Climate change can bring about large-scale irreversible physical impacts and systemic changes in the operating environment of public organizations. Research on preconditions for organizational adaptation to climate change has produced two parallel lines of inquiry, one focusing on macro-level norms, rules and expectations and the other on meso-level culture, design and structure within the organization. Drawing on the meta-theory of institutional logics, this study proposes a configurational approach to link institutionally aware top managers with the combination and reconciliation of macro- and meso-level logics. We identify government authority, professionalism and market as macro-level institutional logics, and risk-based logic and capacity-based logic as critical meso-level institutional logics. Our theory proposes that 1) the macro- and meso-level institutional logics co-exist in systematic ways as to produce identifiable configurations, 2) the configurations are differentially associated with climate adaptation, and 3) the effects of each logic differ across the configurations. Using a 2019 national survey on approximately 1000 top managers in the largest U.S. transit agencies, we apply confirmatory factor analysis and laten profile analysis to identify three distinct clusters: forerunner, complacent and market-oriented. Only the forerunner cluster is adaptive to climate change, while the two others are maladaptive. Findings from the multigroup structural equation modeling also demonstrate varied effects of each institutional logic on adaptation across the clusters, confirming institutional work at play to reconcile and integrate co-existing and potential contradictory logics.

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解释公共组织对气候变化的适应：宏观和中观层次的制度逻辑配置

气候变化会给公共组织的运营环境带来大规模的不可逆转的物理影响和系统性变化。对组织适应气候变化的先决条件的研究产生了两条平行的探究线，一条关注宏观层面的规范、规则和期望，另一条关注组织内部的中观层面的文化、设计和结构。本研究借鉴制度逻辑的元理论，提出了一种配置方法，将具有制度意识的高层管理者与宏观和中观逻辑的结合与协调联系起来。我们将政府权威、专业性和市场视为宏观层面的制度逻辑，将基于风险的逻辑和基于能力的逻辑视为关键的中观制度逻辑。我们的理论提出：1）宏观和中观层面的制度逻辑以系统的方式共存，以产生可识别的配置；2）配置与气候适应有不同的关联；3）每种逻辑的影响因配置而异. 我们使用 2019 年对美国最大的交通机构中大约 1000 名高级管理人员的全国调查，应用验证性因素分析和潜在概况分析来确定三个不同的集群：先行者、自满和市场导向。只有先行者集群适应气候变化，而其他两个则适应不良。多组结构方程模型的结果也证明了每个制度逻辑对跨集群适应的不同影响，