ABSTRACT

A growing number of organizations are hybrid organizations with ambiguous goals subjected to plural institutional logics. Many culture financiers not only need to handle an institutional logic of market and the democratic state, but also fulfill expectations from different fields of cultural production. This single case study on Swedish public sector financiers of art and culture focuses on the self-proclaimed most important target for such financing, namely to promote artistic quality. The article shows that plural institutional logics are instantiated in the main target of cultural financing. This in turn makes the target ambiguous and gives rise to several interpretations. The article introduces the concept of polysemy to the literature on institutional logics. It argues that one way of managing the contradictory expectations that arise from plural institutional logics is through polysemous targets; that is, by stating targets in words with multiple meaning in a semantic system.

摘要

越来越多的组织是混合组织，其目标不明确，要遵循多种制度逻辑。许多文化金融家不仅需要处理市场和民主国家的制度逻辑，而且还必须满足文化生产不同领域的期望。这项关于瑞典公共部门艺术和文化资助者的案例研究着重于自称是此类融资最重要的目标，即提高艺术品质。文章表明，多元制度逻辑在文化融资的主要目标中得到了体现。反过来，这使目标变得模棱两可，并引起了多种解释。本文将多义的概念引入有关制度逻辑的文献中。它认为处理多元制度逻辑产生的矛盾期望的一种方式是通过多目标。也就是说，通过在语义系统中用具有多种含义的单词说明目标。