Abstract This paper explains the institutional logics of academia, and practitioners within industry government, as well alignment misalignment that occurs when these actors collaborate. is achieved by building on theories logics, whilst conducting an explorative case study a circular economy cluster from Tampere Region Finland. offers three main contributions: First, convergence divergence ind...

Throughout human affairs and even in mathematics, science, and engineering, there are two logics that are dual to one another (series-parallel duality). Albert Hirschman investigates the two logics as the parallel-oriented logic of exit and the series-oriented logic of commitment, loyalty, and voice. Economics focuses almost exclusively on the logic of exit so that all questions of institutiona...

The academic literature largely acknowledges participation as a key condition for the successful upgrading of informal settlements. However, how individual participative actions different actor groups and reactions dwellers combine to influence project outcomes processes has not been studied. This article posits that combinations presence or absence collaborative interactions between other acto...

Grand Challenges are complex issues that require collaborative innovation among heterogeneous actors who draw upon contradictory institutional logics. While existing literature shows how social enterprises and individual organizations reconcile tensions between economic environmental logics, scholars know less about when a broad set of adopt practices priorities balance values. This article exp...

Abstract This book chapter takes an institutional perspective on competing logics in global markets concerned with sustainability values and how market actors the form of buyers sellers attempt to solve these conflicting situations. We do this by identifying contexts aiming for values, together techniques navigating organizational field studied. As empirical illustration, we use a case study tw...