A Tale of Two Cities: Competing Logics and Practice Variation In the Professionalizing of Mutual Funds
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... Marquis & Lounsbury, 2007 Meyer & Hammerschmid, 2006 † Field † 1994 – 2002 † Banking sector in U.S. † Individual † 2003 † Public sector in Austria Quantitative analysis Competing logics facilitate resistance to institutional change by stimulating new forms of professional…...
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...…more than two—play out within organizational fields (e.g., Binder, 2007; Delbridge & Edwards, 2008; Dunn & Jones, 2010; Kitchener, 2002; Lok, 2010; Lounsbury, 2007; Marquis & Lounsbury, 2007; Pache & Santos, 2010; Purdy & Gray, 2009; Reay & Hinings, 2009; Scott, Ruef, Mendel, & Caronna, 2000)....
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...…and compete.1Marquis and Lounsbury (2007) connect fundamental and competing logics of the state to alternative logics in the U.S. banking sector; furthermore, in an interesting elaboration, they show how field-level logics become rooted in geographical communities (see also Lounsbury, 2007)....
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...…et al.’s (2010) studies, although they depict a more complex scenario where multiple inherently contradictory logics coexist and compete.1Marquis and Lounsbury (2007) connect fundamental and competing logics of the state to alternative logics in the U.S. banking sector; furthermore, in an…...
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...Similarly, Lounsbury (2007) found that relative stability in the mutual fund industry was achieved by a geographic dispersion of competing logics—whereby the professional trustee logic persisted in one geographic location and the market performance logic in another....
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...These studies have contributed to explaining variance in organizational practices within and across organizational fields (Lounsbury, 2007)....
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...Research has also shown that multiple institutional logics often co-exist within organizational fields (e.g., Reay & Hinings, 2005; Marquis & Lounsbury, 2007), and that these multiple logics might impose different, and potentially conflicting, demands on organizations (D‟Aunno, Sutton, & Price,…...
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...…mutual fund industry from passive investment trusteeship to speculative portfolio growth based on the professionally-credentialed theory of risk-management (lounsbury, 2007; lounsbury and crumley, 2007), they argue that practice variation is particularly important in accounting for…...
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...In these complex environments, organizations are exposed over lengthy periods of time to multiple institutional logics that prescribe what constitutes legitimate behavior and provide taken-for-granted conceptions of what goals are appropriate and what means are legitimate to achieve these goals (Lounsbury, 2007b; Thornton & Ocasio, 2008)....
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...…are exposed over lengthy periods of time to multiple institutional logics that prescribe what constitutes legitimate behavior and provide taken-for-granted conceptions of what goals are appropriate and what means are legitimate to achieve these goals (Lounsbury, 2007b; Thornton & Ocasio, 2008)....
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...…models of action creates opportunities for hybrid organizations to draw from the broader repertoire of behaviors prescribed by competing logics (Battilana & Dorado, 2010; Binder, 2007; Greenwood, Diaz, Li, & Lorente, 2010; Greenwood et al., 2011; Lounsbury, 2007a; Reay & Hinings, 2009)....
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...…by the rise of efficiency market theorists in financial economics who challenged performanceoriented funds by claiming that no investor (including a mutual fund) has much chance, beyond luck, of consistently outguessing all other market participants (e.g., Fama, 1970; Jensen, 1965; Malkiel, 1973)....
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...This renewal of the trustee logic was partly supported by the rise of efficiency market theorists in financial economics who challenged performanceoriented funds by claiming that no investor (including a mutual fund) has much chance, beyond luck, of consistently outguessing all other market participants (e.g., Fama, 1970; Jensen, 1965; Malkiel, 1973)....
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