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Food companies are central actors in driving sustainability transformations at the interface of production and consumption. Still, only limited attention has been directed to how sustainability-related meanings are being created within various food industry organizations. In this article, we explore the characteristics of the sustainability sensemaking and -giving processes among food companies and analyze how these processes influence sustainability-related transformations of current foodways. Our analysis is based on qualitative data (transcripts and notes) from interviews with managers from 15 Finnish food companies. By using organizational sensemaking literature, we shed light on the companies’ cultural talk and social meaning creations of sustainability. Our findings indicate that food companies’ sustainability sensemaking is an intra- and inter-organizational, social process occurring between the individual and organizational spheres of the organizations. Food companies act as sensegivers, as they actively communicate with stakeholders to achieve the position of a knowledgeable sustainability forerunner. Sustainability has been normalized in the talk and action of food companies, but the discursive space offered by them is limited to weak sustainability perspectives. While socio-material transgressions of current foodways may emerge, we argue that a shift from communicating and commercializing sustainability to a focus on ecological material aspects and ecological sensemaking is essential for transforming foodways towards strong sustainability.

Sustainable development has been an important policy goal for the international community for over three decades. Still, the state of the planet continues to worsen. This conceptual article considers the failure largely a result of structural obstacles and the so-called weak sustainability discourse, popularized by the Brundtland report and manifested today in The 2030 Agenda. The article adopts a strong sustainability perspective for examining structural distances between actors and the consequences of their acts. We argue that these impede responsible action and that policy should aim to reduce or eliminate distances in the four dimensions of space, time, functions and relations. The article concludes by suggesting Strongly Sustainable Development Goals, which could help transitioning humanity towards sustainability, lower the anthropogenic environmental impact on the planet, and enable the continuity of diverse life on Earth.

Non-technical summaryThe industrial food system is widely considered to be unsustainable due to its undesired climate and health effects. One proposed alternative to these problems is a more local system of food provisioning. This means involving individuals, households, and communities in growing and acquiring edibles, like vegetables and other food stuff. This study based on a literature review found that food self-provisioning practitioners are mainly driven by health concerns and less by reasoning linked to the environment, like climate change adaptation and mitigation. We propose that the potential of food self-provisioning is underutilised in developing the sustainability of food systems. Technical summaryIn this article, we review and analyse the literature and concept of 'food self-provisioning' in order to understand its potential as a response to contemporary challenges. The focus of the study is on investigating the meanings related to environmental problems, particularly climate change, and issues of health. Firstly, we show how food self-provisioning is conceptualised vis-a-vis health and the environment; and secondly, what the (potential) implications of food self-provisioning to interlinked human and non-human health and beyond are. Based on the conducted literature review (n = 44), meanings of food self-provisioning are found to connect primarily to issues of human health and only secondarily to environmental questions, and even more marginally to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Our analysis cuts across the scales of households, communities, cities, and regions, including their diverse geographies, and hereby also comments on the questions of multilevel organising of self-provisioning, and what the notion of 'self' implies in this context. Social media summaryThe potential of food self-provisioning is underutilised in developing the sustainability of food systems.

Research about digital immortality has grown in recent years, predominantly focusing on either the social effects of forms of digital immortalisation or on the available technologies. Few studies, however, adopt a clear sociological focus that remains attentive to the ontological dimension of digital immortality. Adopting a future-oriented perspective, this article contributes to the sociological study of digital immortality by introducing the concept of the Virtual Deceased Person (VDP), a speculative artefact that convincingly simulates the mannerisms and character traits of a deceased person, allowing them to operate as social actors posthumously and preserve the human social bond. The article draws on anthropological and microsocial theory to characterise the VDP as a persona of the dead given agency and embodiment by future thanatechnologies. By positioning the concept within the digital immortality discourse and expanding the scope of the social bond to the study of digital immortality, I portray the VDP as a manifestation of posthumous personhood, arguing that it might facilitate preserving the social bond between the living and the dead throughout its creation process and its reintegration into the world of the living. I further discuss its implications for the emergence of a postmortal society of socially active, virtualised ancestors.

