TY - JOUR
T1 - New Directions in the Study of Institutional Logics
T2 - From Tools to Phenomena
AU - Lounsbury, Michael
AU - Steele, Christopher W.J.
AU - Wang, Milo Shaoqing
AU - Toubiana, Madeline
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In this article, we take stock of the institutional logics perspective and highlight opportunities for new scholarship. While we celebrate the growth and generativity of the literature on institutional logics, we also note that there has been a troubling tendency in recent work to use logics as analytical tools, feeding disquiet about reification and reductionism. Seeding a broader scholarly agenda that addresses such weaknesses in the literature, we highlight nascent efforts that aim to more systematically understand institutional logics as complex, dynamic phenomena in their own right. In doing so, we argue for more research that probes how logics cohere and endure by unpacking the role of values, the centrality of practice, and the governance dynamics of institutional logics and their orders. Furthermore, we encourage bridging the study of institutional logics with various literatures, including ethnomethodology, phenomenology, professions, elites, world society, and the old institutionalism, to enhance progress in these directions.
AB - In this article, we take stock of the institutional logics perspective and highlight opportunities for new scholarship. While we celebrate the growth and generativity of the literature on institutional logics, we also note that there has been a troubling tendency in recent work to use logics as analytical tools, feeding disquiet about reification and reductionism. Seeding a broader scholarly agenda that addresses such weaknesses in the literature, we highlight nascent efforts that aim to more systematically understand institutional logics as complex, dynamic phenomena in their own right. In doing so, we argue for more research that probes how logics cohere and endure by unpacking the role of values, the centrality of practice, and the governance dynamics of institutional logics and their orders. Furthermore, we encourage bridging the study of institutional logics with various literatures, including ethnomethodology, phenomenology, professions, elites, world society, and the old institutionalism, to enhance progress in these directions.
KW - culture
KW - governance
KW - institution
KW - institutional logics
KW - institutional theory
KW - practice
KW - value
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev-soc-090320-111734
DO - 10.1146/annurev-soc-090320-111734
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85111783560
SN - 0360-0572
VL - 47
SP - 261
EP - 280
JO - Annual Review of Sociology
JF - Annual Review of Sociology
ER -