Journal
BUSINESS & SOCIETY
Volume 59, Issue 5, Pages 855-880Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0007650317745634
Keywords
institutional logics; institutional theory; Islamic Entrepreneurship; Islamic Finance; religion
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- Chair for Organization Studies at the University of Hamburg
- Institute for Organization Studies at Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Said Business School at the University of Oxford
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
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Religion is a significant social force on organizational practice yet has been relatively underexamined in organization theory. In this article, I assert that the institutional logics perspective is especially conducive to examine the macrolevel role of religion for organizations. The notion of the religious logic offers conceptual means to explain the significance of religion, its interrelationship with other institutional orders, and embeddedness into and impact across interinstitutional systems. I argue for intrainstitutional logic plurality and show that specifically the intrareligious logic plurality has been rather disregarded with a relative focus on Christianity and a geographical focus on the West. Next, I propose the concept of interinstitutional logic prevalence and show that the religious logic in particular may act as a metalogic due to its potential for uniqueness, ultimacy, and ubiquity. Through illustrations from Islamic Finance and Entrepreneurship, I exemplify implications of logic plurality and prevalence for organizations and societies.
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