Dominant Logic Research Articles

Beyond the doom: Sustainable water management practices of small-scale mining operations

Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) is often implicated as a source of pollution to water systems. In this paper, we explore the water management systems of a formalised small-scale mining operator in Ghana to explicate how its operational activities and organising routines contribute to sustainable water management in practice. Emphasizing how sustainable management of water bodies play out in organising, our study highlights the underpinning mechanisms shaping the shift to environmentally sustainable operations. By unpacking the complex practices of water management in ASM operations, the study extends understanding of how sustainability driven practices emerge and comes to be identified and labelled in the context of an industry historically tagged as an ‘enemy of the environment’, and the consequences that follow. Thus, contrary to the dominant logic of stigmatizing ASM as water polluting champions, our study suggests that ASM operators could be caretakers of water bodies and the environment. We conclude by highlighting implications for policy on sustainable water management.

Preparations and Challenges Upon the Implementation of PSAK 55: A Case Study of Rural Banks

Purpose: This study aims to analyze the preparations and challenges of PSAK 55 implementation regarding Institutional Logics Theory and Diffusion Theory of Innovation that underlined the ac- tor’s decision to implement PSAK 55 in rural banks.Method: This study uses descriptive qualitative methods through questionnaires and interviews analyzed with content, thematic, and constant comparative analysis. study uses descriptive qualita- tive methods through questionnaires and interviews analyzed with content, thematic, and constant comparative analysis.Finding: This study reveals the factors that influence the actors’ decisions in this implementation, such as the existence of dominant logic in which rural banks must comply with regulations, but ac- tors are concerned more about the effectiveness of PSAK 55. Moreover, this study found the prepa- rations to implement PSAK 55, such as updating internal regulations and systems, human resources, socialization and training. Whereas, the expected challenges are the limitations in analyzing objec- tive evidence of impairment, calculating the fair value of collateral and value of future cashflow.Novelty: This study differs from prior studies because it focused more on discussing the prepara- tions and challenges using Institutional Logic Theory, while the previous discussed only the imple- mentation of PSAK 55 in commercial banks and actors’ behavior upon the credit restructuring. The implication of this research is to provide solutions to rural banks, so there would be no decoupling practice.

When States Build Markets: Policy support as a double-edged sword in the UK social investment market

Markets are the outcomes of political and institutional struggles where policy support plays a major role, but research to date falls short in explaining how the breadth of available interventions can have contradictory effects on the process of market formation. This article explores the consequences of policy support in the context of the nascent social investment market in the United Kingdom, between 2000 and 2015, when the government was a key actor in building the market infrastructure. I track the effects of a portfolio of policy interventions, including new regulation, direct investment and convening efforts. I show that, while policy support stimulated the market by driving supply and intermediation, it also led to an increase in contestation from the social sector. I link those intended and unintended consequences to the top-down features of the policy support (supporting the dominant logic, reinforcing hierarchical relations and optimistic rhetoric), hence showing when and how policy support can become a double-edged sword. The article contributes to the literature on policy support in market formation by showing the mechanisms through which top-down policy interventions can have important unintended consequences, especially when shaping the boundaries and features of markets that emerge at the intersection of financial and social sectors.

Review: Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology, by Adam Nocek

Review: <i>Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology</i>, by Adam Nocek

Centrality and power. The struggle over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet and the global digital order

AbstractIn recent years, various governments have been trying to subordinate the Internet to the system of the Westphalian state order. This article seeks to add a new layer to the analysis of this conflict over state sovereignty and the global digital order. It draws on network theory as an alternative analytical lens to study the reconfiguration of power relations that define the Internet as a technical, social and economic network, and its governance. We review key conflicts and developments that shaped the Internet's history, from the Internet exceptionalists' visions in the 1990s to states' recent pursuits of digital sovereignty and trace how states, as well as private companies, seek to fundamentally reconfigure the dominant logic of the Internet and its sub‐networks to expand and institutionalise their power position. We thus highlight a deeper layer of conflict: the current struggles over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet are not only influenced by the conflict between liberal and authoritarian visions of the Internet; they are also the result of continuous tensions between processes of centralisation and decentralisation of the Internet's technical foundations and its governance. As an effect of these dynamics, we currently witness a pluralisation of power while, at the same time, new points of centralised control emerge.

