Role of organisational sensemaking in the emergence of a hybrid logic: The case of the National Gallery in London.
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AlShawaaf, N.
Baroun, A.
Alqatan, A.
Arslan, M.
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2024
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This study explores how a micro-level mechanism leads to change in institutional logic by examining the role of sensemaking in emergence of a hybrid logic. Examining the mechanisms that lead to logic emergence is important to improve our understanding of why and how organisations become hybrids. Through a case study analysis, this study illustrates how a top-down process of organisational sensemaking resulted in emergence of a hybrid logic which provides multiple organising principles that are combined in novel ways. The findings reveal dominant logic wasn’t changed but a new logic is combined to assist in coping with the demands from the institutional environment and survive.Institutional pressures represent multiple circumstances that organisational actors identify, assign meaning by interpretation, and take action by configuring activities of multiple logics. The emerged hybridity is a resort by which it is intended to cope with institutional pressures but not optimal for competitiveness and sustainability.
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AlShawaaf, N., Baroun, A., Alqatan, A., & Arslan, M. (in press). Role of organisational sensemaking in the emergence of a hybrid logic: The case of the National Gallery in London. International Journal of Electronic Finance. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijef.2025.10063360