Logic Perspective Research Articles

Institutional logics, social interactions and management of tensions in public-private partnership organizations.

We aim to understand the link between field-level institutional logics and practice-level social interactions and relationships between public and private actors and their influences on the responses and resolutions to the issues causing tensions. Adopting a multiple logics perspective with a focus on social interactions and relationships between public and private actors, we conducted a multiple case study in five city hospitals recently established under a public-private partnership model in the Turkish healthcare field. We found that the state and market logics that predominantly characterize the Turkish healthcare field were enacted in each of the five hospitals in different manners and constitute three different configurations as compatible, complementary and contradictory. The social interactions and relationships developed between the public and private actors occur based on these configurations, and they all together shape the responses and resolutions to the issues causing tensions. Since we did all analyses between the organizational actors at the partnership level, we did not consider possible differences arising from individual and positional roles in each partnership. It is therefore important to acknowledge that the interviews, which are central to the research results, might be influenced by the motivation and power dynamics of the participants in terms of their positions, roles and responsibilities. Thus, much work must be done to understand the management of tensions in public-private partnership organizations (PPPOs) influenced by institutional logics with a greater focus on individual, partnership, organizational and field-level interactions. Tensions arising between public and private actors in PPPOs can be understood better and managed more effectively when the enactment of institutional logics is considered together with their social interactions and relationships. The novelty of our study is that we advance the knowledge on the management of tensions in PPPOs by empirically showing the link between field-level institutional logics and practice-level social interactions and relationships and their influences on the responses and resolutions to the issues causing tensions. Our results indicate that tensions arising between public and private actors in PPPOs are primarily responded to by private actors mainly with avoidance, defiance or decoupling and subsequently resolved by their joint efforts through informal collaboration, formalization, formalized collaboration, enforcement or coercive pressure, depending on how the state and market logics are enacted within the hospitals and how social interactions and relationships between public and private side actors are formed accordingly.

CONNOTATIONS OF CONTEXTUAL SYNONYMS IN TEXTUAL COHERENCE

The article examines various approaches to the classification of connotation as a semantic component of linguistic units within the communicative domain. It also analyzes the classification of connotation from the perspectives of linguistics, stylistics, logic, and philosophy. Connotation is regarded as a significant means of semantic construction in discourse. From a typological standpoint, the study identifies expressive, emotional, evaluative, duration, and other semantic components within the semantic structure. At the level of connotation and modality expression in texts, the issue of contextual synonyms is also addressed. Synonyms are considered tools for text cohesion, and their usage is analyzed within specific textual frameworks. Additionally, the expression of semantic properties is discussed concerning the genre characteristics of the text and the communicative situation. The functional significance of synonyms as textual creation tools is explored from the perspective of semantic cohesion. Furthermore, synonyms are examined in terms of their role in ensuring content accuracy and the selection of linguistic expressiveness. In studying the linguistic and textual modalities of synonyms, it is deemed appropriate to analyze them from structural, semantic, and functional perspectives. Observations from these perspectives should incorporate necessary contextual inclusivity, account for linguistic, i.e. stylistic features, and clarify the pragmatic “value” of discourse. Such approaches not only refine the practical material of the research but also enhance the robustness of the evidential basis presented.

Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations

ABSTRACT We seek to advance the understanding of the relational challenges that divergent organisations face in innovation-driven research collaborations. Building on the institutional logic perspective, we identify university-industry research collaborations (UIRCs) as inter-organisational relationships (IORs) between organisations with diverging institutional logics. Applying the actor-partner interdependence model, we study 98 dyadic UIRCs in South Korea and find that universities and companies’ collaboration outcomes are positively related only to their own perceived behaviour and not to their partners’ behaviour. This study highlights the need for dyadic research design to understand perceptional gaps in such IORs. For the management of innovation-related UIRCs, our findings imply that while the actor’s perceived outcomes can be enhanced by converging the collaborators’ decision-making styles, the actor’s outcomes may not be improved or adversely effected by the partner’s behaviour unless the partner’s perspective is internalised in the mindset of the actor.

