1 Translating Diversity Into Carco: an Analysis of Organizational Actors’ Institutional Bricolage
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Paper under review, please do not quote without authors ’ consent. This study investigates the institutional work of translation from an agent-centered perspective. Based on qualitative data collected in an automobile company, we analyze how nine different types of organizational actors, acting as institutional ‘bricoleurs’, translate the institution of diversity in distinct ways. We show that their heterogeneous translations derive from the partially different logics they are exposed to from their different organizational positions and the need to construct diversity in ways that are functional to their practical goals. The study generates new insights into agents ’ micro-work of translation and institutional incorporation and advances new directions for diversity research. 2 Whereas early neo-institutional literature aimed at explaining isomorphic organizational behavior within fields, more recently, attention has shifted to explaining heterogeneous organizational responses to institutional pressures. Scholars have started to highlight the fragmented nature of fields deriving from the coexistence of multiple, even conflicting institutional logics − or the “cultural beliefs and rules that structure cognition and decision making in a field ” (Lounsbury, 2007: 289) − and organizations ’ different
Authors: Patrizia Zanoni, Maddy Janssens
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2794765475