This paper is located within the research problematic of multiple logics with reference to
professional service firms (PSFs), and in particular audit firms. Within this multi-logic …

Abstract The Big Four accounting firms play a crucial role in the social construction of
professional identity. This study focuses on their response to the diversity agenda. We …

This article examines how individual accountants subjectively interpret competing logics of
professionalism as they transform from practicing accountants to managerial roles and as …

Hybrid organizations harbor different and often conflicting institutional logics, thus facing the
challenge of sustaining their hybridity. Crucial to overcoming this challenge is the …

The increasing use of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) may be harmful
to professions and occupations. Professional role identity can be damaged as AI takes the …

We investigate how established professionals manage their identities in the face of identity
threats from a contested shift in the professional logic that characterizes their field. To do so …

In this paper we look at how managers perceive and manage meetings between different
institutional logics in three types of hybrid organisations; a savings bank, a municipality and …

We investigated how professional role identity change can be accomplished in highly
institutionalized contexts characterized by resiliency. We show that the collective …

Recent literature on hybridity has provided useful insights into how professionals have
responded to changing institutional logics. Our focus is on how shifting logics have shaped …

Drawing on the professions and institutional literature, we develop theory about how
professional work can reflect multiple institutional logics by analyzing changes in the work of …