Title
Conflicting Logics, Mechanisms of Diffusion, and Multilevel Dynamics in Emerging Institutional Fields
Publication Date
4-1-2009
Abstract
We examine the evolution of a new population of organizations (state offices of dispute resolution) in an emerging institutional field, focusing on how actions at multiple levels interact recursively to enable multiple logics to diffuse. Logics became institutionalized as organizational practices within the field of alternative dispute resolution through four diffusion mechanisms: transformation, grafting, bridging, and exit. By describing the interplay among entrepreneurial efforts, strategic responses to resource dependencies, and mechanisms of institutionalization over 22 years, we identify the conditions that enabled multiple practices supported by conflicting logics, rather than a single, dominant organizational form, to be institutionalized.
Publication Title
Academy Of Management Journal
Volume
52
Issue
2
First Page
355
Last Page
380
DOI
10.5465/AMJ.2009.37308255
Publisher Policy
post-print on author's website (no IR)
Recommended Citation
Purdy, Jill M. and Gray, Barbara, "Conflicting Logics, Mechanisms of Diffusion, and Multilevel Dynamics in Emerging Institutional Fields" (2009). Business Publications. 3.
https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/business_pub/3
