Dependently Independent Co-existence of Institutional Logics in the Recorded Music Industry
The concept of institutional logics, notably a choice between multiple logics, has been offered as a foundation to theoretically explain heterogeneity of organisation. The thesis focuses on how this heterogeneity of organisation is possible through a study of how decision makers deal with conflicting yet co-existing logics in their every day work. The field chosen for the empirical study is the recorded music industry, where two opposing logics, the artistic and the commercial, necessarily co-exist. Through semi-structured interviews, decision makers in the recorded music industry in the UK were asked about their work processes. Their descriptions revealed two very different ways of acting based on either the artistic logic or the commercial logic. The study further shows that even if there were some attempts to take both logics into account, all the respondents emphasised one logic over the other, but not the same logic, leading to the established major/independent duality in the structure of the field.

Supervisor:
Associate professor, Eva Boxenbaum, Department of Organization, CBS.

Assessment Committee members:
Professor Christian Knudsen, (Chairman of the Committee) Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics, CBS.
Professor Kerstin Sahlin, Department of Business Studies Uppsala University
Professor Kjell Arne Røvik, Department of Political Science the University of Tromsø

After the defence the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics will be hosting a small reception at Kilevej 14 3. fl., room K3.41.

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