This paper reports the findings from a 4-year study on the UK National Health Service on the introduction of a national programme for information technology. This is the largest civil IT programme worldwide at an estimated technical cost of d6.2 billion over a 10-year period. An institutional analysis of our historical and empirical data from six NHS organisations identifies growing fragmentati...

The internal audit function (IAF) importance has been highlighted by legislative and professional responses to various financial scandals. On the other hand, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have institutional logics in controlling business process that pressure the IAF to change. Based on the institutional theory a conceptual framework is formulated to explore the IAF change as a res...

in this work, the pc-saft equation of state (eos) has been used to model the solubility of acid gases (co2 and h2s) in two imidazolium-based ionic liquids (ils) ([c8-mim][pf6] and [c8-mim][tf2n]). parameters of pure ils were estimated using experimental densities. two strategies were considered to model densities of pure ils. in strategy 1, ils were modeled as nonassociating compounds and in st...

The following paper conceptualizes how the dominant institutional logic of the multinational corporation (MNC) is influenced by the local institutional logic of its wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries. It is argued that when both the density and institutional distance of the subsidiaries are high and resource interdependency exists, deinstitutionalization will occur. Institutional behaviours will...

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...

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...