The role of place in shaping responsibility logics: Revisiting the relation between place and business sustainability

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