Hybridity of Bioeconomy: Institutional Logics Shaping Goals and Performances in Bio-sector Hybrids
Vikstedt, Elina (2020)
Vikstedt, Elina
2020
Master's Degree Programme in Leadership for Change
Johtamisen ja talouden tiedekunta - Faculty of Management and Business
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2020-10-07
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202008276714
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202008276714
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Transition to more sustainable circular bioeconomy is a wicked problem that requires collaboration across sectors and different disciplines. Hybrid ideal is that by collaborating organizations can innovate and create value beyond capabilities and resources of any single entity, and this idea has been widely adopted both in public and private agendas and strategies. The present study aims at capturing public, private, and third sector interfaces and institutional complexity of multiorganisational collaboration through the notion of hybridity. Hybrid organizations are organizations that incorporate multiple institutional logics, have diverse ownership structures, combine public and private sources of funding, and display varying forms of social and financial control.
The present study aims at understanding hybridity and interplay of institutional logics in macro-level by examining bioeconomy as an organizational field. This study also aims at exploring micro-foundations of institutionally complex environments by exploring how institutional logics of different actors’ shape, challenge and enable goal setting and impact performance systems in boundary crossing hybrid arrangements. Empirical context in this study is bioeconomy in Finland. Research employed inductive grounded theory approach. Primary data was collected through semi-structured modified Delphi method interview through purposive sampling of experts with knowledge and experience of work in bio-sector hybrid organisations. Altogether eleven (11) bio-sector experts representing different organisations and sectors were interviewed for the study.
Institutional logics of capitalist market, environmental protection, scientific research and regional development are deeply entangled in bioeconomy, and both challenge and complement each other. Based on interview results, selective coupling and de-coupling of institutional logics were common approaches when dealing with divergent, sometimes conflicting logics. Experts described partner profiling and selection processes that were designed to ensure the combability of partners. Common challenges in combining different institutional logics were related to differences in organizational culture and time horizons, lack of motivation, disputes in distribution of credit, and territorialism that results from competitive tensions between the partners. Based on interview results, external influence plays a major role in resource-intensive innovation work and steers the way logics interact with each other. Performance systems should ideally reflect multiplicity of institutional logics present in the arrangement, but in practice they were often formulated to support accountability towards the funding body. Due to the small sample size, these results are not generalizable but offer in-depth insights and potential points of departure for future studies.
The present study aims at understanding hybridity and interplay of institutional logics in macro-level by examining bioeconomy as an organizational field. This study also aims at exploring micro-foundations of institutionally complex environments by exploring how institutional logics of different actors’ shape, challenge and enable goal setting and impact performance systems in boundary crossing hybrid arrangements. Empirical context in this study is bioeconomy in Finland. Research employed inductive grounded theory approach. Primary data was collected through semi-structured modified Delphi method interview through purposive sampling of experts with knowledge and experience of work in bio-sector hybrid organisations. Altogether eleven (11) bio-sector experts representing different organisations and sectors were interviewed for the study.
Institutional logics of capitalist market, environmental protection, scientific research and regional development are deeply entangled in bioeconomy, and both challenge and complement each other. Based on interview results, selective coupling and de-coupling of institutional logics were common approaches when dealing with divergent, sometimes conflicting logics. Experts described partner profiling and selection processes that were designed to ensure the combability of partners. Common challenges in combining different institutional logics were related to differences in organizational culture and time horizons, lack of motivation, disputes in distribution of credit, and territorialism that results from competitive tensions between the partners. Based on interview results, external influence plays a major role in resource-intensive innovation work and steers the way logics interact with each other. Performance systems should ideally reflect multiplicity of institutional logics present in the arrangement, but in practice they were often formulated to support accountability towards the funding body. Due to the small sample size, these results are not generalizable but offer in-depth insights and potential points of departure for future studies.