Craft, Magic and the Re-Enchantment of the World

What Is Dead May Never Die: Institutional Regeneration through Logic Reemergence in Dutch Beer Brewing

“…Our study also makes a number of contributions to the literature at the intersection between institutional logics and field-level change. Our theory of logic reemergence stresses the importance of appreciating the historical contingencies of institutions and institutional logics (Thornton, Ocasio, and Lounsbury, 2012;Suddaby, Foster, and Mills, 2014;Ocasio, Mauskapf, and Steele, 2016), advances our understanding of the cultural resource environments that actors are embedded in by elaborating temporal and material dimensions (Scott et al, 2000;Baker and Nelson, 2005;Sine and Lee, 2009), and provides insights into how field-level logics may evolve through degenerative and regenerative dynamics (Rao, Monin, and Durand, 2003;Ocasio, Mauskapf, and Steele, 2016).…”

“…Progressive vs. regenerative institutional change. Previous research, which has predominantly documented progressive forms of institutional change (Suddaby, Ganzin, and Minkus, 2017;Zietsma et al, 2017), has shown how modernization typically involves a process of logic replacement, as in the case of the U.S. higher education publishing industry in which a market logic came to supplant an editorial logic associated with the professions (Thornton and Ocasio, 1999). In other cases, progressive institutional change may lead to logic blending, such as in the legal services field, in which idiosyncratic local logics were merged into a global logic with the advent of global law firms (Smets, Morris, and Greenwood, 2012).…”

What We Talk About When We Talk About Inequality: An Introduction to the Journal of Management Studies Special Issue

“…A selective and uncritical reading of Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism , for example, focuses attention on his interest in rationality and the pursuit of religious salvation through secular self‐interest. However, it ignores Weber's more nuanced argument about the humanistic value of myth and magic in social change (Suddaby et al, ). Bloom argued that it is such rational dismissiveness of the nuanced complexity of humanism that encourages the belief that civil society can be built on self‐interest alone, and that commercial interests can be valued more highly than love, honour or character.…”

Following the yellow brick road? (Dis)enchantment with co-design, co-production and value co-creation in public services

“…Yet the battle between reason and belief is far from being won by the former. Rather, recent history saw rationality being challenged as the status of science came under public scrutiny and re-enchantment became a counterveiling narrative throughout the world (Suddaby, Ganzin, and Minkus 2017). So demystifying aspects of the 'co-' paradigm ought to be the start of a process, not the end of it.…”

“…However, the intention behind this process is not to deplete this area of research of the magic which helped channel the efforts of so many colleagues into advancement of ideas which can make a real difference to practice (e.g. Bianchi, Bovaird, and Loeffler 2017;Bovaird and Loeffler 2014;Bianchi, Bovaird, and Loeffler 2017), but to pave avenues for reenchantment (Suddaby, Ganzin, and Minkus 2017). We start with a short conceptual discussion on the topic of this special issue: co-design, co-production and value cocreation of public services.…”