Corporate sustainability is rife with tensions as firms seek to balance often divergent
economic, social, and environmental goals. To assess how tensions have been addressed …

Effective international cooperation is an important measure to mitigate climate change. The
purpose of this study is to clarify the research progress in the field of cooperation on …

Ecosystems—communities of interdependent yet hierarchically independent heterogeneous
participants who collectively generate an ecosystem value proposition—often emerge …

We trace the development of neo-institutional theory in Organization Studies from a marginal
topic to the dominant theory. We show how it has evolved from infancy, through adolescence …

Organizations turn to multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) to meet challenges that they
cannot handle alone. By tapping the resources of diverse stakeholders, MSPs develop the …

In this article, we theorize a novel approach to addressing the world's grand challenges
based on the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism and the sociological concept of …

The concept of an institutional field is one of the cornerstones of institutional theory, and yet
the concept has been stretched both theoretically and empirically, making consolidation of …

'Institutional work'has evolved from a concept introduced to capture a set of actions
described in institutional research, to a perspective on the relationship between institutions …

The second edition of this highly regarded book provides a concise and accessible
introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. It …

Approaches to paradox have deep historical roots. Eastern philosophers such as Lao Tzu
and Confucius described the world as a mystical interplay of interdependent contradictions …