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

Benard Ngoye, V. Sierra, T. Ysa

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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.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)256-266
Número de páginas11
PublicaciónPublic Administration Review
Volumen79
N.º2
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 1 mar 2019

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