The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process

By Patricia H. Thornton, William Ocasio, Michael Lounsbury. 2012

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Organizational Structure, Information Processing, and Decision-Making: A Retrospective and Road Map for Research (2020, background): “9 Establishing a link between embeddedness and situatedness to account for organizational behavior is an important development in the institutional theory (cf. Thornton et al., 2012); however, it has not yet been applied by studies to information processing and decision-making.”
Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? (2018, positive): “The literature on institutional logics provides a useful language for describing the heterogeneous motives underlying economic action (Pahnke, Katila, & Eisenhardt, 2015; Thornton, Ocasio, & Lounsbury, 2012).”
Digital Disruption beyond Uber and Airbnb—Tracking the long tail of the sharing economy (2020, background): “…1 0.1% 0 0.0% 1 0.1% Music services 1 0.1% 0 0.0% 1 0.1% Total 1929 100.0% 414 100.0% 1515 100.0% institutional turbulence in their respective sectors by introducing a platform logic (cf. Cannon and Summers, 2014; Laurell and Sandström, 2016; Mair and Reischauer, 2017; Thornton et al., 2012).”
Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: : Identity coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives (2016, background): “Environmental entrepreneurs are inherently implicated in hybrid organizing, because incompatible institutional logics, defined as shared meaning systems that confer legitimacy upon particular goals and practices (Thornton et al., 2012), are pursued within an organization.”
Institutional Frame Switching: How Institutional Logics Shape Individual Action (2016, neutral): “, individual actions and social interaction) (Thornton et al., 2012).”
Market mediators and the tradeoffs of legitimacy-seeking behaviors in a nascent category (2014, positive): “Contribution to Institutional Logics Literature The case of CCOF and the emergence and growth of the organic food category sheds light on how divergent logics get embedded in market categories and organizational forms (Thornton et al. 2012; Pache and Santos 2013, Purdy and Gray 2009; Nigam and Ocasi”
Voluntary adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards by large unlisted companies in Portugal – Institutional logics and strategic responses (2012, background): “Contrary to the simplified assumptions of neo-institutional theory that tended to bifurcate behavior as rational versus non-rational, society is viewed as an inter-institutional system composed of different institutional orders, each presenting a unique view of rationality (Thornton et al., 2012).”
Understanding Agency Problems in Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationships in Multinational Corporations: A Contextualized Model (2018, methodology): “…with the root causes of the agency problem, we offered novel conceptualizations of unit-level self-interest and bounded rationality based respectively on institutional logics (Thornton et al., 2012; Thornton & Ocasio, 2008) and shared frames and cognitions (Dacin et al, 1999; N. Foss & Weber, 2016.”
Institutional work: Taking stock and making it matter (2017, background): “Even in their exhaustive articulation of an institutional logics perspective, Thornton et al. (2012) pay little attention to the potential for actors to engage in work aimed at shaping major societal institutions.”