The present study investigates how a high-tech-small-firm (HTSF) can carry out an inter-organizational search of actors located at universities. Responding to calls to study how firms navigate multiple institutional norms, this research examines the different strategies used by a HTSF to balance adopted academic norm-sets, commercial imperatives and formal regulations to support formation of ne...

Following years of rapid economic growth, China currently faces a crisis of its economic institutions. Unconstrained business behavior has led to the accumulation of externalities with high social costs. In this paper we consider the challenges of institutional change that China faces, especially the need to evolve a system of ‘hard constraints’ reinforced by ‘soft constraints’. We describe the...

Developing information infrastructure entails changing organizations and institutions. Such changes sometimes proceed relatively smoothly, but often meet with “friction.” This paper describes the development of a national infrastructure for sharing of information among government agencies and highlights how the social, organizational and institutional changes necessary for information sharing h...

Higher education institutions (HEI) are maneuvering the competing institutional logics of academia and commerce, which provide widely conflicting bases for legitimacy ascriptions. HEI that try to internalize both become hybrids, addressing resulting internal tensions conflicts through efforts structural separation or blending. Whereas these generic approaches have been well described, also HEI,...

This paper examines the development of trust in interorganisational relationships (IORs) that are embedded conflicting institutional logics. The study focuses on a recently established customer choice system for domestic elderly care involves complex constellation logics parties involved IORs to handle. We explore how boundary spanners deal with and impact it has IORs, including both positive n...

Logical architectures combine several logics into a more complex logical system. In this paper we study logical architectures using input/output operations corresponding to the functionality of logical components. We propose a logic of normative systems, based on an architecture of counts-as conditionals, institutional constraints, obligations and permissions. For counts-as conditionals and ins...