What is it about?
To tackle sustainability, firms often use partnerships with organizations from different industries or societal sectors such as government and civil society. While partnerships show potential for firms to improve their sustainability performance, they not only lead to a potential to learn from diversity, but also to tensions due to a lack of unity between partners.
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Why is it important?
In partnerships for sustainability, this unity-diversity tension particularly manifests itself in different views of sustainability. This paper examines how this tension affects the sustainability performance of firms taking part in partnerships for sustainability in developing countries.
Perspectives
This tension is conceptualized as being the result of differences in organizational frames and institutional logics
Shoaib Ul-Haq
Karachi School of Business & Leadership
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This page is a summary of: Divide and rule: The effects of diversity and network structure on a firm's sustainability performance, Long Range Planning, April 2019, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2019.04.002.
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