Shifting logics: limitations on the journey from ‘state’ to ‘market’ logic in UK higher education
研究英国高校如何在外包实践中调和公共服务的“国家逻辑”与“市场逻辑”，发现外包主要限于边缘活动，而一种选择性耦合的混合模式正在兴起。
Our study of UK higher education institutions (HEIs) offers insights into the role of institutional logics in the adoption of organisational practices – specifically outsourcing. We identify two logics prevalent within HEIs: a public service ‘state logic’ and a ‘market logic’. While adherence to the market logic supports commercial-based practices such as outsourcing, organisations enact competing logics in complex ways. Outsourcing is mainly limited to peripheral activities segmented from the core while a nascent cooperative solution is emerging as HEIs co-opt practices and discourse of outsourcing to justify hybrid relationships that marry competing logics in a process of selective coupling.