The institutional logics approach is a powerful lens with which to examine and understand contexts in norms conceptions are multiple, unclear or flux. While at the societal level have been well elaborated are, most part, widely understood accepted, field not necessarily so clear. Field frames distort, merge confuse logic as actors negotiate, rebalance, bridge interpret recursively constitutive ...

Institutional IS research focuses on explaining IS adoption depending on its alignment with a set of coherent institutional pressures. In contrast, institutional logics research emphasises the institutional complex and contested nature of most organisational contexts where multiple and often divergent institutional logics interact to shape organisational action. Adopting an institutional logic ...

Institutional logics guide social action. Research has examined outcomes of logics, including organizational strategies and structures, and demonstrated they are historically contingent. Less is known about the responses of organizations when logics change. Currently, the imagery is of organizations responding uniformly. Yet, a uniform response is unlikely. We examine how Spanish manufacturing ...

This study examines the use of enterprise social media (ESM) for organizational knowledge sharing and shows that professionals face ambiguities because their knowledge sharing behavior is informed by an institutional complexity that consists of 2 dissimilar institutional logics: logics of the profession, and logics of the corporation. Our qualitative case study of an ESM at an IT consultancy or...

Research on hybrid organizations and institutional complexity commonly depicts the presence of multiple logics within organizations as an exceptional situation. In this article, we argue that all organizations routinely adhere to multiple institutional logics. Institutional complexity only arises episodically, when organizations embrace a newly salient logic. We propose two concepts to develop ...