Exploring the Coherence, Durability, and Governance of Institutional Logics

Institutional logics continue to shape research across organizational and societal domains, yet the empirical mechanisms through which logics cohere, evolve and interact remain a central area of inquiry. This volume examines how institutional logics operate in practice, focusing on the dynamics that structure their stability, adaptation and governance across varied empirical settings. Bringing together a collection of new empirical papers, Exploring the Coherence, Durability, and Governance of Institutional Logics: New Empirical Directions investigates how institutional logics are enacted, contested and reconfigured through real-world processes. The contributions analyze how gendered meanings and forms of capital intersect within institutional fields; how open-access publishing systems accommodate competing logics; how market logic variants influence entrepreneurial alertness; and how state logics are decomposed and recomposed through organizational reforms. Additional papers examine elite disruptions of established orders, the governance role of ESG analysts navigating institutional complexity and logic-sequencing under time-compressed disaster-recovery conditions. Providing grounded analyses of institutional logics across diverse empirical contexts, this volume extends understanding of how logics gain durability, encounter challenges and evolve over time.