The role of place in shaping responsibility logics: Revisiting the relation between place and business sustainability
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In: Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 32, No. 6, 09.2023, p. 3106-3118.
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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 -