Currently, the tourism industry is not sustainable. It is responsible for about 5% of the global CO₂ emissions. Especially Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the tourism industry are lagging behind in their contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The main aim of my PhD thesis was to develop a deeper understanding of the antecedents of SME tourism entrepreneurs’ sustainable behaviour and their influence on sustainable behaviour. Currently, little is known about how values, both independently and at their intersection, motivations to become an entrepreneur, and motivations to act sustainably influence the sustainable behaviour of SME tourism entrepreneurs. My thesis adds some interesting insights to the current body of literature, which may prove relevant in nudging SME tourism entrepreneurs towards more and better sustainable behaviour. For example, we found that, without recognizing it as such, SME tourism entrepreneurs conduct numerous sustainability measures that add value to the social dimension of sustainability. Relations near to them, such as their employees, local suppliers, and local neighbourhood, are particularly important to them. Similarly, the biospheric values that SME tourism entrepreneurs hold should not be underestimated, as we observed that the amalgamated biospheric value became a prioritised value. Thus, communication around and nudging for sustainability and sustainability measures to be implemented should not only be construed around a gain frame but rather also include social and environmental aspects.

While the benefits of including local communities in multi-stakeholder initiatives have been acknowledged, their successful involvement remains a challenging process. Research has shown that large business interests are regularly over-represented and that local communities remain marginalized in the process. Additionally, little is known about how procedural fairness and inclusion can be managed and maintained during multi-stakeholder initiatives. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate how marginalized stakeholders, and local communities in particular, can be successfully involved during the course of a multi-stakeholder initiative. An action research approach was adopted where the first author collaborated with a social housing association on an initiative to involve the local community in the design and implementation of circular economy approaches in a low-income neighbourhood. This study contributes to the multi-stakeholder initiative literature by showing that the successful involvement of marginalized stakeholders requires the initiators to continuously manage a balance between uncertainty-certainty, disagreement-agreement and consensus- and domination-based management strategies. Furthermore, our study highlights that factors which are regularly treated as challenges, including uncertainty and disagreement, can actually play a beneficial role in multi-stakeholder initiatives, emphasizing the need to take a temporally sensitive approach. This study also contributes to the circular economy literature by showing how communities can play a bigger role than merely being consumers, leading to the inclusion of a socially oriented perspective which has not been recognized in the previous literature.The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10551-022-05252-5.

Integrating circularity in business strategy is difficult to achieve for companies as it requires impactful changes in core business processes. While research has focused on identifying key barriers, little is known about the organizational attributes that can assist businesses in integrating circularity in their strategies. The purpose of this study is to investigate the implications of organizational managers and network interactions for the integration of circularity in business strategy. Through using survey data from 627 SMEs (small- and medium-sized enterprises) in the Netherlands, this study shows that managers who interpret circularity as an opportunity can have a positive direct and indirect effect on the integration of circularity in a company’s strategy. The results furthermore highlight the importance of circular network interactions for the integration of circularity in business strategy. This article contributes to recent calls for more empirical research into the integration of circularity and offers relevant insights for companies aiming to integrate circularity.

