Institutional Frames

The Role of Technological Frames of Reference and Institutional Logics in the use of ICT

The concept of technological frames of reference (TFR) has been used to uncover people’s sense making of information and communication technologies (ICT), in order to deepen the understanding of ICT use. But the role of the organization’s institutional context in the development of TFR has been overlooked, and most studies of TFR has been snapshots of frames. In order to contribute to the knowl...

What’s in a frame? Social organisation, risk perception and the sociology of knowledge

A central problem in the sociology of knowledge has been to show that sane people can intelligibly have quite different alternative understandings of the same problem, such as a kind of risk, without abandoning the idea that there is a real problem about which to disagree, and to show the social basis of both plurality and viability. In recent decades, attempts to make this problem tractable ha...

Normative Alignment, Institutional Resilience and Shifts in Legal Governance of the Energy Transition

In Europe, the energy transition by means of a governance shift through liberalization is followed by a transition and shift towards community energy initiatives, with a particular view of supporting the demand for greater energy sustainability. What institutional legal consequences, as constraints and opportunities for lawful behaviour, follow from a shift in legal governance towards facilitat...

Police Legitimacy among Immigrants in Europe: Institutional Frames and Group Position Ben Bradford and Jonathan Jackson

What Frames Quality Registers in Swedish Health Care? – An Institutional Approach

Quality issues strike the classical conflict in a democratic health-care delivery system of different interests among the politicians, the medical profession and public officials. This cannot be studied as a cut-off whiz. Quality registers have developed over the past 40 years. Therefore, this paper puts the innovation of quality registers in an institutional perspective. Two things are essenti...

Clifford Chance Centre for the Management of Professional Service Firms

This paper takes the increasing internationalisation of professional service firms (PSFs) and recent institutionalist perspectives on embedded agency as opportunity to explore how the interplay of normative settings can create opportunities for institutional work. Using observational and interview data from an embedded single case study in a global law firm, the paper examines how banking lawye...