Article history: Received 17 November 2013 Received in revised form 25 May 2014 Accepted 25 May 2014 Available online xxxx This paper aims to deepen our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the mutual constitution of competing institutional logics and sociomaterial entanglements by combining a sociomaterial lens with the institutional logics perspective. We present findings from an interp...

The history of the Animal Protection Movement is discussed as a case of social movement transformation. Transformation here refers to significant shifts in the goals, strategies, tactics, and membership of the movement and that I suggest reflect the shifting institutional bases of the movement. What emerges as a reform movement of aging elite evangelicals in the earlyto midNineteenth Century En...

This commentary on the recent think piece by Mannion and Exworthy reviews their core arguments, highlighting their suggestion that recent forces for personalization have emerged which may counterbalance the strong standardization wave which has been evident in many healthcare settings and systems over the last two decades. These forces for personalization can take very different forms. The comm...

Through a case study of Ghana’s TradeNet, a business-to-government (B2G) Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) implemented to automate and integrate customs clearance, this article investigates ‘irrationalities’ of IT-enabled change in the context of a developing country bureaucracy. Our data revealed that despite TradeNet’s potential for full automation and integration, bureaucrats sometimes prefe...

We develop many-valued logic, including a generic abstract model theory, over a fully abstract syntax. We show that important many-valued logic model theories, such as traditional first-order many-valued logic and fuzzy multi-algebras, may be conservatively embedded into our abstract framework. Our development is technically based upon the so-called theory of institutions of Goguen and Burstall...

Quality issues strike the classical conflict in a democratic health-care delivery system of different interests among the politicians, the medical profession and public officials. This cannot be studied as a cut-off whiz. Quality registers have developed over the past 40 years. Therefore, this paper puts the innovation of quality registers in an institutional perspective. Two things are essenti...

The question of how new organizational forms are created remains an unsolved problem in new institutional theory. We argue that one important way that new organizational forms emerge is through a process of bridging institutional entrepreneurship, which involves an institutional entrepreneur combining aspects of established institutional logics to create a new type of organization underpinned b...

Logical architectures combine several logics into a more complex logical system. In this paper we study a logical architecture using input/output operations corresponding to the functionality of logical components. We illustrate how the architectural approach can be used to develop a logic of a normative system based on logics of counts-as conditionals, institutional constraints, obligations an...