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ORGANIZATION STUDIES
Volume 35, Issue 1, Pages 7-39Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613495333
Keywords
status; institutional complexity; organizational identity; institutional logics
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How organizations cope with multiple and sometimes conflicting institutional demands is an increasingly familiar yet little understood question. This paper examines how four French business schools responded to demands that they internationalize their management education whilst retaining their traditional identities. We trace the role played by field-level actors in pushing and articulating competing logics and the importance of institutional and organizational identity in how organizations respond. By highlighting the role of identity aspirations we show that what matters is not how an organization sees itself-i.e., what it is-but how it wants to see itself-i.e., what it wishes to become. Finally, we unpack and explain why status differences across organizations affect the nature of the opportunities that are perceived and the scale and format of the responses that are implemented.
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