Public service innovation and multiple institutional logics: The case of hybrid social enterprise providers of health and wellbeing

Vickers, Ian; Lyon, Fergus; Sepúlveda, Leandro; McMullin, Caitlin

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2017.08.003

Cited by 148 publications

(146 citation statements)

References 47 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

131

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The second logic that was found to be clearly influential to all of the case study organisations was the community logic, defined by Thornton et al (2012, p. 52 (Vickers et al, 2017) and a 'social welfare logic' (Pache and Santos, 2013). The concept of community -community engagement, community development, community organising -formed a significant part of the narratives of third sector professionals and volunteers in Sheffield, and the logic was identified as playing a key role in defining co-production narratives and practices there.…”

Section: Community Logicmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…However, as Friedland and Alford claim, "Capitalist firms cannot exchange unpriced human activities that may be rational for an organization or useful to individuals" (Friedland and Alford, 1991, p. 249). In relation to public services, the market logic is associated with the strategies of NPM, such as contracting out services, performance management and evaluation, and a view of service users as 'customers' (Vickers et al, 2017). In many studies of institutional logics, particularly in the case of 'hybrid' organisations, it is therefore this market or commercial logic that most commonly comes into conflict with another competing logic -such as a therapeutic (Spitzmueller, 2016), social welfare (Pache and Santos, 2013), family and regional state (Greenwood et al, 2010) or editorial logic (Thornton, 2002).…”

Section: Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rules of the professions are established by professional associations and practices are transmitted through informal codes of behaviour. For example, legitimacy of medical professionals stems from their exclusive level of expertise, and the narrative of promoting the 'NHS ethos' (Vickers et al, 2017). Similarly, in Thornton's studies, the professional logic within publishing was demonstrated through personal reputations of editors, relational networks between editors and authors and professional reputation gained through the publication of successful books.…”

Section: Professionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, Vickers et al (2017) employ an institutional logics analytical framework in order to explain social innovation within social enterprises, characterised as hybrids of the state, community and market logics. They demonstrate that co-production with service users was one type of innovation identified in these organisations, which was facilitated by the co-existence of state, market and civil society logics.…”

Section: Institutional Logics and Co-productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This translates into taking a more business-like approach to financing organisational activities (such as through renting out office spaces and delivering training) as opposed to relying solely on government grants, as well as adopting more 'corporate speak' in narratives to satisfy funders. For Sheffield Parents and Sheffield Older People, which are relatively new projects -and, crucially, funded by grants from the same nonprofit funding body -this assimilation does not take the form of adapting or changing in the face of a new 'challenger' logic (Reay and Hinings, 2009;Vickers et al, 2017) over time, but rather, elements of the market logic define both rules (through the requirements set out in contracts) and narratives (in discussing how various targets will be evidenced) from the outset.…”

Section: Logic Assimilationmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 4 more Smart Citations

Co-production and the third sector: A comparative study of England and France

McMullin¹

2018

Preprint

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This thesis explores co-production between citizens and third sector professionals in England and France. I focus on five community regeneration organisations in Sheffield, England, and five in Lyon, France, followed by an analysis of comparator organisations in two further sectors of activity -parents' organisations, and projects to reduce older people's loneliness. The research is based on 57 semi-structured interviews, as well as event observations and documentary analysis. I employ an analytical framework of institutional logics to explore the ways in which the rules, practices and narratives of the case study organisations are specific to their city and national contexts and how these in turn drive and shape co-production practices.The study finds that while the Sheffield organisations are characterised by an assimilation of the state, community and market logics, the Lyon organisations demonstrate a blend of a 'Napoleonic state' logic, and a 'local solidarity' (rather than community) logic. These different combinations of logics illuminate two approaches to co-production. In France, co-production is informed by notions of citizenship, solidarity and participative democracy, leading to a greater focus on citizen involvement in organisational governance and greater influence of rules as an enabler and constraint to co-production. In Sheffield, co-production is seen as a way to improve communities, services and outcomes, and we therefore see more pragmatic attention to co-design and co-delivery activities. This thesis provides an important contribution both to co-production theory as well as to policy and practice, by demonstrating some of the cultural and contextual subjectivity of coproduction, which has been overlooked in previous studies. In addition, employing institutional theory to study co-production enables me to produce evidence of meso and macro level factors that influence co-production behaviour.ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

show abstract

Section: Community Logicmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Professionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Institutional Logics and Co-productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Logic Assimilationmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

Co-production and the third sector: A comparative study of England and France

McMullin¹

2018

Preprint

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Financing social enterprises and the demand for social investment

Lyon

Owen

2019

Strategic Change

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Social investors are supplying increasing amounts of finance to enterprises combining social and commercial objectives although these social enterprises are still more likely to seek bank finance, suggesting that social investors should focus on market gaps which are more likely to occur for smaller, younger social enterprises that lack track record and collateral. Social enterprises offer innovative ways of combining social and commercial objectives and are only slightly less likely to seek repayable finance than other small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with younger social enterprises being more growth oriented and also more discouraged from borrowing. Where social enterprise borrowing takes place, it is almost three times more likely to be from commercial banks, rather than specialist social investment lenders that are more likely to invest without requiring collateral. Social investment lenders should therefore focus their offer on finance gaps left by banks, notably in earlier stage social enterprise development, rather than compete for existing commercial bank market share.

show abstract

Determinants of social enterprise performance: The role of passion, competence, and organizational legitimacy

Cai

Song

2023

Nonprofit Mgmnt & Ldrshp

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Social enterprises have been widely recognized as tools to solve societal problems. As the soul of social enterprises, social entrepreneurs help social enterprises overcome resource constraints and achieve survival and development. However, existing studies have focused limited attention on the effects of social entrepreneur characteristics on social enterprise performance. Drawing on the institutional logics perspective, this paper constructs a theoretical model of social entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial competence affecting social enterprise performance through organizational legitimacy and examines the moderating effect of regulatory uncertainty. Data were collected from 198 social enterprises in China. The results indicate that organizational legitimacy mediates the relationships between social entrepreneurial passion, entrepreneurial competence, and social enterprise performance. Regulatory uncertainty positively moderates the relationship between organizational legitimacy and social enterprise economic performance. The findings of this study contribute to research on social enterprise performance and organizational legitimacy. This paper also offers practical suggestions that social entrepreneurs should exert their passion and competence, obtain organizational legitimacy, and analyze the institutional environments to promote the development of the enterprise.

show abstract

Public service innovation and multiple institutional logics: The case of hybrid social enterprise providers of health and wellbeing

Cited by 148 publications

References 47 publications

Co-production and the third sector: A comparative study of England and France

Co-production and the third sector: A comparative study of England and France

Financing social enterprises and the demand for social investment

Determinants of social enterprise performance: The role of passion, competence, and organizational legitimacy

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About