This study investigates the impact of the alteration of the monolignol biosynthesis pathway on the establishment of thein vitro interaction of poplar roots either with a mutualistic ectomycorrhizal fungus or with a pathogenic root-knotnematode. Overall, the five studied transgenic lines downregulated for caffeoyl-CoA O-methyltransferase(CCoAOMT), caffeic acid O-methyltransferase (COMT), cinnamoyl-CoA reductase (CCR), cinnamyl alcoholdehydrogenase (CAD) or both COMT and CAD displayed a lower mycorrhizal colonisation percentage, indicating alower ability for establishing mutualistic interaction than the wild-type. The susceptibility to root-knot nematode infectionwas variable in the five lines, and the CAD-deficient line was found to be less susceptible than the wild-type. Wediscuss these phenotypic differences in the light of the large shifts in the metabolic profile and gene expression patternoccurring between roots of the CAD-deficient line and wild-type. A role of genes related to trehalose metabolism,phytohormones, and cell wall construction in the different mycorrhizal symbiosis efficiency and nematode sensitivitybetween these two lines is suggested. Overall, these results show that the alteration of plant metabolism caused by therepression of a single gene within phenylpropanoid pathway results in significant alterations, at the root level, in theresponse towards mutualistic and pathogenic associates. These changes may constrain plant fitness and biomass production,which are of economic importance for perennial industrial crops such as poplar., info:eu-repo/semantics/published

The making of sustainable economies calls for sufficiency in production and consumption. The discussion, however, lacks a shared understanding on what it means to operationalize sufficiency. In this article, we review and analyze the concept of sufficiency with a focus on its linkages to different economic scales (with a focus on micro- and macroeconomics) and economic actors (particularly consumers and producers). Altogether 307 articles were screened, resulting in a final data set of 94 peer-reviewed articles. In addition to the core assumption of ‘enoughness’, we found three premises describing the concept: (1) complementarity of capitals, (2) social metabolism, and (3) altruism. In the reviewed literature, sufficiency is understood as both an end in itself and a means for bringing consumption and production within ecological limits. By conducting the first systematic literature review on sufficiency, the study explicates a more integrated understanding of sufficiency and highlights the need to treat sufficiency across economic scales and actors. In future research, empirical work should be emphasized to grasp the contextual varieties in the operationalization of sufficiency.

The study of energy transitions and the assessment of their potential requires a holistic understanding of the context in which they take place, as the political institutions, economic dynamics, social practices, environmental conditions, and cultural frames condition which alternatives and pathways for the transition to take place are deemed as feasible and worthwhile. What makes the case of Cuba particularly relevant for the study of energy transitions is that, due to its 20th-century history and the emerging trends of the island country in the current century, it is uniquely positioned to reach a sustainable state which might be further propelled by undergoing a transition towards intermittent renewable sources at a national scale. This chapter provides an overview of the current Cuban context within which a transition towards renewable, intermittent sources of energy could occur. This is necessary because it helps identify structural challenges that would need to be managed and windows of opportunity that could be exploited to incite such a transition. This overview takes the form of a literature review of Cuban development in the 21st century, although references to previous events will be made when necessary for further contextualization. Non

This PhD thesis focuses on investigating how incumbent enterprises can assist in achieving societal sustainability. Societal sustainability is an increasingly adopted concept in both literature and practice and addresses how society can reach social, environmental and economic goals. Enterprises are central actors for achieving societal sustainability and can fulfil this role by engaging in corporate sustainability. Another approach enterprises can take to assist in achieving societal sustainability is by adopting circular principles, such as reuse, reduce and remanufacture, which can enable enterprises to close resource loops and keep them closed over time. However, in order to contribute to societal sustainability, enterprises have to make impactful changes and integrate the principles of corporate sustainability and the circular economy in their strategies. This requires new capabilities which are focussed on the generation, preservation and restoration of collective values in collaboration with diverse stakeholders. This PhD thesis therefore investigates how enterprises can interact and collaborate with diverse stakeholders and explores whether this can assist enterprises in integrating the principles of corporate sustainability and the circular economy in their strategies. The findings show that it is essential for enterprises to collaborate and interact with external stakeholders in the network, such as local communities and knowledge institutions, for both the integration of corporate sustainability and the circular economy. Furthermore, this PhD thesis highlights the importance of an early and active involvement of local communities in circular strategies and approaches, where a two-way communication between incumbent businesses, local communities and other stakeholders is crucial.

