Interpretation of Multiple Institutional Logics on the Ground: Actors’ Position, their Agency and Situational Constraints in Professionalized Contexts

Organization Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 77-97

  Currie, Graeme ^a   Spyridonidis, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

healthcare; institutional complexity; institutional logics; profession; social position

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952684782     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840615604503     Document Type: Article

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