Ki Hajar Dewantara's Critique of the 2022 Sisdiknas Bill: Implications for Islamic Education in Indonesia

This research is a critical text study of the Philosophical Foundations contained in the Academic Text of the National Education System Draft Law (Sisdiknas Bill) which was socialized in August 2022. This philosophical study was carried out considering that the text of the Philosophical Foundations has fundamental weaknesses in it when viewed from a logical perspective. as well as Islamic spirituality, and Ki Hajar Dewantara's educational views as the founder of the educational philosophy in Indonesia with a religious and humanist character. This study aimed to explore Ki Hadjar’s thought as critics on Sisdiknas Bill and its implication of Islamic Education in Indonesia. The research questions are twofold. Firstly, what are the basic errors contained in the 'Philosophical Foundations' of the academic text of the 2022’s National Education System Bill. Secondly, what are the implications of the critics toward Islamic education in Indonesia. By using Bernadib's language philosophical method, the fundamental problems found in the 'Philosophical Foundations' text in the academic text of the 2022 National Education System Bill are uncovered. The analysis is then continued with the formulation of implications for Islamic education in Indonesia which is of concern to the majority of the Indonesia Muslim population. This research concludes there are crucial philosophical problems in 2022’s Sisdiknas Bill that could be in conflict with Islamic Education in Indonesia.

How breakthrough innovations develop in an organization with logic multiplicity: A multiple case study of a healthcare organization in China

Despite recognizing the strategic importance of breakthrough innovations (BIs) and changing organizational landscapes toward multifaceted values, the question of how BIs emerge and develop in organizations that exhibit multifaceted value logics remains largely unanswered. To address this gap, we investigate the underlying rationale (i.e. logic interplay) of the organizational mechanisms that contribute to the emergence and development of BI practices under logic multiplicity from the perspective of institutional logic. By conducting in-depth case studies of three breakthrough innovation projects in the context of a prominent Chinese healthcare organization that is characterized by the presence of multiple logics, we identify a process model for BI development under logic multiplicity. The model contains three sequential mechanisms associated with logic interplay—logic-bridging, logic-harmonizing, and logic-tilting—that subsequently contribute to specific BI practices across different stages of the BI development process. Our process model illustrates how organizations with multiple logics facilitate the evolution of BIs, emphasizes the interplay and coevolution of diverse logics and highlights the agency of organizational actors in this context.

The ineffability of God – a logical approach

This paper takes a closer look at the phenomenon of the ineffability of God from a purely logical perspective. In doing so, it pursues two main objectives. First, as to this day many philosophers speak – without hesitation – of the ‘paradox’ of ineffability closely associated with Liar-like sentences, it clarifies the situation by showing that ineffability is by no means paradoxical in the strict logical sense. Secondly, it uses a new information-theoretic approach in order to clearly distinguish between what is called ‘substantial’ and ‘non-substantial’ predicates, a distinction which finally allows for a rendering of the dogma of ineffability which does not entail contradiction.

A Medieval Controversy about Entailments between Categorical and ‘Continuing’ Propositions

The early thirteenth century tract Ars Meliduna deals with the issue whether categorical propositions entail, or are entailed by, ‘continuing’ propositions, i.e. by implications. From the perspective of modern logic, with implication interpreted as a material, truth-functional connective, the first question has to be answered in the affirmative because, e.g. β entails (α ⊃ β). But conversely (α ⊃ β) ‘normally’ doesn’t entail the truth (or the falsity) of any of the components α, β; hence the second question should be answered in the negative. These results cannot, however, be directly transferred to medieval logic because implication was there usually interpreted as a strict implication. Yet, within the framework of modal logic, one obtains parallel results. In particular, whenever β is necessary, then (α → β) must be true. Furthermore, if (α → β) is itself necessary, then it is entailed by α. Thus, in particular, ‘Socrates is a man’ entails the analytically true implication ‘If Socrates is a man, Socrates is an animal’, and the same premiss also entails the tautological consequent ‘If Socrates is white, Socrates is white’.

