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dc.contributor.author | Martin, G | - |
dc.contributor.author | Currie, G | - |
dc.contributor.author | Weaver, S | - |
dc.contributor.author | Finn, R | - |
dc.contributor.author | McDonald, R | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-07T15:43:55Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-07-07T15:43:55Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Martin, G., Currie, G., Weaver, S., Finn, R. and McDonald, R. (2017) ‘Institutional Complexity and Individual Responses: Delineating the Boundaries of Partial Autonomy’, Organization Studies, 38(1), pp. 103-127. doi: 10.1177/0170840616663241. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0170-8406 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/12916 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Research highlights how co-existing institutional logics can sometimes offer opportunities for agency to enterprising actors in organizational fields. But macro- and micro-level studies using this framework diverge in their approach to understanding the consequences of institutional complexity for actor autonomy, and correspondingly in the opportunities they identify for agents to resist, reinterpret or make judicious use of institutional prescriptions. This paper seeks to bridge this gap, through a longitudinal, comparative case study of the trajectories of four ostensibly similar change initiatives in the same complex organizational field. It studies the influence of three dominant institutional logics (professional, market and corporate) in these divergent trajectories, elucidating the role of mediating influences, operating below the level of the field but above that of the actor, that worked to constrain or facilitate agency. The consequence for actors was a divergent realization of the relationship between the three logics, with very different consequences for their ability to advance their interests. Our findings offer an improved understanding of when and how institutional complexity facilitates autonomy, and suggests mediating influences at the level of the organization and the relationship it instantiates between carriers of logics, neglected by macro- and micro-level studies, that merit further attention. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was funded by the Department of Health, and by the National Institute for Health Research, Health Service and Delivery Research (NIHR HS&DR) programme (project number 09/1001/40). | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Department of Health; National Institute for Health Research, Health Service and Delivery Research (NIHR HS&DR) programme (project number 09/1001/40). | - |
dc.format.extent | 103 - 127 | - |
dc.format.medium | Print-Electronic | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications on behalf of European Group for Organizational Studies | en_US |
dc.subject | institutions | en_US |
dc.subject | institutional logics | en_US |
dc.subject | healthcare | en_US |
dc.subject | professionalism | en_US |
dc.subject | managerialism | en_US |
dc.subject | markets | en_US |
dc.subject | National Health Service | en_US |
dc.subject | England | en_US |
dc.title | Institutional complexity and individual responses: Delineating the boundaries of partial autonomy | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840616663241 | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Organization Studies | - |
pubs.issue | 1 | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
pubs.volume | 38 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1741-3044 | - |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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