Toward a Structural Model of Organizational-Level Institutional Pluralism and Logic Interconnectedness

Jancsary, Dennis; Meyer, Renate E.; Höllerer, Markus A.; Barberio, Vitaliano

doi:10.1287/orsc.2017.1160

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“…For instance, art organizations like museums or orchestras may deploy hybrid spaces where art and commerce come together and where artists engage with external stakeholders to develop market-oriented propositions (Glynn and Lounsbury 2005, Durand and Jourdan 2012, Shymko and Roulet 2017. Another example is commercially oriented units of public sector organizations where civil servants work to provide services to external or internal customers at market rates (Jancsary et al 2017). Firms' outreach to local communities (Lee and Lounsbury 2015) also can be organized by building specialized units where company officials have to integrate community considerations into their commercial practices.…”

Section: Empirical Research Is Scarcementioning

confidence: 99%

Protecting Scientists from Gordon Gekko: How Organizations Use Hybrid Spaces to Engage with Multiple Institutional Logics

Perkmann

McKelvey

Phillips

2019

Organization Science

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Previous work on institutional complexity has discussed two solutions that organizations internally deploy when externally engaging with multiple institutional logics: blended hybrids, in which logics are combined throughout the organization, and structural hybrids, in which different logics dominate in different compartments within the organization. While blended hybrids have been extensively investigated, few studies have examined how structural hybrids are constructed and maintained. We address this imbalance by studying university-industry research centers as instances of distinct organizational spaces used to engage with a minority logic. We found that these spaces require three kinds of work: (a) leveraging, where dominant logic practices are drawn on to achieve minority logic objectives; (b) hybridizing, where the practices inside the space are modified to allow engagement with the minority logic; and (c) bolstering, where the space is shielded against excessive minority logic influence and anchored back into the organization. Furthermore, contrary to the existing literature, we found that the spaces were hybrid, rather than being dominated by a single logic. Our finding is likely generalizable across many instances of structural hybrids given the integration problems that organizations with pure single logic spaces would face, combined with the usefulness of hybrid spaces. Our study is novel in revealing the work needed to sustain hybrid spaces and questioning the previously held conceptualization of structural hybrids as made up of single-logic compartments.

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Section: Empirical Research Is Scarcementioning

confidence: 99%

Protecting Scientists from Gordon Gekko: How Organizations Use Hybrid Spaces to Engage with Multiple Institutional Logics

Perkmann

McKelvey

Phillips

2019

Organization Science

105

111

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“…It allows us to interpret the meaning of a single feature by taking its direct neighboring features into account. This relational analysis of meaning structures transfers an interpretative analysis of institutionalized roles (Jancsary et al 2017;Meyer and Höllerer 2010;Mohr 1994) to the analysis of organizational forms and categories. Furthermore, the relational analysis enables teasing out differences between core features and peripheral features.…”

Section: Interpretative Analysis Of Categories In Organizational Fieldsmentioning

confidence: 96%

The Presentation of Self as Good and Right: How Value Propositions and Business Model Features are Linked in the Sharing Economy

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The sharing economy as an emerging field is characterized by unsettled debates about its shared purpose and defining characteristics of the organizations within this field. This study draws on neo-institutional theory to explore how sharing organizations position themselves vis-à-vis such debates with regard to (1) the values these organizations publicly promote to present themselves as "good" sharing organizations and (2) the business model features they make visible to appear as having the "right" organizational model. This study examines the online self-representations of 62 prototypical sharing organizations in Germany with regard to value propositions and business model features. A semantic network analysis of the features reveals two distinct categories of sharing organizations: grassroots initiatives and platform-based organizations. By showing how value propositions and business model features are linked in the sharing economy, the findings indicate the different legitimation strategies of grassroots initiatives and platform-based organizations, which we term "sustainability by model" and "sustainability by feature." These findings broaden our understanding of the strategies that organizations apply to cope with societal expectations in the emerging sharing economy.

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“…For the cases included in our study, this general choice between either nurturing and providing public sharing services or restricting with laws and regulations reflects the way in which government defines its own role as either creator or regulator of the sharing economy. Clearly, such selfdefinition of role and 'role identity' through strategy choice influences the 'counter-roles' of other actors (e.g., sharing economy organizations) and their possibilities to relate and interact (e.g., Jancsary et al 2017).…”

Section: Nurture or Restrict: 'Provision' Versus 'Regulation' Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Envisioning the ‘Sharing City’: Governance Strategies for the Sharing Economy

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Recent developments around the sharing economy bring to the fore questions of governability and broader societal benefitand subsequently the need to explore effective means of public governance, from nurturing, on the one hand, to restriction, on the other. As sharing is a predominately urban phenomenon in modern societies, cities around the globe have become both locus of action and central actor in the debates over the nature and organization of the sharing economy. However, cities vary substantially in the interpretation of potential opportunities and challenges, as well as in their governance responses. Building on a qualitative comparative analysis of 16 leading global cities, our findings reveal four framings of the sharing economy: 'societal endangerment,' 'societal enhancement,' 'market disruption,' and 'ecological transition.' Such framings go hand in hand with patterned governance responses: although there is considerable heterogeneity in the combination of public governance strategies, we find specific configurations of framings and public governance strategies. Our work reflects the political and ethical debates on various economic, social, and moral issues related to the sharing economy, and contributes to a better understanding of the field-level institutional arrangements-a prerequisite for examining moral behavior of sharing economy organizations.

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Toward a Structural Model of Organizational-Level Institutional Pluralism and Logic Interconnectedness

Cited by 39 publications

References 74 publications

Protecting Scientists from Gordon Gekko: How Organizations Use Hybrid Spaces to Engage with Multiple Institutional Logics

Protecting Scientists from Gordon Gekko: How Organizations Use Hybrid Spaces to Engage with Multiple Institutional Logics

The Presentation of Self as Good and Right: How Value Propositions and Business Model Features are Linked in the Sharing Economy

Envisioning the ‘Sharing City’: Governance Strategies for the Sharing Economy

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