373 - Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work Paper Sessions. Institutional Logics and Institutional Complexity

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

This session offers four papers that expand the boundaries of research on institutional logics. Across a diverse array of empirical settings, the papers share an interest in the micro-level processes that arise when institutional fields are complex and organizational actors are cognitively limited. Exploring this micro-macro translation, these studies enrich institutional theory by recovering, interrogating and reintegrating key insights from earlier research on bounded rationality, satisficing, socialization, and ambiguity.

Sub Unit

• Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work / Open Topic on Organizations, Occupations, and Work (5 sessions)

Session Organizer

• Mark C. Suchman, Brown University

Individual Presentations

• Learning Institutional Logics - Vern Glaser, University of Alberta; Jochem Kroezen, University of Cambridge; Patricia H. Thornton, Texas A&M University

• Strategic Ambiguity in Situations of Enduring Institutional Complexity - Vontrese Deeds Pamphile, Northwestern University

• Satisficing and Permissive Institutionalization in the Market: The Case of American Manufacturing - Matt Vidal, King's College London

• Institutional Logic Re-Emergence After Dormancy: Regenerative Institutional Change In Dutch Beer Brewing - Jochem Kroezen, University of Cambridge; Pursey Heugens, Erasmus University

Discussant

• Heather A. Haveman, UC Berkeley