Title of dissertation: INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS, INDIE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS AND PLATFORM GOVERNANCE Yixin Qiu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by Professor Anandasivam Gopal Professor Il-Horn Hann Department of Decision, Operations & Information Technologies, R.H.Smith School of Business This two-essay dissertation aims to study institutional logics in the context of Apple’s indepen...

In this study, we evaluate the adoption of IT resources within the U.S. healthcare system from the perspective of institutional logics. Our analysis focuses on the impact that increased use of electronic health records (EHR) systems and other health IT have on the interactions between diverse stakeholders and the values and objectives driving EHR adoption. Our findings suggest a broader range o...

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 ...