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No parts of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Susanne Boch Waldorff Emerging Organizations: In between Local Translation, Institutional Logics and Discourse 1st edition 2010 PhD Series 10.2010 © The Author Emerging Organizations: ISBN: 978-87-593-8421-3 ISSN: 0906-6934 In between Local Translation, Institutional Logics and Discourse The Doctoral School of Organisation and Management Studies (OMS) is an interdisciplinary research environment at Copenhagen Business School for PhD students working on theoretical and empirical themes related to the organisation and management of private, public and voluntary organisations Susanne Boch Waldorff Department of Organization Copenhagen Business School Denmark [email protected] All rights reserved. No parts of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Acknowledgements ......................................................................... 5 2. Introduction .................................................................................... 7 3. The empirical context a. The reform of the Danish public sector .................................... 10 b. Introducing the health care centre concept ............................... 12 c. The health care centre development ........................................ 13 4. Theoretical platform a. Introduction – meaning is key ................................................. 15 b. Organizational form as a symbolic construction ...................... 16 c. Institutional mechanisms and process ...................................... 18 d. Institutional context – organizational field and community ..................................... 19 e. Institutional logics .................................................................... 20 f. Translation and the creation of localized meaning .................. 22 g. Discourse analysis ..................................................................... 25 h. Accepting the complexity – “my take” on local translation in a heterogeneous institutional context ................. 28 5. Methods a. Strategy of analysis – qualitative method and bottom-up analysis ................................................................... 31 b. Analyzing organizational form ................................................ 32 c. Case study and longitudinal design ......................................... 33 d. Data collection ......................................................................... 33 i. Qualitative data ............................................................... 34 ii. Quantitative data ............................................................. 35 e. Method triangulation ............................................................... 35 f. Constructing an analytical model comprising three separate analysis ...................................................................... 37 23 TABLE OF CONTENTS 6. Presentation of the three analyses ............................................... 40 7. Analysis 1 1. AcknowledgementsTranslations of an Organiza .........................................................................tional Concept into Local 5 Contexts: Creating legitimizing accounts linked to multilevel 2. Introductioninstitutional ....................................................................................logics ......................................................................... 44 7 8.3. AnalysisThe empirical 2 context a. The reform of the Danish public sector .................................... 10 b.The Introducing Dynamics ofthe Community health care Translation:centre concept Danish ............................... 12 Healthc. The Carehealth Cen careters centre ...................................................................... development ........................................ 1381 4. Theoretical platform 9. Analysis 3 a. Introduction – meaning is key ................................................. 15 b.Creating Organizational a New Organization: form as a sy Discursivembolic construction Legitimizing ...................... 16 Strategiesc. Institutional in Danish mechanis Healthms Care and pro ................................................cess ...................................... 108 18 d. Institutional context – organizational field and community ..................................... 19 10. Concluding remarks ................................................................... 143 e. Institutional logics .................................................................... 20 a. Theoretical contribution ......................................................... 143 f. Translation and the creation of localized meaning .................. 22 b. Relevance for practitioners ..................................................... 146 g. Discourse analysis ..................................................................... 25 c. Limitations of the study and what I could have done ............ 148 h. Accepting the complexity – “my take” on local d. Suggestions for further research ............................................ 149 translation in a heterogeneous institutional context ................. 28 11. Summary 5. Methods a. English ................................................................................... 152 a. Strategy of analysis – qualitative method and b. Danish ..................................................................................... 155 bottom-up analysis ................................................................... 31 b. Analyzing organizational form ................................................ 32 12. References ................................................................................... 158 c. Case study and longitudinal design ......................................... 33 d. Data collection ......................................................................... 33 i. Qualitative data ............................................................... 34 ii. Quantitative data ............................................................. 35 e. Method triangulation ............................................................... 35 f. Constructing an analytical model comprising