Luxury brand value co-creation with online brand communities in the service encounter

A constant challenge for luxury brands is identifying ways to add value to their offering, compensating for the high price charged. Previous research has highlighted that superior value is added when customers and brands collaborate by co-creating and introducing unique experiences to the offering. However, there is limited research on how brands and their customers co-create value in an online context. Online brand community engagement is central to this process. Drawing upon the service dominant logic and the luxury customer value framework, we conduct fifteen in-depth interviews with managers and fifty with customers of a luxury hotel brand, followed by a netnography of its online community. Τhis results in the development of a typology that supports online value co-creation. The results show that the pleasurable/experiential content provides the highest engagement. The study reinforces the benefit of using the experiential approach to build a successful content strategy within online luxury communities.

Partnering for a Promise: Institutional Logics and a Community College District’s Response to a Promise Program Partnership

ABSTRACT The college promise – or free college – movement is rapidly expanding throughout the United States; however, there is much to learn about community colleges’ organizational responses to promise programs and corresponding partnerships with nonprofit organizations that are involved in some programs. Using institutional logics to frame this qualitative case study, I explored one community college district’s relationship with a nonprofit promise program partner, and revealed the ways in which this community college district preserved and blended their dominant logics with that of their nonprofit partner. The findings from this study shed light on community college professionals’ perceptions of promise programs, their organization’s response, and the college’s relationship with their nonprofit partner. Findings revealed that individual community college actors used dominant community college logic to make meaning of their partnership and maintain their commitment to the community college mission despite blending logics through incorporation of practices associated with dominant nonprofit logics. These findings have implications for the roles of community colleges and nonprofit partners in the implementation of college promise programs, as well as considerations for community college leaders.

Examining covert and explicit mechanisms of education inequity to foster just public education and authentic democracies

In this editorial essay, the author pinpoints key insights, implications, and cross cutting themes that emerged from this special issue. These insights shed light on the interlocking connection between inequitable public education systems and vulnerable democracies, both of which fail to uphold their charge to be inclusive and just. Special attention is given to the harm of race-avoidant, classist, and/or public-aversive discourse and policies, the coopting of equity-oriented agendas for private interests, political underrepresentation, and the multifaceted reach of global neoliberalism. All of these factors exacerbate racial and socioeconomic disparities in education and society. The author emphasizes how these and other dynamics amount to the provision of educational equity being constrained by dominant logics of fear, scarcity, and competition; the racialization and privatization of public education access; and ultimately, the operation of elitist versus truly representative democracies. She builds upon the volume’s critical policy studies to stress the urgency of countering both covert and explicitly biased educational policy mechanisms in order to improve public education and construct more authentic democratic societies.

Occupied labour: dispossession through incorporation among Palestinian workers in Israel

ABSTRACT Promoting the employment of indigenous peoples has been a key strategy of economic development in settler colonial states. Israel’s framing of occupied Palestinian labour in its economy has mirrored this approach, with an implicit claim that it contributes prosperity to the Palestinians. What this false promise hides is how employment and the economic incorporation of indigenous people can become a source of ongoing dispossession in and of itself: a kind of dispossession that is driven by workers’ economic inclusion rather than being remedied through it. Based on ethnographic research among Palestinians from the occupied West Bank who work in Israel, this article explores the multiple dispossessions that result from such labour. The article explains how a neoliberal settler economy utilizes a meritocratic regime of indigenous employment to execute a colonial logic of domination. As access to jobs in the settler economy is made conditional on workers’ political docility and their continued absence from communal life, the labour regime aims to turn Palestinian livelihood and Palestinian nationhood into mutually exclusive aspirations: it strives to undermine the Palestinians’ capacity for social reproduction and anticolonial resistance.

Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth

The European Union (EU) is adhering to decarbonization of its economy to tackle what is narrowly framed as ‘environmental issues’ of our socioecological and civilizational crises—including, but not limited to, climate change and biodiversity loss. A shift to bio-based economy (bioeconomy) is an important component of this effort. This paper applies theoretical ideas from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth, placed in the wider context of transformations, to analyse the EU bioeconomy policy within the global context, and to draw lessons and recommendations for just transformations in the EU bioeconomy policy. I identify five dominant logics and approaches in the EU bioeconomy that act as barriers for just transformations and propose alternative ones that can support such transformations. Barriers and alternatives include (1) framing ‘nature’ as a resource and service provider for humans, who are seen as separate from nature, and the need to abandon human–nature duality; (2) dominance of economic green growth and technoscientific policy solutions, and the need to place planetary justice at the centre of tackling socioecological crises; (3) a limited approach to justice, and the need to act upon climate and epistemic justice, including self-determination and self-governing authority; (4) the EU’s ambition for global leadership and competitiveness in global bioeconomic markets and governance, and the need to redefine global governance towards partnerships based on the principles of solidarity, mutual respect, reconciliation and redistribution of power and wealth; (5) hegemonic politico-economic structures and actor coalitions in charge of the EU bioeconomy, and the need for decentralized bottom-up leadership coalitions that promote direct democracy, local autonomy and sovereignty beyond state. I conclude with reflections on the politics of change and risks of co-optation, with a hope to inspire decolonial and just socioecological transformations in and beyond bioeconomy.