This research addresses the role of sustainable demand and psychological and cultural factors in the spatial concentration of sustainable SMEs. We analyze the spatial concentration of sustainable SMEs in the restaurant sector in the Netherlands. We argue that traditional agglomeration theories can partially explain spatial concentration of sustainable SMEs, but are not sufficient in explaining the sub-sector concentration of sustainable entrepreneurs. Demand, psychological and cultural factors could explain sub-sector concentration of sustainable restaurants. We use sustainable entrepreneurship theory to explain this difference. We analyze spatial concentration of sustainable SMEs in three ways. First, we investigate spatial concentration based on all individual locations of sustainable restaurants with an average nearest neighbor analysis. Second, we analyze spatial autocorrelation with use of the Moran’s I statistic. Finally, we map the clustering of sustainable restaurants with a Getis–Ord Gi* analysis. We use sustainable restaurants as a percentage of conventional restaurants in a region in the Netherlands. While controlling for conventional clustering, we find a single large cluster of sustainable restaurants. Arguably, this clustering is caused by a spatial variation of demand and individual psychological traits of sustainable entrepreneurs, which together represent a regional culture of sustainable entrepreneurship.

The restaurant business is highly unsustainable and the sector contributes to a large extent to environmental pollution. However, some restaurateurs have chosen a more sustainable cuisine. As food sustainability is a contested issue, we have considered several descriptions of food sustainability and have assessed how these are influenced by a passion for hospitality. Theoretically, the choice for sustainable food can be based on a passion for the hospitality business and a passion for sustainability. Surveys were used to gather data that were analysed using logistic and linear regression models. Findings suggest that some entrepreneurs claim to serve sustainable food, but do not. Others serve only one type of sustainable food, but not the other types. Interestingly, these groups also differ in their motivations for starting their restaurants. The choice to serve sustainable food is negatively influenced by entrepreneurial passion and positively by sustainability passion. Conventional restaurants have a passion for the hospitality industry, while the restaurants that serve sustainable food do not share that hospitality passion, but rather a passion for sustainability. Our research adds to the academic debate on the tensions that restaurateurs and entrepreneurs in general face in their different motivations.

Innovation contests are increasingly used by businesses as an instrument for open innovation to address sustainability related questions. However, according to the open innovation literature, one of the main pitfalls of this approach can be the mismatch between the solutions proposed by non-experts and the companies’ capabilities to implement such solutions. We introduce the concept of collaborative innovation contests – where companies actively collaborate with non-experts – as a way to address this mismatch. Through participant observations, we analyse the process of a sustainability-oriented collaborative innovation contest guided by design-thinking. Our results indicated that the combination of an open innovation contest and design thinking could, through the creation of constant feedback loops, lead to increased collaboration between the contests participants, the companies proposing a challenge, and other relevant stakeholders. However, our results also highlighted trade-offs between the innovativeness of ideas, the alignment of solutions with firm capabilities and the resources needed for collaborative innovation contests. We conclude that, through the involvement of different stakeholders, their ideas and perspectives, collaborative innovation contests are a useful approach to generate a comprehensive understanding of the sustainability challenges companies face.

This article argues that when attempting to extend the concept of affordances to encompass action possibilities characteristic of our sociocultural environments, a transactionally informed relational perspective—along the lines formulated by classical pragmatist thinkers (especially Dewey and Bentley but also Peirce and Mead)—proves useful. A transactional perspective helps to reveal the intimate conceptual connections between sociocultural affordances (SCAs) and agency: both are crucially about contextually defined goal-directed doings, and about learning to fluently master particular patterns of habits, skills, and sociocultural practices in culturally appropriate and socially feasible ways. The paper outlines first, critical issues in the conceptualization of SCAs; second, how the concept of SCAs also points towards a transactional conception of agency enactment; and third, how a transactional view helps to make sense of some of the apparently puzzling tensions and fringe areas between various conceptualizations of (sociocultural) affordances and agency.

