Unpacking Power in an Institutionally Complex Field: Community Radio in India (WITHDRAWN)

In this paper, we respond to recent calls for the need for a critical view of power in institutional theory. We address this gap by unpacking the power struggles in an institutionally complex field around the newly emerging phenomenon of community radio in India. We analyze the political nature of the conflicting institutional logics in this contested hierarchical field and draw implications for power using Foucault’s power-knowledge perspective and Bourdieu’s concept of fields. To do this, we first assess the conflicting nature of the logics in the field and how any one logic can be problematized with reference to another. Then, we analyze the responses of community radio station licensee organizations using a problematizing lens of field actors. We thus interpret power struggles between unequal actors as manifested through the creation of boundaries and the constraints imposed by pre-existing boundaries. By doing so, we contribute to highlighting the role of power in institutional logics and complexity,...