ABSTRACT
Having developed the top-down view from the field-level archival analysis and bottom-up view from the organizational case studies, I integrate all the findings into an inter-institutional system of logics in the field of higher education. I explicate six prevailing logics as—academic, community, corporation, market, state, and social logics, that are built upon or drawn from the societal institutional logics in the extant research. I also introduce the seventh emerging logic—cyber-cultural logic—that captures the mediatization of teaching practice. For each of these seven logics, I identify and define their building blocks such as their root metaphor, source of identity, and source of legitimacy. Through this explication, I uncover their inherent contradictions that threaten as well as define their presence in the inter-institutional dynamics of higher education.
