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Interpretation of multiple institutional logics on the ground : actors' position, their agency and situational constraints in professionalized contexts
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Currie, Graeme and Spyridonidis, Dimitrios (2016) Interpretation of multiple institutional logics on the ground : actors' position, their agency and situational constraints in professionalized contexts. Organization studies, 37 (1). pp. 77-97. doi:10.1177/0170840615604503 ISSN 0170-8406.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840615604503
Abstract
Our study examines how interdependent actors in a professionalized context interpret the co-occurrence of a professional logic and a policy-driven logic. The empirical setting comprises two hospitals in the English National Health Service. Two issues stand out. First, our study shows that any logic is variegated and ambiguous, so policymakers and organizational managers cannot assume that they are easily blended. Second, it shows how nurse consultants exhibit agency in blending these two logics in pursuit of positional gain in professional and managerial organization. They can do so because of their ambiguous status level: in comparison to doctors, their status as nurses is low; within the nursing profession their status is high. Theoretically, by focusing upon interpretation of multiple institutional logics at the micro level, our study renders visible the agency of interpreting actors, interdependency of actors, their interpretation of institutional logics, situational context, and the effect of, and upon, social position of actors.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Complex organizations, National health services | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Organization studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0170-8406 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 January 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 37 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 41 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 77-97 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0170840615604503 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 January 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 January 2016 |
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