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University Sustainability and Institutional Complexity
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SSHRC IDG awarded 2018: This proposed grant aims to develop a systematic understanding of how the sustainability logic and its associated practices (e.g., sustainability offices, recycling, becoming more energy efficient and clean, buying local food etc.) have spread across North American universities. To understand the development of university sustainability practices, the PI will draw on the institutional logics perspective (Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury, 2012). Given the variety of stakeholders associated with universities, they are prime empirical sites for the study of institutional complexity. First, the PI will draw on neoinstitutional theory (e.g., Greenwood et. al, 2017) to study how the sustainability logic and associated practices differentially emerge and develop at the interstices of plural institutional logics across North American Universities. Here, the overarching research question is: how do plural institutional logics shape the development of sustainability practices across Universities? The PI will also develop a configurational approach to the analysis of institutional logics. The PI will explore how different configurations of logics enable and constrain the development of a new sustainability practices as actors blend, prioritize, or otherwise accommodate different kinds of institutional logics. The project adopts both qualitative and quantitative methods including fieldwork, interviews, case studies and the production of a detailed university-level database.
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- 2018-01-02
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- ©️Lounsbury, Michael. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2022.