The material and visual basis of institutions

Candace Jones; Renate Meyer; Dennis Jancsary; Markus Höllerer

doi:10.4135/9781446280669.n24

The material and visual basis of institutions

Candace Jones, Renate Meyer, Dennis Jancsary, Markus Höllerer

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Materiality and visuality are crucial to institutions and institutional processes. They constitute ‘embodied’ aspects of all experiences, including the creation and interpretation of signs and institutions, which are bound to material properties of the sensory apparatus, such as vocal chords, retinas, the brain, etc. Materiality and visuality are also central media by which ideas, beliefs and values are expressed, shared and stored to endure over time and across space. We examine how material and visual properties of artifacts influence core institutional constructs and processes such as legitimacy, institutional logics, theorization, translation and identity. We present our conclusions and offer potential directions for future research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism
Editors	Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Thomas B. Lawrence, Renate E. Meyer
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Chapter	23
Pages	621-646
Number of pages	26
Edition	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781526415066
ISBN (Print)	9781412961967, 9781412941297, 9781529712117
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446280669.n24
Publication status	Published - May 2017

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institutional theory
materiality
visuality
institutional logics
identity
theorization
framing
legitimacy

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The material and visual basis of institutions. / Jones, Candace; Meyer, Renate; Jancsary, Dennis et al.
The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism. ed. / Royston Greenwood; Christine Oliver; Thomas B. Lawrence; Renate E. Meyer. 2. ed. London: SAGE Publications, 2017. p. 621-646.

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