ABSTRACT
The logic had given the teams an identity as cricketers, in which actions that might be appropriate in other logics were ruled as lacking legitimacy. Institutional theory has been criticised for its lack of attention to materiality. This chapter discusses the way in which logics bestow identities, discussion that draws on the logic of play in particular. Materiality is integral to organizing, positing that the social and the material are constitutively entangled in everyday life. Work in the information systems domain, suggests that material properties are important in carrying the logics that condition action. Embedded in the positioning of the poor box were assumptions that had serious consequences for the spatial organisation of churches, consequences that reflected the different logics embedded in Catholic and Protestant liturgies. The logics also play out both in relation to other logics and through the lens provided by other forms of collective organisation and identity.
