Using the lens of Institutional Logics this paper considers the diffusion and translation of the Anglo American MBA as a global idea in China. The application of Institutional Logics allows us to review the conclusions of Mazza et al., (2007) and Clegg et al., (2005), who stress the prevalence of local translations of the MBA as it travels globally. Our study highlights two dominant institution...

We propose a novel approach to theorizing hybridity in public and nonprofit organizations. The concept of hybridity is widely used to describe organizational responses to changes in governance, but the literature seldom explains how hybrids arise or what forms they take. Transaction cost and organizational design literatures offer some solutions, but lack a theory of agency. We use the institut...

In this conceptual paper, we respond to the calls for broader theoretical approaches that can coherently demonstrate a high degree of sensitivity multiple combinations institutional factors influencing women's informal entrepreneurship (WIE) and related agency. We do so by integrating constructs gender inequality with those logics voids. find refined understanding voids is required pave way mea...

The relationship between institutional change and entrepreneurship is poorly understood. We build the theory in this area by tracing institutional change in the US electric power industry over a 40-year period. Our analysis shows that environmental jolts mobilize actors to reformulate institutions, resulting in increased entrepreneurial opportunity. When the institutional environment is stable,...

We prove an institutional version of Tarski’s elementary chain theorem applicable to a whole plethora of ‘first-orderaccessible’ logics, which are, roughly speaking, logics whose sentences can be constructed from atomic formulae by means of classical first-order connectives and quantifiers. These include the unconditional equational, positive, ð [ Þ0n and full first-order logics, as well as les...

Recently, a number of inbreeding cases have surfaced that fuelled public criticism recruitment practices and the lack mobility in Swedish higher education sector. This study focuses on at universities, particularly divergence between what seems to be practice hiring internal candidates policy aiming increasing mobility. The empirical material comprises 14 interviews with heads departments selec...

In unsettled fields with multiple ideal-typical institutional logics, why do organizations tend to weaken or conform to prevalent logic order? We argue that prestige –defined as a tribute paid by field members to a select few with valued distinctive traits– plays a determinant role in explaining institutional heterodoxy (i.e., the choice to stop instantiating dominant logics or start instantiat...

Abstract This essay explores structural changes in practices through a convergence between particular version of the institutional logics approach theory and my own account social practices. Part one presents these approaches as contemporary versions idea that objective, or common, contentful orientations govern The discussion elucidates practice organizations arrays such how they shape human a...