While institutional logics theory has increasingly been applied in higher education research,
especially in the past five years, agreement is lacking on how to approach institutional logics …

In the last decade we have witnessed an almost explosive rise in the number of articles in
international journals referring to institutional logics, and conference seminars and …

The goal of this chapter is to review the potential of institutional logics theory for the study of
higher education. After providing a concise introduction to institutional logics, the chapter …

Theoretical literature on institutions emphasizes the importance of logics–shared
rationalizations–in determining many aspects of organizations. In this literature, universities …

The institutional logics approach is a powerful lens with which to examine and understand
contexts in which norms and conceptions are multiple, unclear or in flux. While logics at the …

The study of institutional logics has become, in the more than twenty years since Friedland
and Alford's (1991) seminal article, one of the key theoretical perspectives in organizational …

While the ascendancy of market behaviours in public research universities is well
documented, the extent to which universities have transformed themselves into industry-like …

The phrase,'institutional logic'has become somewhat of a buzz-word. Buzz words are over
used; as a result their meanings often get distorted and overextended and they burn-out of …

There is an ever-increasing volume of studies investigating institutional logics, and yet
qualitative methods for studying this phenomenon are not clear. In this essay, we examine …

Institutional theory has arguably become a popular and powerful explanatory tool for
studying various organisational issues, including those in the context of higher education …