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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"institutional logics"”.
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SERVICE LEARNING: AN INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS APPROACH
… and of the public it serves. In this study, an institutional logic framework is used in examining how the implementation of transformative pedagogy in medical education may be impeded by competing institutional logics, thereby disrupting the change process. This study proposed three questions …
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Digital Darwinism: Temporal Myopia and the Transformation of Institutional Logics
… demands the transformation of the established institutional logic.<br/><br/>To this end, this second volume of this study, complemented by the portfolio of projects presented in volume one, will offer a theoretically grounded model to capture and ultimately explain these revolutionary drivers …
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Competing Institutional Logics in Islamic Financial Reporting Standardisation: A Comparative Study
… heterogeneous objectives. Employing Institutional Logics Perspective (ILP) as a theoretical framework and case-study approach as a research design, this study provides comparative accounts into the role of selected institutional logics (religion, profession, market, community and …
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The Emergence of Sustainability Reporting in Pakistan – The Institutional Logics Perspective
This study seeks to examine the institutional logics and processual dynamics behind the emergence of sustainability reporting (hereafter SR) in Pakistan. It investigates both the emergence of the SR field, as well as logics and processes of the initiation and implementation of SR in eight …
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Transfer and persistence of spiritual values as institutional logics in post-founding social ventures
… and persist within the venture to become an institutional logic? Interpretivism serves as the paradigm for my study. The research follows a qualitative approach, employing case studies for an in-depth exploration of the data. A sample of sixty participants, comprising founders and employees, …
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Institutional Logics and the Double Bottom Line: A Study of Chikum Microfinance Bank Limited
… competition between two seemingly incompatible logics of action. Assumptions about the incompatibility of profit and mission motives have dominated the literature and led to a neglect of how some MFIs may be successful in integrating both logics.</p> <p>This study elaborates on the specific …
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The Making of a Professional: Institutional Logics of Teacher Education and Teacher Professional Identity Formation
… teachers across four states. Grounded in institutional theory, the three papers draw upon these data to investigate how reforms to teacher education become institutionalized and come to shape teacher education programs, as organizations, and teachers, as individuals. Together, this work …
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Post-Acquisition Management Accounting and Control Systems in an Islamic Bank: An Institutional Logics Perspective.
… a theoretical basis, the case study employs the institutional logics perspective (ILP) of Thornton et al (2012). The analysis of the case study identifies many important MACS that the bank relied on post-acquisition such as, the Balanced Scorecards (BSC) and Budget. The acquired bank benefited …
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Impact Investing in the Renewable Energy Sector: Stakeholder Salience, Ethical Sensemaking, Institutional Logics, and Identity
… management theory, ethical sensemaking, and institutional logics, by exploring impact investing decision making within the renewable energy sector. Multiple motives and objectives of impact investing decision-makers, individual factors, institutional influences, and the various stakeholders’ …
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Institutional change in the Irish university 2008-2014: an examination through the lens of institutional logics
Institutional change is an important research area in the context of the evolution of the Irish university sector. 2008-2014 was an eventful period in bringing about changes within the sector. Drivers of transformation led by the state during this time arose from two distinct sources; developments …
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Normative Orders in the Coast Guard Response to Melting Arctic Ice: Institutional Logics or Anchoring Concepts
Underlying institutional forms are normative orders which give meaning to rules, norms, practices and customs. It is only recently that scholars have seriously considered the role of normative orders in institutional dynamics. Two meta-theories of institutionalism offer competing visions of how …
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Institutional logics influence on organisational female career progression: a study of the British and German public sector
This thesis explores the role of conflicting institutional logics in shaping the creation, implementation, and interpretation of certain gender equality practices in the public sector spaces of the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany. It further explores the factors that influence individual and …
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The politics of leadership organizing in informal settlements: ambiguities of speaking publicly and mediating conflicting institutional logics
… of how leadership should be organized and what institutional logics should be adapted. The main argument is that the politics of leadership organizing consist of balancing bureaucratic and democratic logics, which are not an act of mimicking or decoupling, but have evolved through historical and …
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Changing for the Better? Essays on the Role of Institutional Logics and Information System in Organizational Sustainability Transformations
… organizational, and individual factors. Institutional logics and information systems (IS) have shown to be two important perspectives from which to explore mechanisms and processes central to organizational sustainability transformations. Institutional logics offer a unique perspective to …
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The Dynamics of Digital Platform Orchestration: Unfolding the Institutional Logics Shifts and Fields Restructuring in the Chinese Used Car Market
… research proposes a theoretical framework using institutional logic and field theory to examine the platform orchestration process. The key findings are the following. First, the adoption of a platform is not a direct economic or rational choice by the interested party, but a result of a …
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Systemic Corruption: A Multi-Theoretic, Multi-Level and Mixed Methods Analysis of the Interplay among Institutional Logics, Strategic Agency and Reward Expectancy
… to multidisciplinary perspectives encompassing institutional, agency, reward and structuration theories and employed sequential mixed methods approaches to yield a multi-level theory of corruption.At the individual level, a qualitative study of 32 founders/CEOs reveals that (1) business owners …
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Reading the future : constructing low-carbon imaginaries in urban institutions
… examines how actors’ engagements with the institutional logics or frames of reference embedded in an organisation (Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury, 2012) determine or divert potential pathways of change. Using Paul Ricoeur’s futureoriented hermeneutics (1988, 2008) as a guide, the study …
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Global securities analysts' evaluations of family firms in emerging markets: The sociological perspective on the operations of financial markets
… stock exchange market. I examine how multiple institutional logics – profession-based logic at the global level and corporate governance-based logic at the national level – influence analysts’ coverage and ratings for family-dominated firms in emerging markets. Specifically, I aim to address …
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The institutional axis of hegemony: Phasing out coal at the Port of Newcastle
… fuel hegemony’, developing the concept of an ‘institutional axis’ of hegemony to analyse barriers to SSP in particular contexts. By concentrating on the state and the institutional dimension of hegemony, this thesis complements existing research into the fossil fuel industry’s material and …
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The institutional axis of hegemony: Phasing out coal at the Port of Newcastle
… fuel hegemony’, developing the concept of an ‘institutional axis’ of hegemony to analyse barriers to SSP in particular contexts. By concentrating on the state and the institutional dimension of hegemony, this thesis complements existing research into the fossil fuel industry’s material and …
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