CONFLICTING LOGICS, MECHANISMS OF DIFFUSION, AND MULTILEVEL DYNAMICS IN EMERGING INSTITUTIONAL FIELDS

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Purdy, Jill M.; Gray, Barbara
• 署名单位: University of Washington; University of Washington Tacoma; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2009.37308255
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 355-380
• 关键词: COMPETING LOGICS; TRANSFORMATION; entrepreneurship; Isomorphism; EVOLUTION; CHOICE; rise

摘要

We examine the evolution of a new population of organizations (state offices of dispute resolution) in an emerging institutional field, focusing on how actions at multiple levels interact recursively to enable multiple logics to diffuse. Logics became institutionalized as organizational practices within the field of alternative dispute resolution through four diffusion mechanisms: transformation, grafting, bridging, and exit. By describing the interplay among entrepreneurial efforts, strategic responses to resource dependencies, and mechanisms of institutionalization over 22 years, we identify the conditions that enabled multiple practices supported by conflicting logics, rather than a single, dominant organizational form, to be institutionalized.