Institutional hegemony of a logic within a cross-sector partnership
Publication date
2023-05-11
Document type
Forschungsartikel
Author
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Publisher
Sage
Series or journal
Business & Society
ISSN
Periodical volume
63
Periodical issue
1
First page
108
Last page
144
Peer-reviewed
✅
Part of the university bibliography
✅
Language
English
Abstract
Although some scholars propagate cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) as a panacea for addressing the grand challenges of the 21st century, scholars also acknowledge that this type of collaboration faces significant barriers since the institutional logics of partners such as business, civil society, and government potentially have contradicting interests and future visions. This inductive longitudinal case study on integrating skilled migrants into the German labor market examines the institutional work by which CSP members, particularly government actors, deliberately rein in contradictory logics to reproduce the dominant government logic, and in doing so, establish a high level of institutional coherence. In disclosing the processes by which the dominant logic maintains its hegemony, I contribute new insight into the institutional dynamics within government-sponsored CSPs. I identify various actions and I illuminate CSP tensions and dark sides.
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