The Institutional Logics Perspective

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Title

The Institutional Logics Perspective

Abstract/Description

This essay discusses a new approach to institutional analysis—the institutional logics perspective (ILP). This perspective is a meta-theory useful for integrating and augmenting a variety of social science theories to better understand the effects of cultural institutions on individuals, organizations, and societies. We describe the history of the development of the ILP, define its core concepts and mechanisms, and review and discuss foundational and cutting-edge research. Prior overviews emphasize the mechanisms, variety of substantive contexts, and the cross-level effects. We take a different approach by organizing the literature review by institutional orders. This meta-analysis reveals a pattern of institutional change—the weakening of the professions and the spread of the market logic in many domains. We discuss implications of this finding and suggest future research.

Author/creator

Thornton, Patricia H.

Ocasio, William

Lounsbury, Michael

Date

2015

In publication

Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Pages

1-22

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Resource type

en Background/Context

Medium

en Print

Background/context type

en Conceptual

Keywords

institutional change

institutional fields

institutional logics

institutional orders

institutional theory

Open access/free-text available

en Yes

Peer reviewed

en No

Language

en

ISBN

978-1-118-90077-2

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (Wiley Online Library)

Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)

Citation

Thornton, P. H., Ocasio, W., & Lounsbury, M. (2015). The Institutional Logics Perspective. In Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (pp. 1–22). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0187

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