Societal debates are often constructed through dichotomies influenced by various factors such as cognitive capabilities of individuals, culturally shaped valuation processes, underlying societal struggles for power and prestige, economic competition, technological changes or lock-ins and operation logic of the media and social media. Debates over emerging technologies of renewable energy provide an illustrative example of this polarisation. Based on national-level studies focusing on the development of the biogas sector in Finland, we identify ten pertinent dichotomies of renewable energy and discuss their implications for the transition towards a more sustainable energy system. The dichotomies include: producer vs. consumer, urban vs. rural, local vs. national, domestic vs. foreign, centralised vs. distributed, food vs. energy, environment vs. economy, traditional vs. innovative, long-term vs. short-term, and private vs. public. These diverse and deeply rooted dichotomies structure societal debate. In some cases they may encourage and guide critical thinking, but they may also hinder the renewing of the current energy behaviour and energy system. Societal capabilities that enable the bridging of different but inherently linked dichotomies are a key precondition of sustainable energy transition. peerReviewed

The aim of this research is to explore how social housing associations can introduce circular strategies and integrate social elements, next to ecological elements, within these strategies. In order to investigate this aim, this paper first explores the circular strategy options that can be adopted by housing associations. Thereafter, the paper explores how social elements can be integrated within these strategies via the establishment of relationships with communities in the network of housing associations. By performing an in-depth case study, we identified potential circular strategies for housing associations and indicate how community relationships could be established within these strategies. The findings highlight that community relationships in the vision formulation and activities involved in the execution of circular strategies may assist in creating synergies between the ecological aims of circular strategies and the perspectives and needs of communities. On the other hand, the results indicate that not establishing relationships with communities or only establishing relationships in the strategy outcomes may be detrimental to both community needs and the ecological aims of circular strategies. ? 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Sustainable entrepreneurs try to solve a sustainability problem with their company. They therefore try to achieve social, environmental and economic goals at the same time. It can be the case that these three goals are not congruent and lead to tensions. For example striving for social goals might reduce profit and vice versa. Such tensions can also lead to personal distress such as frustration or dissonance and can also prevent individuals from founding a sustainable enterprise in the first place. This thesis therefore looked at how sustainable entrepreneurs, as founders of their companies, deal with such tensions, with a focus on the cognitive strategies they use to do so. We find that especially future orientation and personal values (describing what we care about in life) determine whether individuals find it desirable and feasible to start a sustainable enterprise and through that also strengthen the intention to do so. Once they have founded their companies, sustainable entrepreneur seem to be able to draw on a strong confidence that they will be able to reach their sustainability goals. This strong confidence is partly due to the usage of multiple future oriented strategies such as roadmapping and setting milestones. This seems to help them to keep track of their various goals and find a balance between them.

Current approaches to sustainable urbanism follow a weak sustainability approach, which as-sumes technological and market-based solutions to sustainability problems in human settlements. This makes them inadequate from a sustainability perspective to both respect the sustainability perspective and to maintain critical natural capital in the long-term. Additionally, concern for the well-being of the cities’ inhabitants becomes a secondary issue. We argue that de-urban design and deurbanization offer a viable path for redesigning urban human settlements according to strong sustainability principles. This paper examines the potential of the deurbanization framework to regenerate cities and transform human settlements into permanent habitats that build harmonious relations between human beings and non-human natural elements. We first identify key principles of strong sustainability and deurbanization, and address their relevance for the design of human settlements. We synthesize concepts and practices into the deurbanization framework to establish what practices would constitute deurbanized human settlements, and we briefly illustrate how some of these practices would take place in a design-case study. Finally, we establish deurbaniza-tion as a strongly sustainable approach to redesigning cities because it views the human and non-human natural world as equally valuable and necessary for life to flourish.

