An institutional logics perspective. Like entrepreneurs in other sectors of our modern economy, many universities are in a rush to fill a relatively new and expanding market. The earliest precursor to institutional logics is Weber’s idea of the Protestant ethic—the moral view that individuals should strive to achieve success through hard work and thrift, and that success is an indicator of divine grace—which he argued was a key driver of the rise of capitalist enterprise in Western society (Weber, 1958, 1946). By extension, we might ask: Upon what set of rules, premiums, and sanctions do news media intrapreneurs rely, in this case as they develop technological innovations such as newsbots to engage with news audiences? This theory is explicitly couched in opposition to rationalist theories of management. We limited the search to prominent English-language, general sociology and management journals. The main focus is narrowly on research that is explicitly identified as being about institutional logics, by using that phrase. This manual culling of the data resulted in 108 relevant articles—three published in 2015; 50 in 2016; 35 in 2017; and 20 in July 2018. Assumed Individual Rationality; Celebrated Voluntary Effort. Decisions and outcomes thus are the result of the interplay between agency and institutional structure, which both enable and constrain individual and organizational actors (Friedland & Alford, 1991; Jackall, 1988; Thornton & Ocasio, 1999). Institutional logics are socially constructed. Thus there is no truly objective metric for rationality; instead, rationality can be assessed only within the constraints of a particular logic. They related such projects closely to the mandates of their teams: to learn, at least in part, through constant experimentation and failure. If interviewers attended the same schools as job candidates or shared extracurricular interests, such as playing squash or traveling in Europe, interviewers were more likely to recommend that candidates move on in the hiring process. The attention to power and status relations greatly enriched the theory’s empirical promise. Such an approach allows one to uncover the meanings that agents invest in their action and in relation with other prevailing logics (Pinch & Bijker, 1984). Subsequent manual analyses narrowed the original sample to articles focused on newsbots exclusively and expanded the search to include anything new published through August 2018. In this formulation, institutional (historical) context severely limits free will and calculation. Mills explicated relationships among logics, motives, and social context (Mills, 1939, 1940). In contrast, when an institutional logic is not internalized, individuals and organizations can deploy its rules and symbols as resources, manipulating them to serve their own ends. Through two decades of research on online journalism, scholars have found great reluctance on the part of journalists to change—not out of a simple aversion to technology, but because of complicated, conflicting sets of organizational, procedural, and structural influences that shape how newsrooms work (see early examples in Boczkowski, 2004; Singer, 2006). Both Friedland and Alford (1991) and Thornton and her colleagues (Thornton & Ocasio, 1999; Thornton, Ocasio, & Lounsbury, 2012) wrote of institutional logics as encompassing cultural symbols and material practices, although Thornton and her colleagues placed much more emphasis on material practices than Friedland and Alford. Institutional logics are systems of cultural elements (values, beliefs, and normative expectations) by which people, groups, and organizations make sense of and evaluate their everyday activities, and organize those activities in time and space. To conclude, we encourage scholars to give fresh consideration to the ways in which conflicting logics interact in media management and innovation. Sense-making involves creating a coherent account of the world around us by categorizing the things we see, do, and feel, and applying patterns to connect this to things we’ve seen, done, and felt before, or anticipate seeing, doing, and feeling in the future (for more details, see Weick, 1995). In this way, intrapreneurial units are arranged in close relation to the existing organization in which they are established. This involved developing categories by grouping codes thematically, according to how they were generated by our first descriptive coding stemming from the literature (Saldaña, 2015). As news organizations deployed newsbots, they struggled with how these tools structured and communicated personalization, intimacy, personality, and authenticity. Similarly, March and Olsen (1989, 2008) juxtaposed two logics of action in government, which they conceived of being used to describe, explain, justify, and criticize behavior: the logic of consequences and the logic of appropriateness. This article explores the institutional logics of intrapreneurial units, or groups within organizations that are designated to foster organizational innovation (Antoncic & Hisrich, 2001, p. 495). An institutional logic refers to the way a social world works—a “contingent set of rules, premiums and sanctions” that agents “create and recreate in such a way that their behavior and accompanying perspective are to some extent regularized and predictable” (Jackall, 1988: 112). They identify two fundamental topics: 1) how institutional logics both guide and are guided by overarching institutional orders, and 2) how inter-logics relations create friction and space for change and agency. