Strategizing sustainability: The case of River City, Gothenburg

Brorström, Sara

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2014.08.005

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“…Their studies are related to organisational ecology [11], innovation [53], supply chain management [12,54], and social entrepreneurship [9]. Several PBS have been done on sustainability, especially on the transition to sustainability, which is an emerging area of research [3,55,56]; there are also those that examine sustainability within the field of strategy studies [2,38]. However, these studies are limited.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the practice-based theory can contribute to the understanding of the logic of sustainability. This aligns with several studies that divide sustainability into different organisational areas such as: strategy [2,38], supply chain management [39], and organisational learning [9].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Brorström [2] (p. 26), 'the concept of sustainability is powerful because no one opposes it'; thus, there are different lines of thinking in research on sustainability. Some studies take a broad view and examine society as a whole, whilst others take an organisational perspective in which sustainability corresponds to the triple bottom line (TBL).…”

Section: Sustainability As a Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This has not yet happened because there are divergences regarding how to think about sustainability and how to translate it into practice [2]. It is a challenge to manage the competing logics of sustainability that exist in the market [9], which is why adopting IL as a theoretical approach may help to clarify how the idea of sustainability is negotiated and collectively elaborated via leading social actors serving as the institutional entrepreneurs who interact with other actors in and around organisations.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within sustainability studies, the idea of sustainability relating to institutional, organisational and individual practices has been elaborated upon in several recent discussions [2,3]. However, they adhere to a broad idea of practices instead of contextualising it within social theory.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainability as Practice: Reflections on the Creation of an Institutional Logic

Silva

Figueiredo

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:Debates over social and organisational sustainability are constant because sustainability must stem from beliefs and goals that social and economic actors share. However, there is still a gap in the knowledge about how sustainability is practiced. In this theoretical paper, we use institutional logic (IL) to assume that the logic of sustainability can contribute to sustainability studies by explaining how practices are socially constructed and shared among actors. We consider sustainability as a practice by articulating IL through an understanding of practice-based studies (PBS). Sustainability as a practice facilitates the emergence of new organisational values and contributes to changes that support a new institutional logic. Hence, we define the institutional logic of sustainability (ILS) as a theoretical approach enabling comprehension of how sustainability can be observed and practiced through socially constructed actions and intentions. We highlight its relevance to deep sustainability studies and argue that by using different roles and meanings surrounding its performance, sustainability as a practice can facilitate studies about organisations.

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