ABSTRACT

While institutional logics theory has increasingly been applied in higher education research, especially in the past five years, agreement is lacking on how to approach institutional logics analysis. This results in proliferating institutional logics in higher education studies and often confuses newcomers to the field as to how to use institutional logics in their empirical research. As a response to this situation, our study outlines the state-of-the-art application of institutional logics in higher education studies through scrutinising 59 articles that apply institutional logics in organisation studies in the field of higher education. Specifically, we ask the following research questions: What approaches to institutional logics analysis are used in higher education studies? What institutional logics are identified/applied in higher education studies? What challenges are evident in applying institutional logics in higher education studies? How does the use of institutional logics in higher education research contribute to institutional logics theory? The most profound outcomes of our literature analysis are: First, we construct a novel typology of approaches to institutional logics analysis that is positioned on two-dimensions: the reasoning applied (deductive vs. inductive), and the level at which the logic is examined (societal vs. field/local); Second, we create an exhaustive list of institutional logics (over 50) applied and identified in these studies; Third, we discover major challenges in using institutional logics in higher education research. Finally, we clearly define societal-level and field-level logics and suggest a rationalisation of institutional logics approaches in order to fully utilise the explanatory power of institutional logics.

摘要

虽然制度逻辑理论越来越多地应用于高等教育研究，特别是在过去五年中，但在如何进行制度逻辑分析方面缺乏一致意见。这导致高等教育研究中制度逻辑的激增，并且经常使该领域的新手混淆如何在他们的实证研究中使用制度逻辑。作为对这种情况的回应，我们的研究通过审查 59 篇将制度逻辑应用于高等教育领域的组织研究的文章，概述了制度逻辑在高等教育研究中的最新应用。具体来说，我们提出以下研究问题：高等教育研究中使用了哪些制度逻辑分析方法？在高等教育研究中确定/应用了哪些制度逻辑？在高等教育研究中应用制度逻辑有哪些明显的挑战？在高等教育研究中使用制度逻辑对制度逻辑理论有何贡献？我们的文献分析最深刻的结果是：首先，我们构建了一种新的制度逻辑分析方法类型学，该方法定位在两个维度上：应用的推理（演绎与归纳），以及逻辑被检查的水平（社会与领域/本地）；其次，我们创建了一份详尽的制度逻辑清单（超过 50 种），这些逻辑在这些研究中应用和确定；第三，我们发现在高等教育研究中使用制度逻辑的主要挑战。最后，我们明确界定了社会层面和领域层面的逻辑，并提出了制度逻辑路径的合理化建议，以充分发挥制度逻辑的解释力。