Pastor practices in the era of megachurches: New organizational practices and forms for a changing institutional environment

Religion is a significant social force on organizational practice yet has been relatively underexamined in organization theory. In this article, I assert that the institutional logics perspective is especially conducive to examine the macrolevel role of religion for organizations. The notion of the religious logic offers conceptual means to explain the significance of religion, its interrelationship with other institutional orders, and embeddedness into and impact across interinstitutional systems. I argue for intrainstitutional logic plurality and show that specifically the intrareligious logic plurality has been rather disregarded with a relative focus on Christianity and a geographical focus on “the West.” Next, I propose the concept of interinstitutional logic prevalence and show that the religious logic in particular may act as a metalogic due to its potential for uniqueness, ultimacy, and ubiquity. Through illustrations from Islamic Finance and Entrepreneurship, I exemplify implications of logic plurality and prevalence for organizations and societies.

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The multiple logics of Buddhist monastery accounting

Chandrasena,

Quinn

2024

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Research has shown that Buddhist monasteries’ accounting provides detailed and fulfilling accountability requirements to rulers and the public. However, what influenced such practices is under-researched. In bridging this gap, this study adopts an institutional logic framing and identifies three institutional logics: devotional, public and private that appear to have shaped early accounting thought and practices in Ceylonese Buddhist monasteries. The research comprises the analysis of English translations of 122 inscriptions dating from the first to the sixteenth century. The analysis reveals the co-existence and mutual dependence of the three logics, concluding that these logics influenced accounting at the same time. The accounts are also important tools to maintain the co-existence of these competing institutional logics, highlighting a dynamic two-way relationship between logics and accounting. The study demonstrates the role of accounting as a bridging mechanism, temporarily combining logics to exploit complementarities between them, maintain the hybridity of monasteries and preserve their legitimacy. The ability of accounting to represent all logics enables the stability of monasteries over time.

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Pastor practices in the era of megachurches: New organizational practices and forms for a changing institutional environment

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