The power of play and community – managing exercise at work by combining institutional logics

PurposePlay and exercise at the workplace have been promoted as ways to counter the development of lacking physical activity and improve workplace health. Through a reappraisal of the critical literature on workplace exercise, the analysis seeks to answer two questions: How do managers perceive employee health in the intersection between individual responsibility and collective community? How can the performative potentials of workplace exercise be critically understood?Design/methodology/approachWe use an institutional approach along with critical theories on management in which we argue that specific logics guide certain practices, values and beliefs within organizations. This qualitative study relies on insights from three diverse Danish workplaces that have implemented exercise during workhours.FindingsAdopting exercise and play as elements inspired by community sports becomes a powerful managerial technique. Managers combine practices such as play and voluntarism with the logics of profession and corporation. This gives rise to practices known from community sport that can lead to micro-emancipations during work as well as to subtle forms of managerial power by hiding explicit references to employee health.Originality/valueBy combining an institutional logics perspective with critical views, the study contributes to the growing body of research on workplace exercise by pointing to the potentials and constraints of adopting a community logic into practices. The study adds nuances to the view on workplace exercise in the critical management literature as well as illustrating the conditions necessary to make exercise and health promotion reconcilable with existing managerial practices.

Institutional Complexity and Social Innovation: The Case of Chinese Social Enterprises

Abstract Social enterprises (SEs) have emerged throughout the world to address societal challenges through market-based activities and innovation. Research has focused on how SEs manage the tensions arising from the combination of social-welfare and market logics, neglecting the institutional complexity that arises in authoritarian regimes where the state plays a dominant role. Based on the institutional logics perspective and interview data of 42 SE leaders in China, we find that key tensions arise from the state and social-welfare logics and that state logic (re)configures the social–market relationships to be compatible. Chinese SEs employed depoliticization and localization to adapt to this unique form of institutional complexity in their social innovation efforts. This study advances research on SEs, institutional complexity, and hybrid organizing.

Navigating Shifts in Europe-China Higher Education Cooperation: An Institutional Logics Perspective

Understanding the changing dynamics of Europe-China cooperation is essential, particularly against the backdrop of recent geopolitical shifts that have added layers of complexity to this relationship. This shifts underscore the need for a nuanced analysis of the drivers of such international collaboration, which represents a gap in both theoretical and empirical research. Our study explores the complex nature of this cooperation from the perspective of institutional logics, focusing on how societal changes have influenced the interaction of scientific, economic, and political logics underlying the cooperation from 1975 to the present. Through analysing relevant literature and policy documents, our findings uncover how varying logics' compatibilities between and within the two regions have influenced the course of Europe-China higher education collaboration. In doing so, this paper not only addresses a gap in the literature on the intricate factors shaping Europe-China academic relations but also establishes a theoretical foundation for future research on international higher education cooperation in a rapidly evolving global context.

Inward internationalization and cross border acquisitions by emerging economy multinational enterprises: The moderating role of family and institutional ownership

Mergers and acquisitions are a complex and persistent global phenomenon. Theoretical cross-fertilization enhances our understanding of their behavior, especially in different contexts. We use organizational learning theory and institutional logic perspective to hypothesize the direct effect of inward internationalization, the negative moderating effect of family ownership and domestic institutional ownership, and the positive moderating effect of foreign institutional ownership on cross-border acquisitions (CBAs) by emerging economy multinational enterprises (MNEs). Based on data from 199 Indian MNEs over nine years consisting of an unbalanced panel with 1619 observations, our findings supported all the hypotheses except the moderating effects of domestic institutional ownership. Our findings explain that the impact of learning from inward internationalization on CBAs is not similar for all firms; rather, it depends upon ownership groups because of their institutional logic. We have proposed socioemotional wealth logic for family ownership, cautious fosterer logic for domestic institutional ownership, and yield maximizer logic for foreign institutional ownership. Our findings enhance our understanding of firms’ CBA behavior by utilizing theoretical cross-fertilization and examining CBAs in an emerging economy context.

