The hybridization movement reflects the shift and convergence of market-focused corporations on one hand social oriented organizations other towards more integrated value-creating hybrid arrangements. Hybridity is usually defined as combination two different contradicting institutional logics. However, hybridity literature incongruent, inconsistent seemingly addressing spheres hybridity, render...

Purpose This paper examines the historical evolvement of competing institutional logics (i.e. religion, profession, state, market and community) underpinning Islamic accounting standardisation projects power relations between internal actors representing these logics. Design/methodology/approach The adopts a case-study approach analyses two implemented at national international levels. Document...

Organizations are awash in a wide range of practices that are guided by a variety of goals, values, assumptions, and identities. New enterprise systems are consistent with many of these practices, yet conflict with others. Using institutional theory, we show how the congruence with the institutional logics associated with an ERP implementation affects the local responses to the system. This ins...

This chapter advances the theoretical construct of institutional innovation, which we define as novel, useful and legitimate change that disrupts, to varying degrees, the cognitive, normative, or regulative mainstays of an organizational field. Institutional innovation, like all innovation, is both novel and useful, but differs in that it is also legitimate, credible and appropriate. Legitimacy...

Actors who support dissimilar institutional models can overcome conflict and move toward mutually beneficial coexistence. To see how, we studied the emergence of venture philanthropy, a rationalized approach to organizational philanthropy in Europe. Our analysis leverages multiple sources of data and focuses on field-configuring events as settings for interactions. We show how convening—bringin...

Drawing on the theory of social action in organizational and institutional sociology, this paper examines the behavioral consequences of plural logics of action. It addresses the question based on the empirical case of plural medical systems that are composed of both biomedicine and alternative medicine. Applying mixed methods of a cross-national panel data analysis and a content analysis of me...