TY - JOUR

T1 - The role of place in shaping responsibility logics

T2 - Revisiting the relation between place and business sustainability

AU - Hermelingmeier, Verena

AU - Augenstein, Karoline

AU - Palzkill, Alexandra

N1 - This research was conducted in the context of the 5‐year junior research project “UrbanUp” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Business Strategy and The Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

PY - 2023/9

Y1 - 2023/9

N2 - Place has been suggested to play a role for the sustainability orientation in business. A research gap exists in zooming in further on this relationship and in analysing how the organizational sense of place influences such an orientation. Applying the conceptual lens of institutional logics, we operationalize sustainability orientation as hybrid responsibility logic and analyse the role of place in the forming of such a logic. We present the results of a case study of businesses from a local sustainability network in the German city of Wuppertal and surroundings. Based on qualitative interview data, we found place to function as a coping mechanism in dealing with conflicting logics in the context of sustainability challenges. Across four heuristic types, we describe different roles of place in shaping responsibility logics: from providing the scenery for philanthropic engagement to being the nucleus for transformational efforts.

AB - Place has been suggested to play a role for the sustainability orientation in business. A research gap exists in zooming in further on this relationship and in analysing how the organizational sense of place influences such an orientation. Applying the conceptual lens of institutional logics, we operationalize sustainability orientation as hybrid responsibility logic and analyse the role of place in the forming of such a logic. We present the results of a case study of businesses from a local sustainability network in the German city of Wuppertal and surroundings. Based on qualitative interview data, we found place to function as a coping mechanism in dealing with conflicting logics in the context of sustainability challenges. Across four heuristic types, we describe different roles of place in shaping responsibility logics: from providing the scenery for philanthropic engagement to being the nucleus for transformational efforts.

KW - business sustainability

KW - institutional logics

KW - learning

KW - sense of place

KW - transformation

KW - typology

KW - Sustainability Science

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U2 - 10.1002/bse.3289

DO - 10.1002/bse.3289

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85140376672

VL - 32

SP - 3106

EP - 3118

JO - Business Strategy and the Environment

JF - Business Strategy and the Environment

SN - 0964-4733

IS - 6

ER -