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Title	Does Smart Equal Sustainable? Selective Coupling And Sustainability Performance In 251 Smart City Initiatives Understood As Hybrid Organizations
ID_Doc	20908
Authors	Friedrich J.; Palmié M.; Gassmann O.
Year	2021
Published	Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.162
Abstract	This paper depicts smart city initiatives as hybrid organizations that incorporate competing institutional logics. These logics are not equally pronounced across initiatives. The salience of the logics affects initiatives' selective coupling with economic, social, and environmental sustainability and, hence, their triple-layered sustainability performance. We suggest that the performance-related selective coupling is driven by two mechanisms: leveraging experience and seeking legitimacy. An empirical analysis of 251 initiatives supports our arguments. In line with the theory of selective coupling, we further find that initiatives embedded in a market logic display better overall sustainability performance than those embedded in a social welfare logic. © AoM 2021.All right reserved.
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