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Sustaining Inter-organizational Relationships Across Institutional Logics and Power Asymmetries : The Case of Fair Trade

Benjamin Huybrechts
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This paper explores an empirical puzzle, namely, how inter-organizational relationships can be sustained between organizations that draw upon distinctive--and potentially conflicting--institutional logics under conditions of power asymmetry. This research analyses cases of these relationships and suggests some key conditions underlying them. Examining relationships between 'Fair Trade' organizations and corporate retailers, a series of contingent factors behind the dynamic persistence of such relationships are proposed, namely: the presence of pre-existing 'hybrid logics'; the use of boundary-spanning discourses; joint tolerance of conflict; and co-creation of common rules. These four elements are supported by a fifth mediating factor, i.e. the presence and use of a Fair Trade certification system in the collaboration. The latter appears as a central vehicle facilitating cross-logic relationships--it can be seen as a 'boundary object' embodying a series of narratives and discourses that are open to multiple interpretations corresponding to the dominant institutional logics of each partner organization.
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hal-02312323 , version 1 (20-02-2020)

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Alex Nicholls, Benjamin Huybrechts. Sustaining Inter-organizational Relationships Across Institutional Logics and Power Asymmetries : The Case of Fair Trade. Journal of Business Ethics, 2016, 135 (4), 699-714 p. ⟨hal-02312323⟩

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