FRONT COVER; INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS IN ACTION, PART A; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ADVISORY BOARD; INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL 2 VOLUME SET; INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS IN ACTION; INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS: FROM CRITIQUE TO MAINSTREAM PERSPECTIVE; PAPERS IN THIS SPECIAL DOUBLE VOLUME; CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; NOTE; REFERENCES; META-THEORETICAL ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES; GOD, LOVE, AND OTHER GOOD REASONS FOR PRACTICE: THINKING THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS; ORIGINS; MAX WEBER'S VALUE SPHERES AND INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; THE NATURE OF INSTITUTIONAL DEITIES, VALUES, SUBSTANCES, AND INSTITUTIONAL GODS STRATEGIC ACTION FIELDS; THE CONVENTION OF WORLDS; LOVE AND THE INSTITUTIONAL LIFE OF MORTAL GODS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; THE IMMATERIALITY OF MATERIAL PRACTICES IN INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS; METHODS: A VOCABULARY APPROACH TO ANALYZING DIMENSIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS; FINDINGS: VOCABULARY FREQUENCY IN DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS; METHODS: A VOCABULARY APPROACH TO ANALYZING DIMENSIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS; FINDINGS: VOCABULARY FREQUENCY IN DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS, BRINGING MATERIAL BACK IN TO INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS: A WAY FORWARD CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS AND INSTITUTIONAL WORK: SHOULD THEY BE AGREED?; BRINGING MATERIAL BACK IN TO INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS: A WAY FORWARD; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; APPENDIX A: 16 ARTICLES WITH VOCABULARY OF ''INSTITUTIONAL LOGIC*'' AND ''MATERIAL*,'' CITING FRIEDLAND AND ALFORD (1991) WITH 200 OR MORE GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATIONS; APPENDIX B: KEY TERMS FOR COGNITIVE, NORMATIVE, AND MATERIAL DIMENSIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS; INSTITUTIONAL LOGIC PROCESSES, and A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES: HOW DIFFERENT CONSTELLATIONS OF LOGICS IMPACT ACTION THEORETICAL BACKGROUND; RESEARCH SETTINGS; METHODOLOGY; CONSTELLATIONS OF LOGICS AND ACTION; ACTION IN LIGHT OF CONSTELLATIONS OF LOGICS; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; PROCESSES FOR RETRENCHING LOGICS: THE ALBERTA OIL SANDS CASE, 2008-2011; THEORY; METHOD; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES; APPENDIX; INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS AS STRATEGIC RESOURCES; THE LOGICS OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN; COMBINING OR ABANDONING A LOGIC FOR MANAGERIALISM?; METHODS; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; NOTES
Summary
The Institutional Logics Perspective is one of the fastest growing new theoretical areas in organization studies (Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury, 2012). Building on early efforts by Friedland & Alford (1991) to ""bring society back in"" to the study of organizational dynamics, this new scholarly domain has revived institutional analysis by embracing a focus on the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of institutions. In doing so, it has embraced a more practice-centered approach to agency that emphasizes situated interactions, the importance of history, the role of both symbolic and material elementary.
