The institutional logic of the sustainable organisation: the case of a chocolate supply network

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how, and by whom, institutional logics are determined in the action sustainable organisation. authors analyse a supply chain network structure understand how multiple stakeholders' perceptions sustainability emerge into dominant logic diffuse across an organisational field. Design/methodology/approach Stakeholder theory provides novel insights emerging within chocolate network. Semi-structured interviews with 35 decision-makers were analysed alongside 269 company documents capture variations emergent logics. was mapped include 63 nodes 366 edges power mechanisms. Findings socio-economic organising principles organisation, their sources identified. Economic social revealed, yet dominance economic creates risks coexistence. Logics largely shaped pre-competitive activities, resource fitness collaborative clusters limits access for non-commercial actors. Research limitations/implications Powerful firms use structures concurrent inter-organisational relationships define conceptualisation restrict competing Originality/value This study contributes management (SSCM) through presenting as new conceptual framework identification sophisticated mechanisms hegemonic control opens research agendas.