"Affinities of Language, Cultural Tool Kits, Institutional Logics: Advancing Strategies of Action"

This symposium explores and connects the ideas of scholars from management and cultural sociology who are developing research that integrates perspectives on language, cultural tool kits, and institutional logics with implications for strategies of action and practice. In bridging these perspectives, we seek to open new avenues of scholarship in the fields of management and entrepreneurship. How might one think about this? All words are defined relative to conceptual frames. The institutional logics perspective is a conceptual frame, i.e., the institutional orders of the family, religion, community, market, state, professions, and the corporation, are associated with distinct language domains. The cultural tool kit perspective is a mechanism that explains how language is exportable across domains and used to justify action and practice. Conversations between management and cultural sociology scholars have been limited; we bring together scholars who stand out as beacons of one or more of these three arena...