Organizational strategic stance and perceived public service performance: a public service logic perspective

ABSTRACT This study explores how public service organizations’ (PSOs) strategic stances impact citizens’ perceived service performance from a public service logic (PSL) perspective. Existing research often focuses on organizational-level performance, overlooking individual citizens’ subjective judgements. By using citizens’ perceived service quality and overall satisfaction as proxies for value-in-use and value-in-context derived from public services, this study provides new insights on how PSOs’ strategies influence value creation. Utilizing multilevel analysis on nested datasets from two surveys in China, this research offers empirical evidence for the strategic influence on individual value creation.

Community Value Co-Creation as a Catalyst for Village Tourism Sustainability: A New Paradigm

The purpose of this study is to propose a new conceptual model for tourism marketing management science, focusing on the perspective of the head of the tourist village manager to achieve village tourism sustainability. This study employs a quantitative approach and includes data from 140 respondents. The data pertains to the green environment mindset, local wisdom, community co-creation, and sustainable tourist villages. A quantitative research method was utilized in this study, with the head of the tourist village manager representing Indonesia. Data collected from 140 tourist village managers were analyzed using Smart PLS-4. This study's main findings emerged from the mediation hypothesis test results. Increasing community value co-creation, supported by the green environment mindset and local wisdom, contributed to sustainable tourist villages. This study adopts the perspective of service-dominant logic.

Product innovation capability and distinctive value positioning drivers for marketing performance: a service-dominant logic perspective

Purpose This paper aims to develop a conceptual model showing how the concept of distinctive value positioning (DVP) could be a strategic solution for improving marketing performance in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach A survey was conducted among owners and managers of creative SMEs using a structured questionnaire to test the proposed model. Additionally, the sample size included 200 respondents who were analyzed using structural equation modeling with the aid of AMOS 23. Findings This research used serial mediation to investigate the mediating effect of two concepts in the strategic path to enhance DVP. Channel partner power was incorporated to mediate the relationship between product innovation capability and marketing performance. Research limitations/implications Service-dominant logic perspective was enriched with diversity through various analyses. This research further contributed to the field of knowledge by developing a new variable known as DVP. However, it did not extensively explore the various cultural elements in Indonesia that could affect the unique values attached to creative industry products. Originality/value DVP was reported as a new concept and showed a significant effect on marketing performance in SMEs.

Research Data Management in German Academia from a Multiple Logic Perspective

The requirements for research data management (RDM) have increased. Due to academia’s neoliberalization, however, researchers already face a high workload within a hypercompetitive environment. The demand to integrate RDM as an additional task into academics’ day-today actions seems to be quixotic. To deepen our understanding of early career researchers’ (ECRs) daily work arbitrage, we need to know more about their behavior, actions, and decisions in relation to RDM. Drawing on a multiple institutional logics perspective at the micro-level, we conducted 40 semistructured interviews at German higher education institutions (HEIs) to investigate how ECRs respond to institutional logics in the context of RDM. Our findings revealed three profiles – the conformist, the waverer, and the resister – that make use of different response strategies to the state, market, professional, and community logic. We contribute to institutional logic research at the micro-level and, in addition, broaden prior research on HEIs and RDM by taking neoliberal academia into account.

FOBICS: Assessing project security level through a metrics framework that evaluates DevSecOps performance

Context:In today’s software development landscape, the DevSecOps approach has gained traction due to its focus on the software development process and bolstering security measures in projects, a task in light of the ever-evolving cybersecurity threats. Objective:This study aims to address the lack of metrics for quantitatively assessing its efficacy from both security and business logic perspectives. Methods:To tackle this issue, the research introduces the Framework of Business Index Concerning Security (FOBICS), a set of metrics designed to enable transparent evaluations of project security. FOBICS considers various perspectives relevant to DevSecOps practices. It includes factors such as project duration and financial outcomes, making it appealing for implementation in business settings. Results:The effectiveness of FOBICS is validated theoretically and empirically via its application in two real-world projects: the results from these implementations show a correlation between FOBICS metrics and the security strategies employed as the development methodologies adopted by diverse teams throughout the projects. Conclusion:Hence, FOBICS emerges as a tool for assessing and continuously monitoring project security, offering insights into areas of strength and areas that may require enhancement. FOBICS is shown to be effective in assessing the level of DevSecOps implementation. The ease of calculating FOBICS metrics makes them easily interpretable and continuously verifiable. Moreover, FOBICS summarizes most of the other quantitative and qualitative metrics in the literature.