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of International Communication Association. Our findings reflect this vast scholarly literature in emphasizing the tension that developers of technological innovation experience within media organizations. As well as assessing these models’ ideological features, Guillén detailed the organizational structures and procedures they prescribed. This approach mirrors Holmes and Marcus’ (2008) “para-ethnography” work, which refers to experts “with shared, discovered, and negotiated critical sensibilities” that collaborate in the research design, observation, and analysis processes (2008, p. 136; Belair-Gagnon, Nelson, & Lewis, 2018). Construct validity refers to the extent to which we are actually measuring what we intended to measure—whether our empirical observations accurately and precisely capture the meaning of our theoretical constructs. Basically, actors prefer whatever outcomes deemed normatively appropriate. Federal agencies (Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) Perhaps more important, what is not a logic? And yet, management at news organizations saw the ongoing deployment of newsbots as prohibitively expensive. Maintaining an existing institutional logic requires actions that support the existing logic, including enabling, policing, deterring, celebrating and critiquing, mythologizing, and embedding and routinizing (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006). The interviews showed how these intrapreneurs are faced with the constant management of ambiguity between the corporate structure and its logics and a professional journalism logic that resisted corporate control (see Sylvie, 2018). 6 Institutional logic in self-management support: coexistence and diversity Fringe organizations (those whose messages employed unusual claims about the nature of Islam) were able to leverage their emotion-laden communications to dominate media coverage, even when faced by competition from more mainstream organizations (those whose messages employed very common claims about the nature of Islam), who tended to shun emotion-laden terms. 207, 220) and structure purposive action. The first author conducted the interviews. institutional logics prevailing in different historical periods. Institutional logics shape rational, mindful behavior, and individual and organi-zational actors have some hand in shaping and changing institutional logics (Thornton, 2004). Again, this is not surprising, as most social-science theories (certainly most sociological theories) are natural-language theories, which are inherently more ambiguous than formal (mathematical) theories. Human and financial resources were thus major impediments in achieving successful newsbot diffusion. Such conflicting logics have the effect of limiting the adoption and influence of newsbots in journalistic workflows and news formats. Reflecting a “move fast and break things” mentality, intrapreneurs initially viewed bots as the next “hot thing,” “a novelty,” or “an excitement,” but that sense of excitement quickly wore off when it became apparent how resource-intensive newsbot experiments would be. An experimental logic refers to these intrapreneurial units’ desire to be ahead of the curve. Mizruchi and Fein (1999) showed in the institutional theory literature … Institutions think by classifying things (including people), defining which things are similar and which are not; these classifications become the basis for human action, as people make rational cost-benefit calculation using these classifications, without questioning them. Last, developing theory will require making predictions that are empirically falsifiable, so we can test not only the empirical validity of theoretical claims but also their scope conditions—the times, places, and types of organizations where they do not hold. But the concept of frame is not purely cognitive—instead, it is interactional, constructed through people talking and acting together. This survey is non-parochial, in that some of the concepts analyzed come from cultural anthropology rather than sociology, but it is not universal, as it stays away from cognitive linguistics, which is seldom used by those who study organizations.5. Finally, the managerial-market era (from the early 1980s, after passage of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act in 1981 and the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act in 1982 during the Reagan presidency, to the end of the 20th century) saw the rise of the market model, in which healthcare organizations competed openly and healthcare organizations’ exchanges with their staff, their patients, and state authorities were governed by contracts. Such findings raise broader questions as to how news intrapreneurs—like middle managers more broadly—may be best positioned to navigate management directives and their implementation when those complicate traditional notions of professional autonomy (see Sylvie, 2018). Intrapreneurial units organized with actors working in-between, weaving typical boundaries between insiders and outsiders, present new paths for the study of media innovation (Ryfe, 2019). “It’s labor-intensive,” said a social media editor (J13), and “the challenge is how to keep serving it and make it a kind of experience that people will want to return to and want to subscribe to,” added another intrapreneur, when talking about a newsbot that serves long-term beats (J7). These bots represent a particularly salient expression of innovation efforts within news intrapreneurial units, situated as vehicles for disruptive innovation within news organizations. An mTORC1-dependent switch orchestrates the transition between mouse spermatogonial stem cells and clones of progenitor spermatogonia. Haveman and Rao (1997) emphasized formal structure and the nature of organizational members’ relationships to each other; Rao, Monin, and Durand (2003) accentuated the distribution of power and organizational goals (maintain the status quo versus innovate); Scott and his coauthors (2000) highlighted both formal structure and power; and Heinze and Weber (2016) called attention to professional values, practices, and practitioners’ identities. For instance, if you measure an institutional logic using qualitative coding of textual data, you should have two (or more) people do the coding and then assess inter-rater reliability—the extent to which coders agree, their consistency. 