Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
1 1 Background
1.2 Contextual Studies on Safety Management
1.3 An Institutional Theory Perspective
1.4 The Hong Kong Context
1.5 Research Aims, Questions and Objectives
1.6 Scope of the Study
1.7 Structure of the Book
Chapter 2 Theoretical Background
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Emergence of the Neo-institutional Theory
2.3 Core Concepts of the Institutional Theory
2.3.1 Organisational fields
2.3.1.1 Definitions of organisational fields
2.3.1.2 Structuration of organisational fields
2.3.1.3 Issue-defined organisational fields
2.3.2 Institutions
2.3.3 Organisational legitimacy
2.3.3.1 Definitions of organisational legitimacy
2.3.3.2 Sources of legitimacy
2.3.3.3 Antecedents and consequences of legitimacy
2.3.3.4 Conflicts between legitimacy and efficiency
2 3.4 Institutional logics
2.3.4.1 Definitions of institutional logics
2.3.4.2 Institutional logics perspective and organisational heterogeneity
2.4 Debate of Structure versus Agency
2.4.1 Institutional determinism
2.4.2 Competitive versus institutional influences on organisations
2.4.3 Institutional change, complexity, and strategic choice
2.4.3.1 Institutional change
2.4.3.2 A strategic choice perspective
2.4.3.3 Institutional complexity and organisational discretion
2.5 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 3 Towards An Analytical Framework ~f Institutional Complexity and
Organisational Responses
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Institutional Complexity
3.2.1 Definitions of institutional complexity
3.2.2 Sources of institutional complexity
3.2.2.1 Central institutions at the society level
3.2.2.2 Multiple field-level institutional logics
3.2.2.3 The multiplicity of field constituents
3.2.2.4 Specificity of institutions
3.2.2.5 Conflicts between legitimacy and efficiency demands
3.3 Field Structure
3.3 1 Maturity of organisational field
3.3.2 Structure of organisational field
3.3.2 .I Field fragmentation
