The immateriality of material practices in institutional logics

Candace Jones (), Eva Boxenbaum () and Callen Anthony
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Candace Jones: BC - Boston College
Eva Boxenbaum: CBS - Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen], CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Callen Anthony: BC - Boston College

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Abstract: According to most theoretical formulations, institutional logics contain both an ideational and a material dimension. While the ideational aspect, such as cognitive frames and symbols, has received significant attention in the growing literature on institutional logics, the material aspect has remained largely invisible and often implicit. We analyze the 16 most central theoretical and empirical works on institutional logics with the aim of exploring how the material dimension of logics has been conceptualized and researched. Our findings suggest that materiality has been interpreted primarily as practices and structures, and rarely as physical objects. We explore some consequences of omitting physical materials as an object of study in institutional logics research and point to avenues for future research that may enhance theory development of institutional logics by explicitly attending to the role of materials.

Keywords: institutional logics; materiality; logiques institutionnelles; materialité (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-07-01
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Published in M. Lounsbury & E. Boxenbaum. Institutional Logics in Action, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 39A, Emerald, pp.51-75, 2013, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 39A, 978-1-78190-918-8

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