This review assembles two highly referenced streams of research in organization and
management studies over the past decade: institutional logics and categories. We present …

The flexible pattern matching approach has witnessed increasing popularity. By combining
deduction with induction in logic, flexible pattern matching is well suited for exploration and …

Defining institutions as taken-for-granted systems of roles and interactions, this paper
presents a novel theoretical integration of hereto disparate micro and macro approaches to …

Recent developments around the sharing economy bring to the fore questions of
governability and broader societal benefit—and subsequently the need to explore effective …

We argue that in order to overcome the reductionism and essentialism in institutional theory
there is a need to acknowledge that institutions and social actors are co‐constitutive and co …

The formation of the first Islamic bank in Germany in 2015 came with considerable tensions
at the interface of the religious logic, on the one hand, and the state logic, on the other. With …

Qualitative research can provide rich insights that help understand firms' actual and future
changes, social contexts, and technology development. In this way, qualitative methods …

Previous work on institutional complexity has discussed two solutions that organizations
internally deploy when externally engaging with multiple institutional logics: blended …

The relationship between institutional logics and organizational legitimacy remains largely
unaddressed in organizational theory and management research. We explore how …

The theoretical puzzle of how organizations deal with contradicting logics has been
extensively investigated during the past two decades. This stream of research has focused …