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Burke, Gary Thomas, Arora, Bimal, Jyoti, Divya, Omidvar, Omid and Pyrko, Igor (2022) Working in the gaps : exploring the strategy work of accomplished sustainability professionals. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022 (1). doi:10.5465/ambpp.2022.12933abstract ISSN 0065-0668.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2022.12933abstract
Abstract
This study explores how experienced sustainability professionals perform strategy work to integrate sustainability into business strategies and processes. Drawing on in-depth interviews and research on strategy-as-practice, sustainability, and paradox, we bring to light how divergent frames and competing temporalities conjointly work against sustainability integration. We develop a theoretical model that explains how sustainability professionals use persistent optimal cyclical stretching to navigate these barriers and integrate sustainability into businesses. We show that cyclical stretching constitutes an essential form of strategy work that requires sustainability professionals to continuously and judiciously open and stretch others’ cognitive frames, temporal horizons and practice domains before cementing gains. By unpacking the complex process of cyclical stretching, the study offers new insights into the hard-fought strategy work involved in realizing sustainability transitions and draws attention to how divergent temporal orientations are central to the study of sustainability paradoxes and tensions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Academy of Management Proceedings | ||||||
| Publisher: | Academy of Management | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0065-0668 | ||||||
| Official Date: | August 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 2022 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.5465/ambpp.2022.12933abstract | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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