Abstract Transforming into agile ways of working in large organizations can be performed different ways. Many choose a defined large-scale software development framework but how the transformation is carried out could based on sorts logics. This paper investigates institutional logics at play transformations. By studying two case organizations, aims improving our understanding transformations b...

We examine the rhetorical strategy of architects in widely available architectural texts, to identify what words are available for use in the cultural register. Our results show that these cultural register texts use distinct but related rhetorics; vocabularies of competency that are revealed through clusters of keywords and which capture institutional logics of business, profession and state. ...

Throughout human affairs there are two dual logics. Albert Hirschman investigated the two logics as the parallel-oriented logic of exit and the series-oriented logic of commitment, loyalty, and voice. Economics focuses almost exclusively on the logic of exit and questions of institutional design are seen through that lens. One goal here is to flesh out the alternative commitment-oriented logic ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how performance measurement and management (PMM) practices are implicated in the exercise of power in organizations through the theoretical lens of institutional entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach – The paper builds on a longitudinal field study in a Chinese local government department conducted over a period of six years. Findings – ...

Business groups, the leading economic players in emerging economies, have responded to the market‐oriented transition primarily through corporate restructuring. Agency theory predicts that acquisition and divestiture would serve the interests of dominant families and foreign investors in different ways. Further, dominant families, foreign investors from shareholder‐based countries, and foreign ...