2020 Volume 19 Issue 2 Pages 35-54
How different ideologies and values coexist, conflict, and complement each other in a particular practice. This study explores this issue based on a theoretical framework of institutional logic and practice. By fusing different theoretical assumptions about the relationship between institutional logic and practice, this research emphases the role of the institutional logic which is involved with the design process of the practice, when explaining the meanings given to the practice. This research quantitatively examined the meanings given to Japanese credit insurance system by Japanese government and Shinkin banks. Basing on the result, this research argues that institutional logic related to the design of the practice and institutional logic related to the embedment of the practice give the practice different meanings and these meanings are incommensurable. However, this research argues that the institutional logic of the former constrains the institutional logic of the latter through the design of practice. This study builds a framework that simultaneously considers different types of institutional logic that exist in historical and broad cultural contexts.
