Revealing Curitiba's flawed sustainability: How discourse can prevent institutional change

Governing Sustainability: A Discourse-Institutional Approach

The paper considers problems and possibilities connected with governing and realising the ―transition to sustainability‖—or at least to a more deeply resilient energy system. Conceptually its focus is on neo-institutional analysis and critical discourse analysis and the development of a discourse-institutional perspective. The first strand of the paper outlines the limitations of and potential ...

How Does Integrated Reporting Change Sustainability Communications?

(How) can we prevent type 2 diabetes?

How healthcare organisations can act as institutional entrepreneurs in a context of change.

PURPOSE The aim of this paper is to illustrate and discuss how healthcare organisations can act as institutional entrepreneurs in a context of change. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The authors conducted an in-depth longitudinal case study (2005-2008) of a healthcare organisation in the province of Quebec, Canada. Data collection consisted of real-time observations of senior managers (n = 87), i...

Common Resources and Institutional Sustainability