The Recomposition of an Organizational Field: Health Care in Alberta

Reay, Trish; Hinings, C. R.

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“…What is significant is that despite the adoption of the commercial logic for the elite soccer, Alliance Club KIL maintained the original logic and values associated with participant sport, volunteerism, and community orientation. This is similar to the finding of Reay and Hinings (2005) of their study of the health care system in a province in Canada that even though the '"business planning model" emphasizing efficiency and effectiveness, and the "medical professional model" centered on the physicians' expertise continued to exist in the system and had considerable sway in matters affecting the system. In a similar manner, even though the commercial logic displaced the volunteer logic for elite soccer in KIL, the volunteer logic continued to exist and influence key decisions in KIL.…”

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“…This research is expected to contribute to the sparse literature on the practical and theoretical implications of operating in pluralistic institutional environments (Kraatz & Block, 2008). Reay and Hinings's (2005) study of health care services in Alberta, Canada, showed radical changes involving competing institutional logics within an organizational field. Yet, while the structure of the field and the dominant logic changed, the earlier dominant logic of the medical profession was not entirely removed by the business-like health care.…”

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For ‘Love’ and Money: A Sports Club’s Innovative Response to Multiple Logics

Skirstad

Chelladurai

2011

Journal of Sport Management

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This article builds on prior theory and research on institutional logics and shows how a multisports club changes during its organizational life from an all amateur or voluntary logic to embody multiple logics simultaneously with different subunits being aligned with different organizational fields. The emergence of the professional logic for elite soccer in the presence of a volunteer logic caused a change in the structure of the club whereby all the units in the club became economically and legally autonomous. Soccer was divisionalized into soccer for everybody and soccer for the elite. The creation of a shareholding company and the use of an investment company which introduced the commercial logic were the next steps. This paper extends the literature by suggesting that different and opposing institutional logics such as the amateur, the professional, and commercial logics can coexist within a multisports club or, to put it another way, that the multisports club may belong to several organizational fields.

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For ‘Love’ and Money: A Sports Club’s Innovative Response to Multiple Logics

Skirstad

Chelladurai

2011

Journal of Sport Management

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“…In other instances, interdiscursivity (Phillips et al 2004) enables institutional entrepreneurs to appropriate legitimacy and meaning from other discourses. These borrowed institutional logics and practices from other, occasionally vastly dissimilar, fields can be very powerful, for example when market logics are applied to settings where they had previously been absent (Oakes, Townley and Cooper 1998;Reay andHinings 2005, Colyvas, 2007). Regardless of whether institutional entrepreneurs borrow and leverage dominant discourses well established within the field, or discourses ostensibly unrelated to the practice they are trying to diffuse (Rao 1998), comparison and analogy are prevalent mechanisms in discursive strategies used by institutional entrepreneurs.…”

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“…Reay and Hinings 2005;Townley 2002) existing logicsis relatively well-studied. However, the role of analogy in shaping institutional design has not been explored in depth.…”

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The Role of Analogy in the Institutionalization of Sustainability Reporting

Etzion

Ferraro

2010

Organization Science

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We study institutional entrepreneurship in an emergent field by analyzing the case of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and its efforts to purposefully institutionalize the practice of sustainability reporting. We suggest that analogies affect institutionalization processes through two mechanisms. In early stages of institutionalization, analogy operates primarily as a normative mechanism and adoption is driven mainly by an instrumental logic. This emphasis on similarity to existing institutions stresses conformity and promotes legitimacy. Yet, analogies can also have a cognitive effect on institutional design, especially once initial acceptance from the environment has been secured, by directing attention towards incongruences between the emergent institution and its analogical source. Institutional entrepreneurship can spur innovation and departure from existing institutions by highlighting limitations of the analogical source and providing a compelling value-rational argument underscoring the worth of the new institution. This theoretical contribution helps explain how analogies to existing institutional practices can both provide legitimacy to novel institutions and constitute the basis for a creative process of institutional design.3 Institutional entrepreneurship is a delicate balancing act between two conflicting tasks. On the one hand institutional entrepreneurs must disguise the radical nature of their enterprise in order to engage supporters and evade the wrath of incumbents, while on the other they cannot adhere too closely to existing practices, for by doing so, they will not be able to further any meaningful change (Aldrich and Fiol 1994). Institutional entrepreneurs need to become skilled cultural operatives, fashioning stories in order to attract resources. In this work it is essential to "balance the need for legitimacy by abiding by societal norms about what is appropriate with efforts to create unique identities that may differentiate and is relatively well-studied. However, the role of analogy in shaping institutional design has not been explored in depth. Tropes like simile, analogy and metaphor can help gather political support and legitimacy, but they also lead to analytical closure (Oswick, Keenoy and Grant 2002). Remaining within the confines of a clearly defined analogy cannot lead to evolution to profoundly different institutions (Hoffman and Ventresca 1999). Furthermore, the analogy cannot be discarded at later stages (Ocasio and Joseph 2005) when deeper institutional change is being advocated, as cognitive lock-in has already limited external constituents' receptivity to alternative scenarios. How, then, do analogies shape the construction and evolution of proto-institutions? 4In this article we address the role of analogies in institutional change by presenting a longitudinal case-study of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and its strategies to promote and institutionalize sustainability reporting practices. GRI, a non-profit organization headquartered in Amsterdam, ...

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“…While this exercise helps to locate and bound different organisations, an organisational field is not necessarily a stable or persistent environment (Reay and Hinings, 2005). The field of healthcare over the past 50 years has undergone significant changes, both in terms of the material-resource environment and in the beliefs, rules and logics that legitimate practice.…”

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Conflicting Institutional Logics: A National Programme for IT in the Organisational Field of Healthcare

Currie

Guah

2007

Journal of Information Technology

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This paper reports the findings from a 4-year study on the UK National Health Service on the introduction of a national programme for information technology. 1 This is the largest civil IT programme worldwide at an estimated technical cost of d6.2 billion over a 10-year period. An institutional analysis of our historical and empirical data from six NHS organisations identifies growing fragmentation in the organisational field of healthcare, as past and present institutional logics both fuel and inhibit changes in the governance systems and working practices of healthcare practitioners. This is further complicated by new institutional logics that place the citizen at centre stage of the NPfIT, in a move to promote patient choice and public value.

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The Recomposition of an Organizational Field: Health Care in Alberta

Cited by 509 publications

References 32 publications

For ‘Love’ and Money: A Sports Club’s Innovative Response to Multiple Logics

For ‘Love’ and Money: A Sports Club’s Innovative Response to Multiple Logics

The Role of Analogy in the Institutionalization of Sustainability Reporting

Conflicting Institutional Logics: A National Programme for IT in the Organisational Field of Healthcare

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