24–26) orientations toward action: instrumental rationality (Zweckrationalität, instrumental means for achieving some ends), value rationality (Wertrationalität, means that are ends in themselves—for aesthetic, ethical, or religious reasons), tradition (Tradition, means that are ingrained habits), and emotion (Affekt, means determined by affect and feeling states). Indeed, newsbots have become features on some news websites and mobile applications as news media organizations explore possibilities with the chatbot form. To understand institutional logics and their relation to innovation, it is worth looking at where forms of innovation are attempted. An institutional logic refers to the way a social world works—a “contingent set of rules, premiums and sanctions” that agents “create and recreate in such a way that their behavior and accompanying perspective are to some extent regularized and predictable” (Jackall, 1988: 112). Most interviewees were technologists and not socialized through a journalism school, and saw newswork as iterative and experimental, which may explain their approach to news innovation (cf. Institutional logics are socially constructed from historical patterns of material practices, assumptions, values, beliefs, and rules. Our reading of this work yields a sizable (and ever-growing) list of overlapping concepts including (1) institutional spheres and institutional logics; (2) embedded agency, institutional work, institutional entrepreneur, and institutional identity; (3) material practices and vocabularies of practice; (4) competing logics, hybrid logics, and plural logics; (5) institutional pillars and institutional carriers. Many mobile chat applications—including Kik, Facebook Messenger, and Viber—have introduced their own chatbots, some of which can be configured for news purposes, as in the Politibot established on Telegram to report on the 2016 Spanish elections. This account has no valid subscription for this site. News organizations have taken various approaches to designing and deploying newsbots. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to develop a theory. More generally, Weber analyzed “value spheres,” which included religion, the economy, politics, the erotic, science, and the family (Weber, 1946)—a list very similar to the list of institutional spheres proposed by Friedland and Alford (1991). After all, institutional change, one of the core foci of this line of work, both requires and evokes great passion (Friedland, 2015). As this list (which does not include all the concepts used by scholars doing this work) suggests, developing theory will also require forbearing from minting new concepts for the sake of “advancing theory,” as the proliferation of concepts that are not interconnected logically and causally retards the development of theory. Psychologists have developed tests for reliability (e.g., Cronbach, 1951) that can be easily applied to this topic. In the end, they created a new institutional logic for French fine food, “nouvelle cuisine” (Rao, Monin, & Durand, 2003). Intrapreneurs described the projects as solving larger problems of efficiency and replacing menial tasks that automated systems promise to overcome. Institutional logics have been described in a variety of ways and can occur at societal, industry, organizational field, or organizational levels. In each era, there was a single dominant meso-level logic, which was instantiated in specific organizational structures, procedures, and cultures. These authors delineated three models of corporate governance (macro- or societal-level logics) that, at different points in time, led to the use of different meso- or organizational-level logics by healthcare organizations. In particular, these projects were described as short-term efforts organized in conjunction with intrapreneurial units around a reporting beat or for a limited amount of time (e.g., 72 hours for a political convention or two months for a longer beat). This rapid rise and fall of newsbots, particularly in the context of media work and intrapreneurial teams, offers a perspective for understanding the tensions and interpretations surrounding the introduction of (and potential resistance to) proposed technological innovations. Evaluting these trends suggest three gentle corrections and potentially useful extensions to the literature help to guide future research: (1) limiting the definition of institutional logic to cultural-cognitive phenomena, rather than including material phenomena; (2) recognizing both “cold” (purely rational) cognition and “hot” (emotion-laden) cognition; and (3) developing and testing a theory (or multiple related theories), meaning a logically interconnected set of propositions concerning a delimited set of social phenomena, derived from assumptions about essential facts (axioms), that details causal mechanisms and yields empirically testable (falsifiable) hypotheses, by being more consistent about how we use concepts in theoretical statements; assessing the reliability and validity of our empirical measures; and conducting meta-analyses of the many inductive studies that have been published, to develop deductive theories. The more decomposable they are, the less they can be argued to exist. If institutional logics exist in a nested hierarchy, then they are both frames for action and products of action (Holm, 1995): individuals, groups, and organizations can use the cultural elements of higher-level logics to create, bolster, transform, or undercut lower-level logics. If we are to take the terms we use seriously, we have to admit that logics are cognitive constructs—socially constructed schemas, shared understandings, (preconscious, subconscious, or conscious) rationalizations. While socialbots have a longer history in other domains, such as computational propaganda (Woolley & Howard, 2018) and in playful encounters on social