God, Love, and Other Good Reasons for Practice: Thinking Through Institutional Logics

Abstract

Based on the keynote address given at the conference on “Organizing Institutions: Creating, Enacting and Reacting to Institutional Logics” held at the Banff Springs Hotel in June 2012, this essay analyzes the relationship between Max Weber's polytheistic theory of value spheres and institutional logics, proposing that the latter project entails studying institutional logics through a framework of comparative religions. I argue that God, love, transcendence, and immanence are all potentially useful analytic categories by which to understand institutional logics.

Citation

Friedland, R. (2013), "God, Love, and Other Good Reasons for Practice: Thinking Through Institutional Logics", Lounsbury, M. and Boxenbaum, E. (Ed.) Institutional Logics in Action, Part A (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 39 Part A), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 25-50. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2013)0039AB005