Business School Legitimacy and the Challenge of Sustainability: A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Institutional Decoupling
Business School Legitimacy and the Challenge of Sustainability: A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Institutional Decoupling
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商学院的合法性与可持续性的挑战：制度脱钩的模糊集分析
DOI：
10.5465/amle.2015.0307
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
A. Millington
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作者：
Annie C. Snelson;Johanne Grosvold;A. Millington
商学院在应对可持续发展议程方面面临着越来越大的制度压力，特别是因为金融危机凸显了教育商业领袖的必要性，这些商业领袖所从事的问题超出了盈利的必要性。尽管商学院越来越多地表示，它们参与了可持续性等全球性问题，但也有人建议，它们应将所信奉的承诺与实践脱钩。商学院可能只是表明这种变化正在发生，而不是制定实际的变化，并将可持续性纳入组织活动。我们研究了商学院将其可持续发展政策与实践脱钩的关键组织和战略条件。我们采访了英国40位院长。商学院和分析数据使用模糊集（FS）定性比较分析（FS/QCA），一种方法，调查个人条件的组合。我们发现证据表明紧耦合与...
Business schools face growing institutional pressure to respond to the sustainability agenda, especially since the financial crisis highlighted the need to educate business leaders who engage with issues beyond a profit imperative. Although business schools increasingly signal their engagement with global issues, such as sustainability, there are also suggestions that they decouple their espoused commitments from their practices. Rather than institute actual change and include sustainability in organizational activities, business schools may merely indicate that such change is taking place. We examine the key organizational and strategic conditions under which business schools decouple their sustainability policies from their practices. We draw on interviews with 40 deans of U.K. business schools and analyze the data using fuzzy set (fs) qualitative comparative analysis (fs/QCA), a method that investigates combinations of individual conditions. We find evidence to suggest that tight coupling is associated...