Date of Award

1-1-2018

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Public Administration and Policy

Content Description

1 online resource (iii, ix, 182 pages) : illustrations

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Mitchel Y Abolafia

Committee Members

Karyn Loscocco, Ellen V Rubin

Keywords

Diversity and Inclusion, Institutional Logics, Race in organizations, Diversity in the workplace, Discrimination in employment, Racism in the workplace, Organizational sociology, Employees

Subject Categories

Public Administration

Abstract

This study uses the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) as case to study how racial formation in organizations is shaped by the changing institutional logics of race. It draws from the institutional logics perspective to advance theorizing on race in organizations as a multi-level process structured by societal race dynamics. It does so by studying three critical moments in the history of the NPS in which the organization was exposed, and had to respond to, varying logics of race.

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