Different Shades of Gray: A Priming Experimental Study on How Institutional Logics Influence Organizational Actor Judgment

This article examines whether and how judgments made by individual organizational actors may be influenced by institutional logics—the historical patterns of cultural symbols and material practices, including assumptions, values, and beliefs, by which individuals and organizations provide meaning to their daily activity, organize time and space, and reproduce their lives and experiences. Using an experimental design, the authors prime three institutional logics in three independent groups of managers (n = 98) and assess the influence of the primes on individual‐level judgment preferences. The results show that such priming affects participants' judgments in an ambiguous judgmental task, with each prime influencing judgment in a discernibly unique pattern. Consequently, a more nuanced account of larger patterns of behavior can be constructed. The findings highlight the potential of text as priming stimuli within institutionally complex work settings such as those in the public sector, an important yet underexamined issue.     

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

A few years ago,no one would have thought that China's role in the global economy would be what it is today. The architect of China's reform and openingup policy,late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, shifted China from a centrally planned to a market-oriented economy,credited for the rapid economic and social development the country has expedenced.     

Silencing the Guns

Newly elected Chairperson of the African Union(AU),South African President Cyril Ramaphosa,outlined key priority areas that will drive Africa's growth within the framework of Agenda 2063 while addressing the 33 rd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the AU.     

Trade and Opportunities

AfCFTA can benefit Africa’s youth and women and increase Sino-African cooperation The new year has come with good tidings for Africa despite the devastating economic effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic on the global economy.On the first day of 2021,African countries officially opened their markets under the continental free trade agreement(FTA)for duty-free trading of goods and services across borders.     

Rape as terror: The case of Bosnia

When ethnic minority parties are excluded from government coalitions, are group attributes such as religion related to the groups’ use of political violence? We argue that extremist factions within minority groups make use of divergence in religion to mobilize support for violent action when the group is excluded from government. Thus, we posit that while religion per se is not a source of violence, extremist elements of ethnic minorities, whose religion differs from the majority, may use religious divergence to mobilize group members to perpetrate terrorism. Specifically we test the hypotheses that extremist factions of an excluded group will be more likely to carry out terrorist attacks when the group's members belong to a different religion as well as when they belong to a different denomination or sect of a religion than the majority. To test these propositions, we use data on ethnic minority party inclusion in government coalitions, ethnic minority group religion, and the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) by matching perpetrators with ethnic groups for all democracies, 1970–2004.