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Swan, Jacky, Bresnen, Mike, Robertson, Maxine, Newell, Susan and Dopson, Sue (2010) When policy meets practice: colliding logics and the challenges of 'mode 2' initiatives in the translation of academic knowledge. Organization Studies, Vol.31 (No.9-10). pp. 1311-1340. doi:10.1177/0170840610374402 ISSN 0170-8406.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840610374402
Abstract
Institutional change has been characterized as the outcome of a dialectical process whereby different constituent communities within an organizational field promote competing institutional logics (Seo and Creed 2002). However, the dynamics of this dialectical process are poorly understood. In this paper, we examine this dialectical process by drawing upon a longitudinal study of a policy intervention in the UK aimed at promoting a logic of knowledge production in genetics science (termed here as 'Mode 2'; cf. Nowotny et al. 2001) that was co-present, and competing, with the dominant logic surrounding the production of academic science ('Mode 1'). We highlight the tensions and interplays that occurred between these competing institutional logics by examining the rhetoric that was propounded, and the actions incurred, and their effects, amongst constituent communities of policy makers and scientists. Our findings demonstrate, first, that tensions can exist within as well as across constituent communities within the organizational field; and, second, how mobilizing a new institutional logic related to knowledge production may produce its own contradictions that can, paradoxically, lead to the simultaneous resurrection (and reinforcement) of the old logic. We discuss the implications for managing projects where these different logics are co-mingled.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Innovation, Knowledge & Organisational Networks Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Information Systems & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Organization Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0170-8406 | ||||
Official Date: | September 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.31 | ||||
Number: | No.9-10 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 30 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 1311-1340 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0170840610374402 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Version or Related Resource: | Also presented at : Swan, J. A., Bresnen, M., Robertson, M., Newell, S. and Dopson, S. When policy meets practice: the problems of 'Mode 2' initiatives in translating academic knowledge. 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, 2009. |
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