Optimizing Multiple Institutional Logics within the Collective Creative Process

Abstract

Institutional logics form the foundational building blocks for understanding organizational life and work. While earlier conceptions portrayed institutional logics as static and monolithic, scholars have more recently embraced an action perspective that views logics as fluid and dynamic. With this lens, organizations, fields and professions are seen as rife with a plurality of logics that are continuously contested and negotiated. Our research sheds light on how a multiplicity of logics are navigated over time beyond the context of a single organization or profession, and how micro-level action in the context of the collective creative process may inform, and is informed by, the larger field or industry context