TY - CHAP
T1 - Zones of Meaning, Leitideen, Institutional Logics – and Practices
T2 - A Phenomenological Institutional Perspective on Shared Meaning Structures
AU - Meyer, Renate
AU - Jancsary, Dennis
AU - Höllerer, Markus A.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - We review and discuss theoretical approaches from both within and outside of institutional organization theory with regard to their specific insights on what we call “regionalized zones of meaning” – that is, clusters of social meaning that can be distinguished from one another, but at the same time interact and, in specific configurations, form distinct societies. We suggest that bringing meaning structures back into focus is important and may counter-balance the increasing preoccupation of institutional scholars with micro-foundations and the related emphasis on micro-level activities. We bring together central ideas from research on institutional logics with some foundational insights by Max Weber, Alfred Schütz, and German sociologists Rainer Lepsius and Karl-Siegbert Rehberg. In doing so, we also take a cautious look at “practices” by discussing their potential place and role in an institutional framework as well as by exploring generative conversations with proponents of practice theory. We wish to provide inspiration for institutional research interested in shared meaning structures, their relationships to one another, and how they translate into institutional orders.
AB - We review and discuss theoretical approaches from both within and outside of institutional organization theory with regard to their specific insights on what we call “regionalized zones of meaning” – that is, clusters of social meaning that can be distinguished from one another, but at the same time interact and, in specific configurations, form distinct societies. We suggest that bringing meaning structures back into focus is important and may counter-balance the increasing preoccupation of institutional scholars with micro-foundations and the related emphasis on micro-level activities. We bring together central ideas from research on institutional logics with some foundational insights by Max Weber, Alfred Schütz, and German sociologists Rainer Lepsius and Karl-Siegbert Rehberg. In doing so, we also take a cautious look at “practices” by discussing their potential place and role in an institutional framework as well as by exploring generative conversations with proponents of practice theory. We wish to provide inspiration for institutional research interested in shared meaning structures, their relationships to one another, and how they translate into institutional orders.
KW - Leitideen
KW - Institutional logics
KW - Practices
KW - Meaning structures
KW - Institutional orders
KW - Phenomenological institutional theory
KW - Leitideen
KW - Institutional logics
KW - Practices
KW - Meaning structures
KW - Institutional orders
KW - Phenomenological institutional theory
UR - https://sfx-45cbs.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/45cbs?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info:sid/sfxit.com:azlist&sfx.ignore_date_threshold=1&rft.object_id=960239021695&rft.object_portfolio_id=&svc.holdings=yes&svc.fulltext=yes
U2 - 10.1108/S0733-558X20200000070005
DO - 10.1108/S0733-558X20200000070005
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781800434134
T3 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
SP - 161
EP - 186
BT - On Practice and Institution
A2 - Lounsbury, Michael
A2 - Anderson, Deborah A.
A2 - Spee, Paul
PB - Emerald Group Publishing
CY - Bingley
ER -