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Deconstructing Complexity: Configurations of Institutional Complexity and Structural Hybridity

This article unpacks the notion of institutional complexity and highlights the distinct sets of challenges confronting hybrid structural arrangements. The framework identifies three factors that contribute to the experience of complexity - namely, the extent to which the prescriptive demands of logics are incompatible, whether there is a settled or widely accepted prioritization of logics within the field, and the degree to which the jurisdictions of the logics overlap. The central thesis is that these "components" of complexity variously combine to produce four distinct institutional landscapes, each with differing implications for the challenges organizations face and for how they might respond. The article explores the situational relevance of an array of hybridizing responses and discusses their implications for organizational legitimacy and performance. It concludes by specifying the boundary conditions of the framework and highlighting fruitful directions for future scholarship.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:5082
Date January 2016
CreatorsRaynard, Mia
PublisherSAGE Publications
Source SetsWirtschaftsuniversität Wien
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, PeerReviewed
Formatapplication/pdf
Relationhttp://soq.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/03/09/1476127016634639.full.pdf+html, http://online.sagepub.com/, https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/copyright-and-permissions#AuthorRights, http://epub.wu.ac.at/5082/

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