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TitleProcesses for retrenching logics: The Alberta oil sands case 2008-2011
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsMisutka, P. J., Coleman C. K., Jennings D. P., & Hoffman A. J.
Volume39
Pagination32 pages
Publication Languageeng
Keywordssocial issues
Abstract

Why do significant cultural anomalies frequently fail to generate change in institutional logics? Current process models offer a number of direct ways to enable the creation and diffusion of ideas and practices, but the resistance to adoption and diffusion, something so emphasized by the old institutionalism, has not been incorporated as directly in those models in a way that allows us to answer this question. Therefore, we theorize three retrenchment processes that impede innovation: cultural positioning, behavioral resistance, and feedback shaping. The ways in which these processes work are detailed in a case study of one high profile cultural anomaly: oil production and environmental management in Alberta’s oil sands from 2008 to 2011. Implications for the institutional logics perspective and understanding logics in action are discussed.

Notes

IN: Lounsbury M and E. Boxenbaum (Eds.). Institutional Logics in Action Part A - Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Volume 39. pp.131-163.

Locational Keywords

Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR)

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