This research looks at the motivates and values of owner-managers of micro and small-sized accommodations for entering into the accommodation business and implementing CSR measures in it. According to theory, it may either be because of self-enhancement motives, for self-transcendent motives, or a combination of the two. These different motives may lead to the entrepreneur implementing sustainability measures in his operations, only the extent and depth to which this is done depends on the underlying values of the person. Explorative semi-structured interviews with the owner-managers of micro and small-sized accommodations were carried out. Results show that indeed the primary reason for entrepreneurs to enter into business is for self-enhancement reasons. Notwithstanding, a number of entrepreneurs mention both self-enhancement and self-transcendence motives. Most entrepreneurs do not mention sustainability as part of their business goal, but have implemented several CSR measures. This goes from basic actions like LED lights and separating waste, until solar panels and waste prevention. When referring to sustainability, the entrepreneurs mostly explain it as actions that are good for the environment. Actions that are good for society are not seen as belonging to sustainability, even though the entrepreneur undertakes several actions that add value to it. Further research is needed to get a better understanding of the types of CSR measures that are implemented in their accommodations, and how this connects to the dominant values of the individual.

Despite environmental and social goals being identified as key objectives for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the literature has not provided an explanation of how these goals can be achieved alongside stable economic outcomes. Several researchers have argued that sustainability performance should be addressed through a process of constant adjustment, which can be facilitated by dynamic capabilities. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of integrative dynamic capabilities on the social, environmental and economic performance of SMEs. This study is among the first to investigate this effect and uses unique survey data from 297 SMEs in the Netherlands. The empirical results highlight the importance of external integrative dynamic capabilities for all three pillars of sustainability performance in SMEs. These findings contribute to the debate on the ability/inability of SMEs to balance social, environmental and economic objectives by integrating new insights from the dynamic capabilities literature. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Intentions have been identified as one of the main drivers of sustainable entrepreneurial opportunity recognition and ultimately activity. However, research has not provided sufficient explanation for how the inherent complexities of simultaneously generating social, environmental and economic value as well as considering the needs of future generations might influence the intention formation process of sustainable entrepreneurs. The aim of this study is therefore to investigate the impacts of values and future orientation on said intention formation process. This study uses structural equation modeling to quantitatively analyze an adapted model of the theory of planned behavior based on survey data of 407 students collected within two European countries. The empirical results highlight the importance of self-transcending values and future orientation to understand attitudes towards sustainable entrepreneurship. Attitudes and perceived behavioral control, in turn, positively influence intentions to become a sustainable entrepreneur. On a practical note, the results suggest that educational and other practitioners could stimulate sustainable entrepreneurial intentions through value activation strategies to raise attitudes. It is further recommended that, as a matter of policy, governmental programs should help strengthen subjective norms as a different route to stimulating intention formation.

Sustainable entrepreneurs can act as change agents in the transition to a more sustainable society. We analyze the role of sustainability problem recognition on sustainable opportunity recognition of entrepreneurs. We argue that sustainable opportunities originate from a social or ecological problem in the environment of the entrepreneur. Thus, an entrepreneur’s recognition of a problem is key in finding a solution. For entrepreneurs, this solution is a sustainable business opportunity. Their individual values provide a cognitive frame for problem recognition and are expected to have a mediated effect on opportunity recognition, through problem recognition. To analyze the relationship between problems, values and opportunities for sustainable development we collect new survey data of starting entrepreneurs and non-profits. The participants were enrolled in a crowdfunding campaign between 2015 and 2018. We found that biospheric values have a positive effect on the recognition of sustainability problems, while egoistic values have a negative effect. Recognition of sustainability problems has a positive effect on the recognition of sustainable business opportunities. Furthermore, the recognition of sustainability problems mediates the relationship between values and sustainable opportunity recognition. Entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship teachers and accelerators can use our findings to aid the sustainable opportunity recognition process, by successfully identifying social and ecological problems. We add to the sustainable opportunity recognition literature by providing a model of opportunity recognition as a problem-solving process.

