Summary This article explores a collaborative initiative aiming to set standards for low-carbon practices in the Swedish food sector. Examining stakeholders' comments and considerations during formative stages of standard development, the process is explained in terms of how it is influenced by...

Summary This paper takes an integrative approach towards dialectics and social movement theories in a model of regional industry emergence processes. Based on an inductive qualitative investigation we describe how a new industry emerges in a declining and peripheral region dominated by...

Summary This article describes how smaller and larger firms face difficulties in establishing trust in multipartner alliances. Using survey data from a sample of 141 firms engaged in such alliances, we examine a curvilinear relationship between firm size and trust. Our results suggest an...

Investors spend money and resources trying to reduce the environmental, social, and governance risks in companies they own. If unattended, these risks may cause reputational damage not only to the portfolio firm, but also to its owner. In this paper, we study five Swedish national pension funds...

Investors spend money and resources trying to reduce the environmental, social and governance risks in companies they own. If unattended, these risks may cause reputational damage not only to the portfolio firm but also to its owner. In this article, we study five Swedish national pension funds...

Contemporary agricultural practices account for a significant share of greenhouse gas emissions. Inspired by the emergent literature on institutional entrepreneurship, we seek to explore mechanisms that affect an actor’s propensity to act in ways that imply suggesting and promoting...

Increasing competition and demanding customers in the financial retail sector challenge the monitoring and control systems in banks and insurance companies, because traditional systems seem to be of little help in focusing on profitable customers. This article compares how Danish and Finnish...

This article discusses the role played by social relationships when penetrating a foreign business network. In the business network literature social bonds have been identified as a dimension of buyer-seller relationships, but few studies have actually focused on this issue. The present study...

In this paper, we argue that the emotional bases of interorganisational interaction are of importance for understanding situations where the context of competition is under radical change. From an inductive study of descriptions of interaction among competitors before and after the deregulation...