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JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INQUIRY
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 139-145Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1056492616670756
Keywords
institutional theory; change management; organization theory; organizational design
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- ESRC [ES/G038082/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/G038082/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Research on hybrid organizations and institutional complexity commonly depicts the presence of multiple logics within organizations as an exceptional situation. In this article, we argue that all organizations routinely adhere to multiple institutional logics. Institutional complexity only arises episodically, when organizations embrace a newly salient logic. We propose two concepts to develop this insight. First, we suggest the notion of organizational settlement to refer to the way in which organizations durably incorporate multiple logics. Second, we define organizational hybridization as a change process whereby organizations abandon their existing organizational settlement and transition to a new one, incorporating a newly salient logic. Overall, we propose a shift in attention from the exceptionality of hybrid configurations of multiple logics toward exploring the dynamics of transitions from one state of complexity to another.
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