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3. The Institutional Footprint of Organizations

Author : Julien Jourdan

Published in: Materiality in Institutions

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Jourdan develops the notion of institutional footprint of organizations and provides an empirical illustration of how footprints vary in depth and availability. He discusses the contribution of this notion for the study of materiality in institutional theory and considers its implications for the understanding of organizations and institutions.

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Other chapters in the book take into consideration business schools and education organizations as a vivid arena of institutional dynamics. In Chap. 5, Arena and Douai analyze the emergence of business education as an alternate institutional logic in Oxford University. In Chap. 7, De Vaujany, Winterstorm, Valander, and Vaast examine how universities rely on campus tours to enhance their legitimacy. Finally, in Chap. 9, Thomas Abrunhosa and Canales present Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as a competing institutional logic to traditional education.

For more discussion about durability, please refer to the postface of the book.

In Chap. 9, Thomas, Abrunhosa, and Canales also explore the co-existence of institutional logics and the associated conflicts.

Variations in availability—related to heterogeneous diffusion and readability—opens the possibility that perceptions of institutional footprint vary across audiences.

Conceptually, failing to adopt (e.g., a practice that gains momentum) could also be a source of institutional alteration.

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Title: The Institutional Footprint of Organizations
Author: Julien Jourdan
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Materiality in Institutions
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-97471-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-97472-9

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97472-9_3