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When goals lead them astray: institutional logics configurations and clean-tech start-up resilience
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This paper examines how configurations of institutional logics—market, sustainability, and profession—shape the resilience of clean-tech start-ups when facing diverse adversities. Drawing on institutional and resilience frameworks, we conceptualize resilience not as a uniform organizational capacity, but as context-dependent, varying with both the firm’s logic configuration and the nature of the adversity encountered. Clean-tech ventures, inherently exposed to multiple and often conflicting logics, offer a relevant context to explore these dynamics. Using a mixed-method approach that combines process tracing and coincidence analysis, the study identifies causal mechanisms linking specific logic configurations to resilience outcomes across financial, regulatory, and social adversities. Preliminary insights indicate that different logic configuration led startup to use different responses to an adversity leading to different resilience outcomes. The study contributes to theory-building on institutional complexity and resilience, and informs investors and policymakers seeking to prevent avoidable clean-tech start-up failures. |
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