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From Animosity to Affinity: The Interplay of Competing Logics and Interdependence in Cross‐Sector Partnerships
Author(s) -
Ashraf Naeem,
Ahmadsimab Alireza,
Pinkse Jonatan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of management studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.398
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1467-6486
pISSN - 0022-2380
DOI - 10.1111/joms.12273
Subject(s) - general partnership , context (archaeology) , complementarity (molecular biology) , business , resource (disambiguation) , resource dependence theory , industrial organization , economics , microeconomics , computer science , paleontology , computer network , genetics , finance , biology
Drawing on and extending institutional logics and resource dependence theories, this paper posits that for cross‐sector partnerships to survive, organizations need to share compatible institutional logics, but depend less on each other's resources. Asymmetrical cross‐sector partnerships may lead to a breakup if organizations are forced to operate under incompatible institutional logics. The findings of this study show that the challenges posed by incompatible logics of partners could be mitigated by the degree of resource interdependence between organizations. Capturing the effects of context and transactions on the actors’ strategic behaviour, the findings, based on a dataset of project‐level partnership ties between 1312 organizations in the carbon‐offset market, support these hypotheses. The paper concludes by discussing implications of organizations' responses to keep acting under or reinterpreting existing institutional logics in asymmetrical cross‐sector relationships.