Utopia as method: a response to education in crisis?

ABSTRACT Claims of crisis in education are not new though their orientation has changed over time. This paper is concerned with the contemporary discourse surrounding an apparent global learning crisis, examining the dominant logics through which education and its concomitant crises are imagined and operationalized. In this conceptual essay, we take “crisis” as representing both challenges faced by society and as an opportunity to interrupt the current order. We suggest that a key crisis facing education currently is not a learning crisis, but the dominant evidence-based approach and “what works” logic. In response, we argue for utilizing Levitas’ utopia as method as a way for educational researchers and practitioners to engage in imagining alternative futures. The method involves excavation of conditions that have resulted in the current moment, critical questioning of being for both humans and the institutions we construct, and imagining alternative ways of being and doing education. We illustrate briefly how the method can be used in applying it to an analysis of the OECD’s Global Competency Framework. This method is not presented as a solution, but as a crisis response that is imaginative and attempts to create possibilities and spaces of hope.

Place production, urban tourism geographies and experiences of Muße

Urban tourism, as a social, cultural, and economic field, has been strongly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a reverse effect of this crisis, however, there is a recent shift away from the dominant logics of performance and efficiency towards mindfulness, serenity, and similar concepts that shape the everyday life of an increasing number of people. All these terms are related to the semantic field of Muße, a word derived from the German language, which is defined as the experience of moments of freedom, indulgence, placidity, and recreation. Following the idea that social phenomena are reflected and reproduced in tourism, the objective is to explore how and where tourists experience Muße in urban tourism. A focus on Muße first enables a better understanding of tourists’ travel behaviour, expectations, and needs. In the same vein, it is possible to examine tourism place-making since the need for Muße produces and transforms individual tourists’ worlds of experiences. Although place-making practices and experiences have been widely studied, their relationship to Muße remains to be explored in urban and tourism research. With the aim to study practices and places of Muße in urban tourism, the presented qualitative content analysis draws upon 84 interviews conducted with tourists in Barcelona, Florence, and Paris in 2019. Findings show that the practice of sitting is relevant for experiences of Muße with a particular impact on place-making. Six categories are suggested to illustrate how Muße can be effective while tourists are sitting. This includes a detailed discussion of the spatial dimensions of Muße. In conclusion, places of Muße are highly individual, intangible, and complex. Insights into the characteristics of Muße and engagement with this new concept in international tourism research can be used as resources to study tourist place-making and support the planning for sustainable tourism development.

Re-Reading Roald Dahl From An Ecological Perspective

Concerning the study of children’s literature, contemporary ecocritical research proposes to analyze how ecological narratives diverge from the logic of alienation, hierarchy and domination and move towards inspiring community and interdependence. Roald Dahl’s (1916-1990) respect and deep knowledge of nature and animals are rendered in most of his children’s novels, depicting underdogs working together to defeat oppression and abuse of power. Given that these stories have long been part of popular culture, as well as the school curricula, this paper studies them from an ecological perspective arguing that, through similar re-readings, these narratives could inspire environmental consciousness and agency in young readers.

Exploring factory digital production support system through the lens of Service Dominant logic

This paper attempts to understand innovation in the production environment of three different digital systems that support the manufacturing processes of industrial firms. Three cases were characterized through the lens of Service Dominant logic to assess the “smartness” of the services that the system provides. It achieves this using the dimensions ‘service ecosystem’, ‘service platform’ and ‘value cocreation’. The assumption used is that production or assembly may be viewed as a set of processes and hence in effect, a service. Furthermore, the digital system provided institutional arrangements to support value cocreation. It was found that the digital systems provide services to the shop floor and management over different time frames. What was also identified from the analysis was that by using the three dimensions, it was possible to understand the system’s limitations in terms of supporting the value cocreation processes.

