When Institutional Work Backfires: Organizational Control of Professional Work in the Pharmaceutical Industry
整合制度理论与角色理论，提出逻辑-角色-行动框架，分析营利组织如何通过制度工作控制专业员工，并以制药行业为例，揭示四种组织策略如何因破坏制度结构而适得其反。
Abstract Integrating institutional and role theories, this paper develops a Logics–Roles–Action ( LRA ) framework for understanding how for‐profit organizations structure institutional work to managerially control the work of professionals they employ. Structurally, this institutional work involves three elements: (1) internalizing pluralistic logics (logics); (2) institutionalizing distinct roles embedded in these logics (roles); and (3) scripting goal‐oriented role enactment plans (action). An empirical examination of the LRA framework in the pharmaceutical industry evidences four distinct organizational strategies that script role enactments of sales professionals in their interactions with physicians. Each strategy is intended to reaffirm prevailing institutional logics, but eventually backfires by disrupting the very institutional structures that it seeks to maintain and replicate. We show that this disruptive effect is mediated by changes in the social knowledge of institutional work. We close with theoretical and managerial implications for organizational structuring of institutional work and dynamics of institutional change.