In order to address the lack of attention to the social dimension of circular business models, this paper focusses on these models in the context of a social housing association. Due to their dominant social mission and strong ties with local communities, housing associations need to consider the social dimension of sustainability within circular business models. The first objective of this paper is to investigate the circular business models that can be adopted by housing associations and to categorize them in a set of archetypes. This paper recognizes that circular business models are not isolated but situated in networks in which linkages with communities may be highly important for housing associations. The second objective is therefore to investigate the important characteristics of linkages with communities within the networks in which the circular business models of housing associations are situated. Through an in-depth case study involving a grey literature investigation, 2 focus groups and 15 interviews, we found that circular business models in housing associations are likely to be decoupled from their social activities. The results highlighted that two-way linkages with communities may avoid decoupling and potentially lead to the emergence of a new set of socially inclusive circular business models.

Hybrid organisations face competing demands, such as the need for financial viability versus the solving of environmental or social problems. Paradox theory is increasingly used to explore how organisations striving for sustainability manage these tensions. Via action research and an abductive approach in the setting of a Dutch housing association, we analyse how managers take decisions when faced with sustainability paradoxes in the process of strategy change. With this paper, we offer two main contributions. Firstly, we identify the types of paradoxes emerging while designing and implementing a new sustainable strategy. Secondly, we propose a theory on the freezing effects of sustainability paradoxes on the decision making process. We conclude that, although the understanding of sustainability paradoxes can activate strategic change, they can also feed inertia while freezing decision making due to the conflicting identities characterising hybrid organisations.

Financiële en daarmee sociale ongelijkheid is een belangrijk neveneffect van de wijze waarop we de besturing van organisaties hebben ingericht. Deze sociale ongelijkheid brengt veel kosten met zich mee en is schadelijk voor de maatschappelijke stabiliteit. Een manier om deze ongelijkheid kleiner te maken, is door de besluitvormende macht in organisaties te delen met de medewerkers. Dit artikel toont met twee casussen hoe deze gedeelde besluitvorming, door middel van democratische stemronden, praktisch kan worden vormgegeven. Het artikel besluit met drie leidende principes voor gedeelde besluitvorming en een korte reflectie op de incorporatie van het ecologische belang in het besluitvormingsmodel.

In a time when the global economy continues to stutter, social justice and climate change mitigation simultaneously increase in urgency and complexity. In this context,existing organisations are put under pressure to display sustainable entrepreneurial behaviour,transforming their strategy to meet new social and environmental goals. This paper analyses the process of sustainable entrepreneurship in the context of existing hybrid organisations. We conducted extensive fieldwork at a Dutch housing association in transition. The case organisation set an ambitious climate mitigation target to be achieved by 2030 inducing a chain of organisational changes. At the same time, the strategy department is also dealing with a number of social challenges, among which a worrying increase of poverty, an ageing target group, and a rising refugees’ requests for housing. We offer a set of new propositions to underpin the mechanism fostering and contrasting the sustainable entrepreneurship process. One key finding is that some of the mechanisms that fuel organisational inertia in its conventional (negative)connotation, might be the ones enabling positive long-term social and environmental change.

Our study examines how post-formation partner change influences alliance performance. Combining insights from currently diverging streams of research, we identify two mechanisms underlying the partner change – alliance performance relationship (i.e. resource alignment and coordination misalignment) and study two alliance characteristics (i.e. technological complexity and equity concentration) as core contingencies of such relationship. Using unique, panel data from 101 joint ventures in the wind energy industry for the period 2000-2015, we find robust support for a negative moderating effect of technological complexity on the partner change – alliance performance relationship. Our findings also show that certain configurations of alliance characteristics can strengthen the positive performance effect of partner change. We contribute to the strategic alliance literature by offering an integrative perspective on post-formation partner changes that allows for a richer understanding of their implications for alliance performance.