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Please join us for an exciting Academy session that links communication, framing, sensemaking and vocabularies to institutional logics.  We know less than we might about the microconstruction of institutions through meaning making activities at the dyadic and group levels of social organization and whether and how these meanings subsequently spread and become institutionalized. We will examine the construction and negotiation of meanings through interactions and discourse that are foundational to cultural- cognitive alignment and institutionalization.

Logics and Alternative Approaches to Understanding Meanings in Institutions

Monday, Aug 10 2015 9:45AM - 11:15AM at Vancouver Convention Centre in Room 110

Panelists: Mike Lounsbury, Willie Ocasio, Jeff Loewenstein, Paul Hirsch, Barbara Gray, Jill Purdy and Shaz Ansari

Institutional logics have become a dominant approach to understanding organization and field dynamics, but a variety of theoretical tools are available to interpret how meanings are constructed, transmitted and changed, including theories of communication, framing, sensemaking, and vocabularies.  Join us for a moderated panel discussion that explores how these approaches expand on the logics approach and collectively offer a richer, more nuanced and complete account of how meanings become institutionalized and contribute to change, stasis and persistence of institutions.