Institutional logics and organizational green transformation: Evidence from the agricultural industry in emerging economies

While the agricultural green transformation has garnered significant attention on the political stage as a crucial strategy for climate change mitigation and sustainable development, there remains a notable gap in our understanding of the prevailing logics that shape organizational decisions on this change in emerging economies. Drawing on the institutional logics perspective, this study explores the impact of state logic (manifested through green credit policy) and market logic (manifested through analyst attention) on agriculture-related firms' (ARFs') green transformation, as well as the moderating effects of organizational transparency and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) level. Using longitudinal data on 201 publicly listed ARFs in China from 2008 to 2020, we find that both state and market logics exert unique effects on facilitating the green transformation of ARFs. More notably, a complementarity between the two logics in offering value for ARFs’ green transformation is revealed. This complementary effect becomes more pronounced for organizations with a higher level of transparency or a superior ESG profile. Our study contributes to the neo-institutional perspective of organizational green transformation, a better understanding of conflicting institutional logics in emerging economies, and research on agricultural sustainability.

Enhancing strategic public procurement: a public service logic perspective

ABSTRACT This paper introduces a special issue focused on strategic public procurement from a public management perspective. It articulates the goals, key dimensions, and challenges inherent in strategic public procurement while contextualizing the articles featured in this issue. To advance the field and strengthen the integration of public procurement and public management literature, we propose adopting the Public Service Logic (PSL) framework. PSL provides a comprehensive approach to reframe public procurement, shifting it from a focus on legal compliance and cost-efficiency to achieving broader strategic policy objectives, including fostering innovation, environmental sustainability, security, and social inclusion.

Why Target Communities Remain Subjects Rather than Partners of Development Agencies in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects in Latin America

AbstractDespite repeated calls for locally anchored Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs), the decision-making authority of targeted Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) remains limited. This paper is grounded on an Institutional Logics perspective to examine the role of major development agencies—the World Bank (WB), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the German Development Bank (KfW)—in perpetuating this challenge. Interviews with project managers in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region reveal complex internal hierarchies, risk-focus, high performance pressure, a “better than nothing” rationale, and a hands-off approach to community participation. We argue that these tendencies are rooted in organisational structure and individual mentalities that constitute a project management logic, which in turn raises concerns about the ability and willingness of development agencies to foster local project ownership of ICDPs. The paper calls for the international donor community to reflect on and transform such management logic, and to allocate more substantial decision-making power and resources to local representatives.

Perceptions of e-lending in Scandinavian libraries: tension and harmony between institutional logics

ABSTRACT This study examines e-lending dynamics in Scandinavian public libraries, by exploring the relationship between libraries and publishing houses. We ask how representatives of both fields perceive the public library’s role. Public libraries and publishers have traditionally served different roles in the book sphere: the library as a key cultural policy institution providing access to information and culture, and the publishers as involved in the production of books, operating on commercial premises. This relationship is affected by the change from ownership to licensing of digital book collections, which occurs along with changes on the national book markets. As a theoretical and analytical tool, the study uses the institutional logics perspective to explore the relations between different perceptions. We argue that this relationship can be illuminated through the dynamics of public service logic, market logic and digital logic. The study is empirically based on 26 in-depth interviews interviews with representatives of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish major libraries and trade publishers. Findings indicate that the relationship is nuanced and multifaceted, more than if it relied on a simple opposition between the public and the market. Both libraries and publishers share a common understanding of public service and market logics; however, they differ in perceptions of library’s role which is amplified by digital logic. The study also indicates that e-lending dynamics are influenced by cultural policies but with different outcomes in the three countries.