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Upscaling Sustainable Niches: How a User Perspective of Organizational Value Logics Can Help Translate Between Niche and System

In: Business Models for Sustainability Transitions

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  • Alexandra Palzkill

    (University of Wuppertal)

  • Karoline Augenstein

    (University of Wuppertal)

Abstract

A great variety of business organizations, environmentally or socially motivated entrepreneurs, aim to contribute to the development of more sustainable societies. A key question is how these organizations can move beyond isolated, protected niches and increase their impact on the mainstream without compromising their sustainability-oriented core mission and values? In the following chapter, this question is approached by focusing on the organizational value logics of sustainability-oriented entrepreneurs and how these are related to, translated and defended against dominant regimes built around market and commercial logics. It will discuss how a user perspective of organizational value logics can shed light on the process of niche-regime interaction and the upscaling potential of sustainable niches or provide a way to manage different logics using an outside-in-perspective. This chapter presents a case study of a civil society initiative’s entrepreneurial activities and reflects on the question of how organizations can contribute to sustainability transitions while confronted with different and often fundamentally incompatible niche and regime logics.

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  • Alexandra Palzkill & Karoline Augenstein, 2021. "Upscaling Sustainable Niches: How a User Perspective of Organizational Value Logics Can Help Translate Between Niche and System," Springer Books, in: Annabeth Aagaard & Florian Lüdeke-Freund & Peter Wells (ed.), Business Models for Sustainability Transitions, edition 1, pages 229-248, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-77580-3_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77580-3_8
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