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

by Michael Lounsbury, William Ocasio, Patricia H. Thornton

Book Overview

How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines have offered a range of theories and perspectives to provide answers to this question. Within organization studies in recent years, several scholars have developed the institutional logics perspective. An institutional logic is the set of material practices and symbolic systems including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199601941
• ISBN13: 9780199601943
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"