Means versus Ends in Opaque Institutional Fields: Trading off Compliance and Achievement in Sustainability Standard Adoption

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The Rise of Socially Responsible Investment Funds: The Paradoxical Role of the Financial Logic (2019, background): “Decomposing logics into means and ends, either explicitly or implicitly, is a fairly common practice in the institutional literature (Friedland and Alford, 1991; Pache and Santos, 2010; Durand and Jourdan, 2012; Wijen, 2014).”
Willing and Able: A General Model of Organizational Responses to Normative Pressures (2017, background): “, 2013) and lobby to limit regulatory constraints to bare minimum requirements of doing business (McDonnell & Werner, 2016; Werner, 2015), we posit that conformity characterizes voluntary actions that constitute a response to social and normative expectations not (yet) codified in standards and law,”
Harnessing Wicked Problems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships (2018, background): “This requires creating incentives for standard adopters, including material benefits, such as price premiums and selective supply chains, and social legitimation (Wijen 2014).”
A decoupling perspective on circular business model implementation: Illustrations from Swedish apparel (2018, background): “Organizations then start to adopt and implement various practices, not because they fulfill organizational ends, or for that matter socioeconomic ones (Dick, 2015; Wijen, 2014), but because they are aligned with strongly rationalized rules, norms and beliefs that cannot be ignored.”