Institutional Logics and Critique in German Academic Science: Studying the Merger of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

This contribution looks into changing institutional logics in the field of academic science in Germany using the case of the merger between the University of Karlsruhe and the Research Center Karlsruhe as an example. As a result of an ongoing process of critique, a new institutional logic of “organizational competition” was theorized over time that contradicted the dominant logic of “corporatist p…