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Searching for Sustainability-led Innovation: Reconciling the Unintended Consequences of Conflicting Organizational Logics PhD, 2013-2016 Stefan Hemel Supervisor: Dr Palie Smart
Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom T: +44 (0)7970 758124 or +44 (0)1234 751122 E: [email protected] or [email protected]
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• A competitive innovation climate and the scale of sustainability challenge requires higher levels of collaboration with unusual partners
• The circular economy is challenged to resolve multiple tensions – closing material loops, improving social conditions, and satisfying market demands.
• Innovating with in hybrid organizational forms creates sites for sustainability-led innovation, owing to different institutional logics.
• Understanding reconciliation strategies for sustainability-led innovations with hybrid organizational forms
• Paradox perspective allows for better understanding modes of reconciliation regarding sustainability aspirations
• Reconciliation strategies developed ultimately allow for faster delivery of novel ideas and opportunities in different hybrid organizational forms.
General aim
Identify paradoxical incidents and their reconciliation in search for sustainability-led innovations
Who is observed
Collaborating corporate partners involved with non-profit organizations searching for sustainability-led innovations
What is observed
Predominantly paradoxical tensions and their reconciliation
Method Critical incident technique
Data collection
Interviews with individuals involved in the for-profit/non-profit collaboration
Analysis Analytic induction and ideal type analysis
Reporting Descriptive and evaluative
RESEARCH CONTEXT Organizational search in hybrid organizational forms
NOVELTY AND CONTRIBUTION Reconciliation strategies for sustainability-led innovations
• Hybrid organizations are sustainability-driven and address social and environmental concerns predominantly in market settings
• In practice, paradoxical incidents are expected to occur during agenda setting and through problem-solving activities.
• Little empirical evidence how such paradoxes are reconciled.
RESEARCH QUESTION How do distinct institutional logics impact the search for
sustainability-led innovations?
• Systematic literature review brought together findings on organization-level search.
• Evidence suggests that search practices vary
• Organizational search is well developed in inter-firm organizational contexts, but less so in cross-sector contexts
• Literature review on institutional logic revealed that different firms are influenced by distinct sets of institutional systems
• Evidence suggests that material and symbolic practices shape a firms’ institutional logic
• Paradoxes and tensions occur as conflicts when logics recombine
LITERATURE REVIEW Organizational Search and
Institutional Logic
METHODOLOGY Critical Incident Technique9
• Different institutional logics with distinct aims in hybrid organizational forms are suspected to create different types of conflicting paradoxes • Hybridization or hybridity is a key construct in relation to conflicts and tensions • Overcoming insurgent logics through appropriate reconciliation strategies impact learning and innovation • Sustainability-led innovations supports transition towards a circular economy
EXPECTED FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS Reconciliation strategies support faster innovation searches towards a circular economy
Organizational Search
Sustainability-led
innovation
Industrial Sustainability
Social/Eco Innovation
CSR and Sustainability
Institutional logic A1
Organizational structures and symbols - Organizational purpose
- Search strategies and routines
Search aspirations2,3
•New business model
•Better performance measurement
•Search opportunities for sustainability
•Pooling resources and routines
Features3
•Broad/narrow search
•Local/distant search
Paradoxical tensions4 • Identity •Performing •Learning •Coordinating
Search outcomes2,3 •Discovered innovation opportunities for sustainability
•Reformulated problems/opportunities
•New designs (of existing strategies and routines)
•Solution alternatives (Resource redistribution) Reconciliation1,5
•Replacement •Blending •Segregation •Assimilation •Elaboration •Expansion •Contraction •Other mechanisms6
Institutional logic B1
Organizational structures and symbols - Organizational purpose
- Search strategies and routines
Hybrid organizational form5,6,7,8
CONCEPTUAL MODEL Paradox reconciliation in hybrid organizational forms