Organizational settlements: theorizing how organizations respond to institutional complexity
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Author(s)
Schildt, H
Perkmann, M
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Research on hybrid organizations and institutional complexity commonly depicts the presence of multiple logics within organizations as an exceptional situation. In this essay, we argue that all organizations routinely adhere to multiple institutional logics. Institutional complexity only arises episodically, when organizations embrace a newly salient logic. We propose two concepts to develop this insight. First, we suggest the notion of organizational settlement to refer to the way in which organizations durably incorporate multiple logics. Second, we define organizational hybridization as a change process whereby organizations abandon their existing organizational settlement and transition to a new one, incorporating a newly salient logic. Overall, we propose a shift in attention from the exceptionality of hybrid configurations of multiple logics towards exploring the dynamics of transitions from one state of complexity to another.
Date Issued
2016-09-25
Date Acceptance
2016-08-23
Citation
Journal of Management Inquiry, 2016, 26 (2), pp.139-145
ISSN
1552-6542
Publisher
SAGE Publications (UK and US)
Start Page
139
End Page
145
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Management Inquiry
Volume
26
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2016. This is an open access article distributed under a CC-BY 3.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Sponsor
Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
Identifier
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1056492616670756
Grant Number
ES/G038082/1
Subjects
Social Sciences
Management
Business & Economics
institutional theory
change management
organization theory
organizational design
HYBRID ORGANIZATIONS
MULTILEVEL MODEL
STRATEGIC CHANGE
PRIVATE SCIENCE
CULTURAL-CHANGE
LOGICS
INDUSTRY
INNOVATION
IDENTITY
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
institutional complexity
institutional logics
hybrid organizations
1503 Business And Management
Business & Management
Publication Status
Published