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Running Head: COMPETING LOGICS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FAILURE i
Competing Logics and Organizational Failure:
The Structuring of California Prison Health Care
by
Jennifer Lee Heckman
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICATION AND JOURNALISM
May 2013
Object Description
| Title | Competing logics and organizational failure: the structuring of California prison health care |
| Author | Heckman, Jennifer Lee |
| Author email | jennifer.l.heckman@gmail.com;jheckman@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Communication |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2013-02-25 |
| Date submitted | 2013-05-06 |
| Date approved | 2013-05-06 |
| Restricted until | 2013-05-06 |
| Date published | 2013-05-06 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Riley, Patricia |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Goodnight, G. Thomas Hollihan, Tom Keough, Collen M. |
| Abstract | New institutional theory posits that organizations experiencing coercive isomorphic pressures will change in order to maintain legitimacy. However, this may not always be the case. Using a structurationist lens, this dissertation explores an organization’s failure to change under coercive isomorphism. At the root of this failure lay conflicting logics about the purpose and function of the institution. Specifically, this case study explores the Plata v. Schwarzenegger class action lawsuit regarding prison inmates’ lack of access to adequate medical care. Prison structuration reflected predominant institutional logics of command and control, making it difficult for organizations to enact legitimate caring practices. Two powerful stakeholders groups, prison workers and state bureaucrats, were key players in the failed quest to improve prison health care. Namely, for correctional officers, care was often associated with weakness or vulnerability. For the state, there was resistance to subvert established bureaucratic practices to improve health care. Stakeholders dismissed an identity of the prison as a site for medical excellence, even under the threat of a loss of legitimacy. This research provides an opportunity to investigate how enacted logics challenge coercive isomorphic pressures. |
| Keyword | new institutional theory; structuration; logics; legitimacy; organizational culture; prison health care |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Heckman, Jennifer Lee |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-HeckmanJen-1657.pdf |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume3/etd-HeckmanJen-1657.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | Running Head: COMPETING LOGICS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FAILURE i Competing Logics and Organizational Failure: The Structuring of California Prison Health Care by Jennifer Lee Heckman _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICATION AND JOURNALISM May 2013 |