media (Neff & Nagy, 2016), the recent introduction of newsbots in journalism poses particular questions about the nature of these interactions, their forms and functions, and their meanings for relationships between journalists and audiences as well as between humans and machines (Lewis, Guzman, & Schmidt, 2019). . We identified these units from an initial analysis of the trade-press discourse on newsbots (see Endnote 1). Therefore, this logic celebrated creativity and novelty in the invention of new dishes with the chef as the actor with the power to create and express an individual voice through cuisine; transgression of classical prescriptions, such as by combining old techniques with new ingredients (and vice versa) or combining ingredients that had never been put together; and acclimatization, or importing “exotic” ingredients and techniques from foreign culinary traditions. Grindle, M. (2004). Because institutional logics are, fundamentally, cultural phenomena, most previous research has taken them to be purely rational constructs—even if the rationality they engender is not a logic of means/ends (pure instrumentality), but rather a logic of appropriateness, due to bounded rationality (March & Olsen, 1989, 2008). Loans were made in order of application; interest rates varied with demand. Can every set of ideas be considered a logic? The content and context of the institutional logics analyzed in these articles also varied widely, including Japanese housewives’ identities (Leung, Zietsma, & Peredo, 2014); gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender ministers’ negotiation of contradictory logics between their churches and their own sexual orientation (Creed, DeJordy, & Lok, 2010); the collapse of the Communist Party’s ideology in the Soviet Union (Deroy & Clegg, 2015); and values and practices in academic management publishing (Symon, Buehring, Johnson, & Cassell, 2008). vi LIST OF ABBREVIATION S HEIs – Higher Education Institutions UTA – University of Tampere MEUR – Million Euro LIST OF FIGURS Figure1: The Model of Microfoundations of institutional Logics … Precedence in borrowing was established by bidding. Indeed, as Ocasio, Loewenstein, and Nigam argue, agents “draw on available logics and categories to engage in sensegiving, providing opportunities to reproduce and transform interpretations of organizing practices through indicating the continuity and the novelty of organizations or practices” (2015, p. 35). As agents form interpretations of emerging technology in conversations with others and through their own use of such tools, the technologies introduced to organizations may lack any apparently useful functions, failing to accomplish tasks that organizational workers consider relevant or pressing (Leonardi, 2009, p. 407). Institutional logics are systems of cultural elements (values, beliefs, and normative expectations) by which people, groups, and organizations make sense of and evaluate their everyday activities, and organize those activities in time and space.1 Organizational research on institutional logics is burgeoning. 15 no. While the case of newsbots is exploratory, the approach we have developed could be used to study other cases of media work and innovation. In the late 1970s, international competition and declining U.S. stock markets prompted the decline of the finance conception and the rise of the shareholder value conception. Constructs related to institutional logics have a long history in the social sciences. Division of labor (roles): some members were only savers, others were both savers and borrowers, still others (those contributing guarantee stock) were capital investors. Institutions think by analogy; analogies stabilize institutions by making them legitimate, normal, and endowed with “self-validating truth” (p. 48). But which individuals and organizations can succeed at this depends on who has control over those resources and the rules by which those resources are produced, allocated, and controlled. If institutionalization is a process, rather than an end state (Tolbert & Zucker, 1996), then not all logics are stable or fully institutionalized, and not all contexts (individual organization, industry, or societal sector/field) are dominated by a single, uncontested logic. Precursors are surveyed in chronological order, in order to trace their temporal development and note interdependencies among them. Thus, newsbots became a means to an end: intrapreneurs interpreted newsbots as a way for news organizations to discover and reach niche audiences. Yet the collection of propositions associated with this perspective has become quite scattered; some contradict others (but have not been settled by empirical study), while others are only loosely connected. An institutional logics approach to social entrepreneurship: Market logic, religious diversity, and resource acquisition by microfinance organizations Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 24 There is a conundrum: Institutional logics are specific constellations of practices, identities and objects. Two examples of plurality have already been discussed: the work on early thrifts, where the logic that eventually came to dominate was a hybrid of two earlier logics (Haveman & Rao, 1997), and the work on the logic of integrative medicine, which itself was a blend of ideas from conventional and alternative medicine (Heinze & Weber, 2016). The term ‘institutional logics’ explains contradictory practices and beliefs that are inherent in the major institutions of modern society: family, community, religion, state, market, profession and corporation (Friedland and Alford, 1991; Thornton et al., 2012).Institutional logics can be viewed as The interviews included four women and 12 men from 12 news organizations located in English-speaking countries including the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, with all of these organizations having a global reach. The second is a basis for