Hwang, HyunseokLee, Young-joo2025-05-022025-05-022023-02Hwang, H., & Lee, Y. (2023). What drives organizational missions in the nonprofit sector? An institutional logic dependence perspective. Journal of Professions and Organization, 10(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/joad002https://hdl.handle.net/1805/47677This study examines how institutional multiplicity shapes nonprofit organizations’ mission-oriented actions by using the institutional logics perspective. We test how different institutional logics (professional, market, state, and community logics) independently and collectively affect mission-oriented actions of nonprofit organizations, focusing on the two focal subsectors: human service organizations and art and culture organizations. Using a panel dataset of 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations between 2000 and 2010, we find that multiple institutional logics jointly as well as independently affect nonprofits’ mission-oriented actions and this relationship varies between the two subsectors. The findings offer empirical evidence of how multiple logics co-exist and how the dynamics among multiple logics may shape nonprofits’ actions across different subsectors.enPublisher Policyinstitutional logicsinstitutional multiplicityprofessionalizationArticle