The evolution of micro-macro link in service dominant logic from service ecosystem perspective:

The evolution of micro-macro link in service dominant logic from service ecosystem perspective:

Bifurcating the dynamic dominant logic: technical and evolutionary patterns of action

PurposeThis study proposed the integrative model of dynamic dominant logic (DL) with exploitation (EP) and exploration (ER) as a pattern of actions in endeavoring firm performance (FP). This study also intended to explain the multiple patterns of DL in creating technical and evolutionary fitness simultaneously.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a cross-sectional quantitative analysis of the Indonesian commercial banking population facing digital transformation and was analyzed using covariance-based structural equation modeling through parceling.FindingsThe model confirmed that DL positively affects EP and ER. It also revealed that DL indirectly impacts FP through EP, indicating changes in the traditional banking business through the strong acceptance of “new realities” in adapting to the rapid growth of technology. Hence, this study discovered that during the recent banking digital transformation, the beneficial inertia of the technical pattern of action might lose effectiveness in creating superior performance.Practical implicationsDL is vital in locking short-term performance while maintaining long-term performance opportunities through EP and ER to promote digital transformation. Accordingly, it induced banks to adopt new technology for value creation and fortifying competitive advantage.Originality/valueThis study provided a theory about how DL links the firm's decision-making process by promoting multiple patterns of action in achieving technical and evolutionary fitness. It highlighted the DL as a resource conceptualization that promotes resource development through EP and ER as microfoundation of dynamic capabilities during the tension of institutionalization and digital transformation.

High-stakes accountability policies and local adaptation: exploring how school principals respond to multiple policy demands

ABSTRACT Rationalising school activities through principles of standards, testing and accountability has taken a strong hold and continues to be the dominant logic for educational reform in England. This article examines the ways in which three principals of English academies understand and respond to accountability policies as required by their Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) and external demands. A sensemaking perspective is adopted to explore how school principals come to interpret, negotiate and adapt messages and pressures about accountability policies in their efforts to respond to their local contexts. Based on an analysis of data from three academies, this article highlights the active role of school leaders in the enactment processes of policies related to curriculum and pedagogy, data monitoring, resource allocation and performance management. Findings reveal the variations in the degree of autonomy the participating leaders enjoyed in some of these areas, in which they appeared to interpret and adjust policies as needed to fit their schools and communities. Insights from individual leaders’ sensemaking provide an important contribution to research on how academies respond to high-stakes accountability policies in that the meanings leaders make determine the actions and decisions they take on instructional priorities.

Decolonizing healing: weaving the curandera path

ABSTRACT This paper considers how to heal the fragmentation imposed by dominant logics. It questions whether the curandera can be a path for healing the pain caused by such fragmentation. The argument is that this fragmentation needs to be unpacked to become visible for any healing to take place. This article brings together the ideas on modernity/coloniality and feminist theorizing mostly by those who have chosen the category of woman of colour to build coalition (Lugones [2015]. A decolonial revisiting of gender) and those feminisms that have engaged with healing and/or spirituality and that are at the margins of dominant epistemologies. These feminisms allow unmuting the curandera path.

‘Bad parents’, deportable subjects: borders and deportability in the everyday lives of undocumented families in Belgium

ABSTRACT While research has addressed the multiplication of borders inside and across the nation-state and the threat of deportation in the lives of undocumented migrants, little analysis has been dedicated to the particularities of families’ experiences. Based on participatory ethnographic research, this article examines how undocumented families experience and contest exclusionary bordering practices that interfere in the privacy of their family lives in Belgium. I argue that, in order to naturalise and legitimize these families’ ‘deportability’, the state mobilises normative logics about parenthood and childhood that construct undocumented parents as ‘bad parents’, while designating their children as ‘innocent’ and ‘at risk’. Going against these dominant logics, the undocumented parents at the heart of this ethnography contest and reshape the terms upon which the state constructs their ‘deportability’ by reconfirming their role as ‘good’ parents and, instead, problematise repressive migration policies that push them into marginality and misappropriate the notion of ‘the best interests of the child’. In the conclusion, I demonstrate how these insights open new avenues for understanding more broadly the dynamics between the family and contemporary migration regimes.

Understanding the omnichannel customer journey: The effect of online and offline channel interactivity on consumer value co-creation behavior

Building on the service dominant logic, this study explores the effect of online and offline channel interactivity on consumers’ value co-creation behavior (VCB), the mediating effect of brand involvement, and the moderating effect of cross-channel consistency (CCC). We surveyed 387 customers who engage in omnichannel shopping. The relationship between online and offline channel interactivity and VCB was positive and partially mediated by brand involvement. The interaction effect of online channel interactivity (ONI) and offline channel interactivity (OFI) had a negative effect on brand involvement when CCC was low but a non-significant positive effect when CCC was high. These findings enrich the theoretical understanding of value co-creation and provide insights into omnichannel management.