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Interested in Capturing Institutional Logics?

  • 1.  Interested in Capturing Institutional Logics?

    Posted 06-22-2015 18:39

    Dear colleague:

     

    Are you currently doing qualitative research on institutional logics, or conducting research that might involve institutional logics and its measurement? Or are you simply interested in the institutional logics perspective and want to know more? We invite you to join us for Professional Development Workshop (Session # 83): Qualitatively Capturing Institutional Logics at the Academy of Management! (See the following link: http://program.aom.org/2015/submission.asp?mode=ShowSession&SessionID=886)


    The workshop will be held on Friday, August 7, from10:15-12:45 at the Vancouver Convention Center in Room 202. You will not only get inspirations from distinguished speakers in this area of research, but also be able to contribute your vibrant ideas to our engaging discussion. 

     

    This PDW will provide an overview of three current strategies by scholars who study institutional logics and engage with qualitative data. The presenters will discuss: 

     

    1) Pattern deducing

    Presenters:

    Candace Jones, Boston College

    Chad McPherson, University of Iowa

     

    Candace Jones will talk about her research that identified care and science as two logics guiding medical education by examining the occurrence and repeated relationships among words (Dunn and Jones, 2010). 


    Chad McPherson will discuss identifying distinct logics by examining key behaviors and texts in an ethnography of diverse professionals in drug court negotiations (McPherson and Sauder, 2013). 

     

    2) Pattern matching

    Presenters:

    Patricia Thornton, Duke University

    Elizabeth Goodrick, Florida Atlantic University

     

    Patricia Thornton will explain the use of "ideal types", and the steps she took to identify the elements in the X and Y axis of each logic in her previous study of changes in the publishing industry and the framework she and her colleagues developed (Thornton, 1999; Thornton, Ocasio, and Lounsbury, 2012).


    Beth Goodrick will discuss how she and Trish Reay analyzed text in archival documents to study changes in pharmacists' practices, comparing attributes of the ideal type of the professional, market, corporate and state logics with empirical data in terms of closeness to the 'ideal type' of each logic (Goodrick and Reay, 2011)

     

    3) Pattern Inducing

    Presenters:

    Trish Reay, University of Alberta

    Michael Smets, University of Oxford

     

    Trish Reay will explain how different types of archival documents were used to identify different logics-medical professionalism and business-that guided physicians and administrators in Alberta healthcare (Reay and Hinings, 2009). 


    Michael Smets will explain how by examining interview and ethnographic data to reveal practices, he and his co-authors compared two logics of legal service professionals and the emergence of a new hybrid logic (Smets, Morris, Greenwood. 2012).

     

    Following these three sessions, we will break into groups, led by these researchers, to discuss topics in more depth, and help participants to think through how the various approaches can inform their research. The variety of researchers involved will enable participants to find a scholar with a fit in interests and perspectives, and allow us to maintain a close enough ratio of participants to organizers to foster rich discussion. 

     

    Interested? Please join us on Friday, August 7th, 10:15 AM-12:45 PM at Vancouver Convention Center in Room 202. 

     

    If you have any questions, please contact the organizers:

    - Chang Lu, University of Alberta: clu5@ualberta.ca

    - Taehyun Lee, Boston College: taehyun.lee.3@bc.edu

     

    We look forward to seeing you there!


    Chang Lu

    Taehyun Lee