20.500.12556/RUL-180696 The governance crucible institutional logics and the transformation of corporate governance in Slovenia This study explores how institutional logics are enacted and recalibrated within corporate governance amid legitimacy challenges and organisational change. Set in Slovenia’s posttransition banking sector, it combines a symbolic–material ontology of institutions with a dual distinction between identity-based logics, grounded in values and organisa- tional purpose, and activity-based logics, rooted in operational practice and performance. Drawing on elite–expert interviews and governance artefacts, the analysis traces how these logics interact across three phases of governance transformation—state stewardship, privatisation, and postprivatisation resilience. The findings show that governance is not merely a technical control system but a meaning-laden crucible where legitimacy is continually constructed and reinterpreted through leadership, decision routines, and institutional objects such as rules, metrics, and narratives. The study contributes to institutional logics research by demonstrating how identity and activity logics blend and evolve in practice and offers practical insights for governance actors seeking to sustain legitimacy and resilience in institutionally complex, historically layered environments. entrepreneurship knowledge management labour efficiency business efficiency corporate governance institutional logics identity-based logics activity-based logics legitimacy Slovenia delovna organizacija organizacijski razvoj identiteta podjetja nadzor vodenja podjetja Slovenija true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-03-13 17:16:51 2026-03-13 17:18:37 2026-03-14 04:38:04 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 16-34 iss. 1, article no. 2 Vol. 28 Mar. 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 005.336.1 2335-4216 10.15458/2335-4216.1366 270216451 https://www.ebrjournal.net/home/vol28/iss1/2/ 1 08028a25-1ef8-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=230371 The_Governance_Crucible__Institutional_Logics_and_the_Transformat.pdf The_Governance_Crucible__Institutional_Logics_and_the_Transformat.pdf 1 C718F87320D612CAB89F78218E9C0D2B 257e95384e33a2fb59a557afdc9049c8e9e7dd9d1c7813665c15edd165625acb 3c7468d6-1ef8-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=230372 Ekonomska fakulteta Economic and business review 0 0 0