Publication: Institutional logics and risk management practices in government entities: evidence from Saudi Arabia
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2022-10-07
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Gago Rodriguez, Susana Josefa (PRESIDENTE);
Trombetta, Marco (SECRETARIO)
Fuentes Barbera, Cristina de (VOCAL);
Revilla, Elena (VOCAL);
Moreno Aguayo, Alonso (VOCAL)
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IE University
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This study examines the adoption, implementation, and consequences of Risk Management (RM) practices by government entities in Saudi Arabia, a non-western, developing, and Islamictheocratic country. It investigates the dynamics behind the decision to change how government entities deal with risk and how this decision is put into practice in a dramatically different institutional context from those examined in prior research (e.g., Palermo, 2014). The study builds on the literature on institutional logics (Friedland and Alford, 1991; Lounsbury, 2008; Thornton and Ocasio, 2008; Thornton et al., 2012; Friedland, 2012). It adopts the cross-level model of institutional logics by Thornton et al. (2012) to clarify the interaction of potentially conflicting institutional logics. The institutional logics perspective provides a multi-level framework to examine the relationship between micro-processes at the individual level and a field’s institutional logics (Lounsbury, 2008). It represents a “general model of cultural heterogeneity unbiased toward the western world” (Thornton et al., 2012, p. 18) for understanding the adoption of practices. The empirical analysis is based on a longitudinal case study of a RM project implemented by a government entity. Data were obtained from interviews, observations, and documentary evidence. The adoption and implementation of RM were rooted in a traditional logic; even the catalyst of the government for adopting a RM culture across government entities was framed within a modernization reform program. The RM project led to an unstable situation; while the project used manifestations of a modernization logic, the actors’ actions were embedded in traditional logic. The study provides novel evidence of the adoption and implementation of RM in governmental entities in a developing, non-western country, which enriches accounts of drivers and barriers of RM, enhances knowledge about how managers struggle with competing logics, and addresses calls for a deeper understanding of the interplay between logics and managerial practices.
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5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas
5909 Administración Pública
11 Lógica
5909 Administración Pública
11 Lógica
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Attribution 4.0 International
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IE Business School
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Murr, P. (2022). Lógicas institucionales y prácticas de gestión de riesgos en las entidades gubernamentales: análisis del caso de Arabia Saudí (Doctoral dissertation, IE Universidad).