic management. Her book, Markets from Culture: Institutional ... Read more
Reviews for The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process
In The Institutional Logics Perspective, Thornton, Ocasio, and Lounsbury have crafted a foundational treatise that will be a touchstone for future inquiry on logics. As an explanation for how actors, actions, and context come together in organizational and institutional settings, the institutional logics perspective has found a broad and diverse audience; this book will only widen its appeal. The authors ... Read more