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Environmental managers and institutional work : reconciling tensions of competing institutional logics
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Dahlmann, Frederik and Grosvold, Johanne (2017) Environmental managers and institutional work : reconciling tensions of competing institutional logics. Business Ethics Quarterly, 27 (2). pp. 263-291. doi:10.1017/beq.2016.65
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/beq.2016.65
Abstract
Firms face a variety of institutional logics and one important question is how individuals within firms manage these logics. Environmental managers in particular face tensions in reconciling their firms’ commercial fortunes with demands for greater environmental responsiveness. We explore how institutional work enables environmental managers to respond to competing institutional logics. Drawing on repeated interviews with 55 firms, we find that environmental managers face competition between a market-based logic and an emerging environmental logic. We show that some environmental managers embed the environmental logic alongside the market logic through variations of creation and disruption, thus over time creating institutional change, which can result in blended logics. Others, however, pursue a strategy of status quo or disengagement through maintenance or other forms of disruption, where the two logics coexist in principle but not in practice; instead the market logic retains its dominance. We discuss the implications of our findings for research.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Global Energy Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Business -- Environmental aspects , Social responsibility of business, Executives -- Attitudes -- Interviews | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Business Ethics Quarterly | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1052-150X | ||||||
| Official Date: | 27 February 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 27 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 263-291 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/beq.2016.65 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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