From Policy-Practice to Means-Ends Decoupling in Organizations: A Systematic Review and Paths for Future Research

Jabbouri, Rachid; Schneckenberg, Dirk; Truong, Yann

doi:10.7202/1088440ar

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“…Institutional theory posits that organizations conform to forces in their institutional environment in order to gain legitimacy, improve their social image and improve their competitive position. Nevertheless, their internal policies and practices may not be actually observed-a phenomenon identified as policy-practice decoupling (Jabbouri et al, 2019). This divide between the proclaimed and the practiced occurs because it serves the interests of powerful executives and leaders and preserves their discretion over the allocation of resources (Westphal and Zajac, 2001, p. 206); it may also be the result of avoiding compliance costs (Kingston and Caballero, 2009).…”

Section: Discussion Of Results and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, disclosure comes as a response to the "public expectations regarding organizational transparency" (Wehmeier and Raaz, 2012, p. 339), which is equated with sharing of information (Albu and Flyverbom, 2019). The coercive pressure refers to "the force of laws and regulations regarding CSR and the dissemination of information" (Cubilla-Montilla et al, 2020, p. 1184; therefore, organizations disclose their information in order to evade control, monitoring, and sanctions (Jabbouri et al, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Decoupled Relationship Between CSR Bank Disclosures and SME Financing: A Case Study of Alpha Banks in Lebanon

Mohamad,

Khalil

2024

IJEBA

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Purpose: Despite Lebanon having a burgeoning banking industry across the MENA region, the banks social impact on the society has largely remained unassessed. Based on institutional theory, this study explores the practice of corporate social responsibility of Alpha banks in Lebanon and investigates its association with their disclosed numbers of small and medium enterprises (SME) financing. Design/Methodology/Approach: Using qualitative content analysis based on the framework of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), CSR and SME scores were inferred and then regressed. Findings: A negative relationship was established between the two scores suggest that Alpha banks in Lebanon exhibit a decoupling relationship between their policies and practices due mainly to the lack of regulatory coercive pressures while conforming to the mimetic and normative pressures. Practical Implications:The research results may assist SMEs in this sense by reshaping their considerations of the available financing tools in order to achieve their objectives. Originality/Value: The use of institutional theory in management research has advanced the understanding of organizational practice of adopting new strategies to sustain organizational development.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decoupled Relationship Between CSR Bank Disclosures and SME Financing: A Case Study of Alpha Banks in Lebanon

Mohamad,

Khalil

2024

IJEBA

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“…Based on extensive literature reviews (Bromley and Powell, 2012; Jabbouri et al. , 2022), the literature has recently identified a second form of decoupling with particular empirical evidence in sustainability research (Stål and Corvellec, 2022; Wijen, 2014).…”

Section: Decoupling Accusations Reflecting the Current Legitimacy Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Based on extensive literature reviews (Bromley and Powell, 2012;Jabbouri et al, 2022), the literature has recently identified a second form of decoupling with particular empirical evidence in sustainability research (St al and Corvellec, 2022;Wijen, 2014). This line of scholarship argues that, because of extended public scrutiny and pressure, established routines of policy-practice decoupling are complemented and replaced by means-ends decoupling.…”

Section: Decoupling Accusations Reflecting the Current Legitimacy Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Overcoming the “blame game” in strategic climate communication: from decoupling accusations toward an arena-spanning agenda

Krämer,

Winkler

2023

JCOM

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PurposeThe climate crisis presents a global threat. Research shows the necessity of joint communication efforts across different arenas—media, politics, business, academia and protest—to address this threat. However, communication about social change in response to the climate crisis comes with challenges. These challenges manifest, among others, in public accusations of inconsistency in terms of hypocrisy and incapability against self-declared change agents in different arenas. This increasingly turns public climate communication into a “blame game”.Design/methodology/approachStrategic communication scholarship has started to engage in this debate, thereby acknowledging climate communication as an arena-spanning, necessarily contested issue. Still, a systematic overview of specific inconsistency accusations in different public arenas is lacking. This conceptual article provides an overview based on a macro-focused public arena approach and decoupling scholarship.FindingsDrawing on a systematic literature review of climate-related strategic communication scholarship and key debates from climate communication research in neighboring domains, the authors develop a framework mapping how inconsistency accusations of hypocrisy and incapacity, that is, policy–practice and means–ends decoupling, manifest in different climate communication arenas.Originality/valueThis framework creates awareness for the shared challenge of decoupling accusations across different climate communication arenas, underscoring the necessity of an arena-spanning strategic communication agenda. This agenda requires a communicative shift from downplaying to embracing decoupling accusations, from mutual blaming to approval of accountable ways of working through accusations and from confrontation to cooperation of agents across arenas.

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“…As this study has shown, despite deploying significant resources, organizations nowadays continue to face difficulties in balancing political-management tensions. The phenomenon of means-ends decoupling is critical in unraveling the larger phenomenon of institutional decoupling [27,[81][82][83]. As we have seen, the balance between incentives and deterrents for action is not always an easy task.…”

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The Impact of Institutional Innovation on a Public Tender: The Case of Madrid Metropolitan Forest

Muñoz

Urteaga

Chaparro

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Land

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The introduction of forests in cities has been an observable trend in recent years, with planned forest management projects proliferating around the world. The fact that many urban forests in the public space are traditionally managed by top-down bureaucratic procedures and guided by expert knowledge raises questions about whether green areas should follow the same management approach as other urban infrastructures, such as mobility infrastructures, or whether they should explore a collaborative approach designed to engage diverse stakeholders. This article examines the challenges of innovating in urban forests, changing the management rules that may limit participatory and deliberative processes to support decision-making. In particular, we analyzed how introducing a co-creation stage impacted the traditional competitive public tender procedure in the Madrid Metropolitan Forest project, using the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. Results showed that the costs and benefits of innovation differ among involved actors, generating unintended deterrent effects for experimentation. To mitigate these decoupling effects, we suggest a strategic design of working rules and updating the shared incentive to move from a competitive and transactional logic to a more collaborative and co-creative form of connection.

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From Policy-Practice to Means-Ends Decoupling in Organizations: A Systematic Review and Paths for Future Research

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Decoupled Relationship Between CSR Bank Disclosures and SME Financing: A Case Study of Alpha Banks in Lebanon

Decoupled Relationship Between CSR Bank Disclosures and SME Financing: A Case Study of Alpha Banks in Lebanon

Overcoming the “blame game” in strategic climate communication: from decoupling accusations toward an arena-spanning agenda

The Impact of Institutional Innovation on a Public Tender: The Case of Madrid Metropolitan Forest

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