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作者：Creed, W. E. Douglas; DeJordy, Rich; Lok, Jaco
作者单位：University of Rhode Island; Northeastern University; University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：We show how gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) ministers in two main-line Protestant denominations in the United States experience and address a salient institutional contradiction between their role in the church and their marginalized GLBT identities. Drawing on this analysis, we offer a theoretical model of the microprocesses through which marginalized actors who are committed to the institution in which they are embedded can begin to think and act as agents of institutional cha...
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作者：Meyer, Renate E.; Hoellerer, Markus A.
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：When organizational concepts spread beyond national and cultural boundaries, they must pass through powerful filters of local cultural and structural opportunities and constraints in order to mobilize legitimacy. Struggles over their meaning are intensified if they challenge the prevailing order. Drawing on the case of shareholder value in Austria, we examine how the different ways of framing a contested issue in public discourse are related to the local cultural and sociopolitical context. We...
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作者：Battilana, Julie; Dorado, Silvia
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Rhode Island
摘要：We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a ready-to-wear model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine. The results of our comparative study of two pioneering commercial microfinance organizations suggest that to be sustainable, new types of hybrid organizations need to create a common organizational identity that strikes a balance bet...
