Forskningsseminarium med Farzad Khan

Plats
Helsingfors
Rum
Auditorium 305
Centre of Corporate Responsibility, CCR, och institutionen för marknadsföring arrangerar två öppna seminarier med gästforskaren Farzad Khan (31.8, 1.9).

På torsdag 31.8 kommer Farzad att föreläsa om "Recoupling Institutional Logics through Institutional Work: The Case Study of the Pakistani Judiciary’s Struggle for Independence"

Mera information (på engelska):
Dr. Khan is a well recognized scholar within CSR and critical management studies. His research interests center on business ethics, corporate social responsibility, critical approaches in management, and organization theory.

Recoupling Institutional Logics through Institutional Work: The Case Study of the Pakistani Judiciary’s Struggle for Independence

Articulating and documenting a qualitative fieldwork based case study on the lawyers movement for judicial independence from the executive branch of the government in Pakistan (2007-2009), this paper investigates the process through which decoupled institutional logics become recoupled. In doing so, it answers the following unexplored questions in institutional theory: 1) What is the process for recoupling decoupled institutional logics?; 2) What forms of institutional work are involved in recoupling material and symbolic elements of institutional logics?; and 3) What set of activities are associated with these recoupling institutional work forms? Both written documents and field interviews have been used for addressing these questions. Doing so reveals that a successful recoupling process unfolds gradually over three stages: the background stage, the inter-person rivalry stage, and the institutional war stage. The last of these stages is divided in two phases i.e., limited and total institutional war phases. Furthermore, each stage involves various institutional work forms manifested through different activities. Identifying these work forms and activities helps us in offering a multi-level analysis of institutional agency, in opening the black box of institutional recoupling, and in highlighting some blind spots in institutional theory that potentially have to do with its ethnocentric bias and lack of input from the Global South.