Institutional Logics and Diverging Organizational Forms: An Empirical Study in Russia
Using an institutional logics approach, this study investigates how the institutional logics of leaders of grassroots social service nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Russia changed over time and how these changes related to changes in organizational mission, people served, professionalization...
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Midwest Public Affairs Conference
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| description | Using an institutional logics approach, this study investigates how the institutional logics of leaders of grassroots social service nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Russia changed over time and how these changes related to changes in organizational mission, people served, professionalization, and interactions with the government. Relying on interviews as well as other data gathered, this analysis of organizational leaders’ narratives reveals the identities and experiences that these leaders turn to in their sensemaking of significant events. The findings show that, on the one hand, social welfare NGOs continued to provide services, increased their advocacy efforts, and professionalized their staff. Volunteer organizations, on the other hand, discontinued provision of social services turning instead to the recruitment and development of volunteers. Theoretically, this empirical case illustrates how an interplay of factors at multiple levels can affect the expression of logics at the organizational level. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7b06c15167f24349a26578d6fdb60eb12022-12-22T01:16:25ZengMidwest Public Affairs ConferenceJournal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs2381-37172020-08-016215918110.20899/jpna.6.2.159-181171Institutional Logics and Diverging Organizational Forms: An Empirical Study in RussiaMaria V. Wathen0Loyola University ChicagoUsing an institutional logics approach, this study investigates how the institutional logics of leaders of grassroots social service nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Russia changed over time and how these changes related to changes in organizational mission, people served, professionalization, and interactions with the government. Relying on interviews as well as other data gathered, this analysis of organizational leaders’ narratives reveals the identities and experiences that these leaders turn to in their sensemaking of significant events. The findings show that, on the one hand, social welfare NGOs continued to provide services, increased their advocacy efforts, and professionalized their staff. Volunteer organizations, on the other hand, discontinued provision of social services turning instead to the recruitment and development of volunteers. Theoretically, this empirical case illustrates how an interplay of factors at multiple levels can affect the expression of logics at the organizational level.http://jpna.org/index.php/jpna/article/view/308institutional logicsrussiasocial servicengomicrofoundations |
| spellingShingle | Maria V. Wathen Institutional Logics and Diverging Organizational Forms: An Empirical Study in Russia Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs institutional logics russia social service ngo microfoundations |
| title | Institutional Logics and Diverging Organizational Forms: An Empirical Study in Russia |
| title_full | Institutional Logics and Diverging Organizational Forms: An Empirical Study in Russia |
| title_fullStr | Institutional Logics and Diverging Organizational Forms: An Empirical Study in Russia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Institutional Logics and Diverging Organizational Forms: An Empirical Study in Russia |
| title_short | Institutional Logics and Diverging Organizational Forms: An Empirical Study in Russia |
| title_sort | institutional logics and diverging organizational forms an empirical study in russia |
| topic | institutional logics russia social service ngo microfoundations |
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