Abstract This book chapter takes an institutional perspective on competing logics in global markets concerned with sustainability values and how market actors the form of buyers sellers attempt to solve these conflicting situations. We do this by identifying contexts aiming for values, together techniques navigating organizational field studied. As empirical illustration, we use a case study tw...

Poverty reduction is critical for global socio-political stability. In this paper we start from the observation that divergent institutional logics may indirectly uphold conditions of poverty. We focus on intermediation practices an organization working in Tanzania to deepen collaboration between forest sector stakeholders. Our findings show how operational inefficiencies perpetuate deprivation...

This paper develops a typology of incumbent resistance to disruptive new logics. Although scholars institutional change have studied public forms resistance, comprehensive understanding how incumbents oppose logics also necessitates attention the quiet resistance. Conceptualizing as form work, we draw on insights from literatures and social movements develop public, hidden, implicit Broadening ...

This paper draws upon the institutional theory lens to examine enterprise information systems. We propose that these information systems engender a duality. On one hand, these systems are subject to institutional forces and institutional processes that set the rules of rationality. On the other hand, they are an important embodiment of institutional commitments and serve to preserve these rules...