Three's a Crowd: The Role of Inter‐logic Relationships in Highly Complex Institutional Fields
研究心理健康服务重组中三种制度逻辑(健康、关怀、整合)的冲突与强化关系,揭示高度复杂场域的逻辑互动模式,对制度理论学者有参考价值。
Institutional complexity is increasingly seen in terms of potential schisms between logics in pluralist fields. However, research into complexity is mostly confined to binary institutional logics that oversimplify settings where more logics interact. The reorganized mental health service we studied brought a range of expert groups together in a highly complex institutional field. Three logics were seen to be continually in play: a health logic based on expert medical values, a care logic of holistic values, and a logic of integration based partly on managerial priorities but also shared more broadly. The paper identifies how the pattern of conflicting and reinforcing inter‐logic relations that underpinned this field was constituted and further explores a number of critical implications for complexity theory.