Adopters build bridges: Changing the institutional logic for more sustainable cities. From action to workset to practice

Weisenfeld, Ursula; Hauerwaas, Antoniya

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2018.02.015

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“…As it became increasingly popular, the number of issues analysed through the institutional logics lens has grown enormously, ranging from topics as diverse as mutual funds (Lounsbury, 2002), health care organizations (Scott et al, 2000), Spanish manufacturing firms (Greenwood, Díaz, Li, & Lorente, 2010), Bolivian microfinance organizations (Battilana & Dorado, 2010), French cuisine (Rao, Monin, & Durand, 2003), cities (Weisenfeld & Hauerwaas, 2018) and medical education (Dunn & Jones, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It effectively presents a pervasive domain with material and symbolic patterns that offer meaning to some social and societal phenomena. The environmental logic is about caring for the commons and future generations, connecting humans with the natural environment, a human–ecosphere symbiosis as a socio-ecological ecosystem, as well as renewability and sustainability (Ansari, Wijen, & Gray, 2013; Mitzinneck & Besharov, 2019; Weisenfeld & Hauerwaas, 2018). It resonates with arguments of breaking down ‘the age-old distinction between nature and society, between natural history and human history’ (Hoffman, 2019), making the environmental logic actually a societal one.…”

Section: Reflections On Four Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Engaging with Grand Challenges: An Institutional Logics Perspective

Gümüşay

Claus²,

Amis

2020

Organization Theory

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The institutional logics perspective has the explanatory power and potential to further contribute to our understanding of some of the most pressing societal concerns of our time. In this article, we develop the logics perspective along four analytical dimensions – macro-level positioning, contextuality, temporality and value plurality – which, we argue, can be leveraged to research and address grand challenges. We elaborate the currency of these dimensions in the context of the grand challenge of climate change. In doing so, we demonstrate the overall value of a logics perspective for engaging grand challenges.

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Section: Looking Back To Move Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Reflections On Four Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging with Grand Challenges: An Institutional Logics Perspective

Gümüşay

Claus²,

Amis

2020

Organization Theory

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“…Wakkee, van der Sijde, Vaupell, and Ghuman (2019) consider the institutional entrepreneurship of universities that enable sustainable entrepreneurship by helping to reduce the liabilities of smallness for new firms. Weisenfeld and Hauerwaas' (2018) focus is on the role of action and practice ‘worksets’ in changing institutional logic to enhance urban sustainable development. Their study involves the identification of local adopters of the novel logic that might diffuse the new worksets (in institutional language, these adopters are ‘carriers’ of the emerging institutional logic).…”

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confidence: 99%

Institutional entrepreneurship and permaculture: A practice theory perspective

Genus

Iskandarova

Brown³

2021

Bus Strat Env

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Permaculture is a growing but little researched phenomenon emphasising care for the environment, equity, fair treatment of people and working with—and not against—nature. It thus represents a potential alternative to business as usual, capable of addressing fundamental challenges posed by human‐made climate change. The paper examines a previously ignored site of entrepreneurship by taking a practice perspective, exploring connections between the practice and growth of permaculture and institutional entrepreneurship. It assesses practice‐related and institutional factors affecting the start‐up and operation of permaculture enterprises in the United Kingdom. The study maps and surveys UK Permaculture Association members who have started up their own business and reports on qualitative data from personal interviews with twenty of them. Data analysis employs NVivo software and involves thematic analysis pertaining to the practice, institutional biographies and institutional portfolios of permaculture entrepreneurs. The findings show the importance of permaculture activists' institutional biographies and institutional portfolios to the start‐up and operation of permaculture enterprises and for shaping permaculture‐related practice. The contribution of the paper lies in how it balances attention to individual agency with subfield‐specific, organisational field and macrosocial factors in understanding ‘beyond profit’ entrepreneurship.

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“…Our work should contribute to an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms and the potential of CE. We propose a transformative agenda for entrepreneurship and innovation for economic and social change in Europe and elsewhere that involves engagement with communities of citizens and shared knowledge creation (Weisenfeld & Hauerwaas, 2018). Figure 2 provides for a diagrammatic configuration of our conceptualisation.…”

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Citizen Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Picture of the Inclusion, Integration and Engagement of Citizens in the Entrepreneurial Process

Mitra

Sokołowicz

Weisenfeld

et al. 2020

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economie

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This conceptual and exploratory article aims to present a rationale for the engagement of citizens with the process and practice of, and research on new civic forms of entrepreneurship. We argue that this form of citizen engagement could enable a better alignment of entrepreneurial initiatives with economic, social and community priorities, and to address issues of global significance of local interest in uncertain environments. To this end, we posit that engaging citizens in the entrepreneurial process could facilitate agency at the collective level of people with their rights, duties and responsibilities, to identify, participate in and govern with existing institutions, in meaningful economic and social activity in defined spatial environments. Our normative understanding of entrepreneurial process involves the creation of business, social and public enterprises, the formation of which is led by entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are of course citizens of specific nation states, but their endeavours do not necessarily warrant the participation of the wider community of citizens in the entrepreneurial process beyond their receiving function as users of goods and services. We consider whether pro-active engagement in a variety of ways, as nurtured in the practice of Citizen Science or Citizen Economics projects, could strengthen the profile and substance of entrepreneurship to resolve critical economic, social and environmental concerns of our times. We use the concept of the ‘commons’ and collective efficacy to argue for an understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation as a social good. We argue that Citizen Entrepreneurship (CE) is able to create new forms of collective organisation and governance, and derive economic and social value by addressing local issues arising from wide-spread phenomena such as climate change, ecological and environmental challenges, inequality, social polarisation, populism, migration and the gradual erosion of democratic institutions. To do so, citizens need to develop capabilities for engagement in the entrepreneurship process, especially when traditional public and market institutions fail to satisfy their existential needs. Indeed, active engagement could lead to the achievement of capabilities for well-being and fulfilling lives which go beyond the acquisition of skills and competencies necessary to pursue a vocation or a career. We refer to and interpret three examples of collective entrepreneurial activity in different urban environments in European countries as models of CE highlighting what we see as a growing trend in the entrepreneurial substance of the ‘urban commons’. We work towards the creation of a conceptual model with which to develop an understanding of a unique formulation of entrepreneurship.

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Adopters build bridges: Changing the institutional logic for more sustainable cities. From action to workset to practice

Cited by 28 publications

References 61 publications

Engaging with Grand Challenges: An Institutional Logics Perspective

Engaging with Grand Challenges: An Institutional Logics Perspective

Institutional entrepreneurship and permaculture: A practice theory perspective

Citizen Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Picture of the Inclusion, Integration and Engagement of Citizens in the Entrepreneurial Process

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