Abstract
Joining recent calls to focus our attention on how institutional logics work on the ground, I offer a critique of current studies of institutional logics that often offer a macro and reified depictions thereof. I suggest that to fully appreciate how institutions matter, we need to complement these studies with a research program that is based on a constructivist ontology, ethnographic methods of inquiry, and use of theories of action. I exemplify this emerging research agenda, and discuss its broader analytical and empirical implications.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 137-155 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Research in the Sociology of Organizations |
| Volume | 48A |
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| State | Published - 2016 |
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Keywords
- Constructivist ontology
- Institutional logics
- Qualitative methods
- Theories of action