decision-making in which actors develop preferences through learning that takes place within specific institutional (historical) contexts; these preferences reflect historically specific norms, expectations, and rules. From the perspective of intrapreneurs, negotiating these institutional logics and conditions made innovation difficult to fully implement. He also recognized that logics are historically contingent—they vary from era to era and from situation to situation. One way to develop hypotheses based on these studies would be to conduct a rigorous meta-analysis. The rise of intrapreneurship underscores a shift from an externally oriented approach to organizational innovation (e.g., mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships) to a more internally oriented approach to innovation in organizations (Pinchot & Pellman, 1999; though see also Aitamurto & Lewis, 2013). To assess construct validity, we must rigorously assess the correspondence between our empirical observations and our theoretical constructs (Cook & Campbell, 1979; Schwab, 1980). Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries. Computer-assisted Parkinson's disease diagnosis using fuzzy optimum- path forest and Restricted Boltzmann Machines. One R&D director recalled that the necessary investments of time and resources proved too challenging for news organizations (J5). Once the interviews were professionally transcribed and taking cues from journalism studies scholars (see Ferrucci 2017; Tamelin & Broersma 2013), in the first and second phase of coding the first and third authors collaboratively read and re-read the interview transcripts and discussed which themes best applied to the literature. Finally, Douglas (1986) explained how institutions think and how human thought itself is dependent on institutions. Inspired by Weber and Bendix, Guillén (1994) analyzed managerial ideologies in the United States, Britain, Spain, and Germany from the late 19th century to the late 20th century, examining the ideas proposed by those who wrote about how management was and should be practiced, and how employing organizations were and should be designed. COVID-19, public health and constructive journalism in Canada. The search yielded a total of 126 articles. Within journalism, the ecology of newsbots has been a vibrant space of exploration, beginning with early expectations in 2015 and accelerating in 2016 and 2017 as a raft of news-based newsbot experiments, startups, and related developments arrived on the scene.1 By 2018, however, the picture had become decidedly more mixed, both for newsbots generally (Griffith & Simonite, 2018) and in the context of journalism specifically (Peterson, 2018), as a growing number of newsbot initiatives were abandoned for lack of interest, functionality, or investment. Individuals and organizations can play one institution off against another by manipulating and reinterpreting symbols in terms of their preferred logic—the logic that offers them the best chance to achieve their desired ends. Corresponding author: Valerie Belair-Gagnon; e-mail: Search for other works by this author on: Automation, skill and the future of capitalism, Open innovation in digital journalism: Examining the impact of Open APIs at four news organizations, Intrapreneurship: Construct refinement and cross-cultural validation, Boundary work, interloper media, and analytics in newsrooms: An analysis of the roles of web analytics companies in news production, Audience engagement, reciprocity, and the pursuit of community connectedness in public media journalism. Phone interviews are also less intrusive for interviewees and allow researchers to communicate in real time, without the constraints of email or surveys (Novick, 2008). Yet agency is not always possible. It integrates the practice literature with research on theories, narratives, and vocabularies of practice. This study illustrates the shaping influence of competing institutional logics and their negotiation in the development, deployment, and success or failure of intrapreneurial activities within organizations. Members subscribed to the number of shares with a matured value equal to the value of the loan they wanted. While the two logics (corporate and professional) were reflected in these intrapreneurs’ recollection of their experience with newsbots as innovation in journalism, these intrapreneurs noted difficulties in reconciling the two in their role as coordinators and managers of these technologies in the newsroom and in the news media organization as a whole. Some research on competing logics has explained the conditions under which organizational change can occur and the mechanisms driving change. Chefs mere employees, hidden in the kitchen, Large inventories (freshness not important), Prototypical ingredients: game, shellfish, cream, poultry, river fish, Production by chefs in the kitchen & waiters in the dining room, Emphasize freshness & seasonality of ingredients, Prototypical ingredients: fruits, vegetables, aromatic herbs, and sea fish, Production entirely by chefs in the kitchen; waiters simply deliver food. 5. But some of these concepts were proposed as germane to limited arenas of life (the Protestant ethic to religion and the economy, managerial ideologies and conceptions of control to large corporations, and the logic of appropriateness to political behavior), so they are best classified as special types of institutional logics. There has been a proliferation of research about institutional logics on ever-more-specialized topics, but there has not been any appreciable accumulation of knowledge, either within topic or overall. He categorized some 39 scholars’ ideas into three groups of models of management—scientific management, human relations, and structural analysis—and probed how these models rationalized (justified) hierarchical authority in firms and shaped managers’ decision-making and actions.
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