Conceptualizing environmental expertise through the lens of institutional work

Gluch, Pernilla; Bosch‐Sijtsema, Petra M.

doi:10.1080/01446193.2016.1177191

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“…Tensions caused by a mismatch of expectations has been discussed in previous research on environmental sustainability professional (Gluch and Bosch-Sijtsema 2016), however for the case of the ERPs there seems to be less stress than for other sustainability professionals, indicating that the ERPs might perceive a stronger self-identity and sense of freedom to pursue their (personal) missions than the environmental experts. A possible explanation might be that employment requirements, although complex to accomplish, in the end, have local and tangible results, i.e.…”

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confidence: 79%

Populating the social realm: new roles arising from social procurement

Troje

Gluch

2019

Construction Management and Economics

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Employment requirements, as part of social procurement, are increasingly used in construction procurement as a tool to mitigate issues of exclusion on the job market. To create a better understanding how employment requirements nurtures a new type of actor, here named the "employment requirement professional" (ERP), the aim of this paper is to study how this role is framed in terms of work practices and professional identity. Building on 21 semi-structured interviews in the Swedish construction sector, a detailed account of who works with employment requirements, how and why they conduct their work is provided. The findings show how ERPs mediate between contrasting interests when they create new social procurement roles and practices; how they enact different approaches to promote social sustainability, how their roles are formed by multiple and reciprocal lines of actions, and how they make sense of who they are and what type of work they engage in. The research contributes to a discussion on effects from social procurement in construction and the emergence of a new professional role, their identity and work practices.

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confidence: 79%

Populating the social realm: new roles arising from social procurement

Troje

Gluch

2019

Construction Management and Economics

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“…This study empirically identifies three types of 'evaluative transition': progressive transitions, where evaluations clearly inform and change decisions during the masterplan process, regressive transition where early evaluative recommendations are later deprioritised in favour of more dominant intentions, and static transitions, where evaluation has no effect on the masterplan process. Regressive and static transitions suggest that practitioners are locked into certain ways of doing practice, making them less likely to respond to evaluative information that diverges from more familiar practices (Gluch and Bosch-Sijtsema 2016;Heeres, Tillema, and Arts 2015;Schweber 2013). Based on this study, practitioners' responses to evaluative practice were more commonly 'locked-in' and resistant to change.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…External drivers: external coercive rules, normative guidance and mimetic practice (Lounsbury 2008;DiMaggio and Powell 1983) set intrinsic or extrinsic expectations for how practitioners use evaluative information; ii. Responsibility: the mode of agency, including iterative (past), practical-evaluative (present), and projective agency (future) (Battilana and D'Aunno 2009; Emirbayer and Mische 1998), personal and institutional intentionality (Gluch and Bosch-Sijtsema 2016), and differing sense of control over evaluative practices (Carmona 2014; Fox-Rogers and Murphy 2014); iii. Negotiation: the mediation of multiple evaluative intentions in masterplan processes required in order to make decisions (Sharma and Kearins 2011;Vlaar, Van den Bosch, and Volberda 2006).…”

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Embedding green infrastructure evaluation in neighbourhood masterplans – does BREEAM communities change anything?

Callway

Dixon

Nikolić

2019

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Green Infrastructure (GI) evaluation is reported to improve the sustainability of neighbourhood masterplans, but there has been little research examining the links between GI evaluation and masterplan decision-making. A study of six English masterplanned sites was carried out, with paired case studies reflecting three types of neighbourhood development (estate regeneration, urban infill, and rural-urban extension) to examine whether the sustainable neighbourhood standard, BREEAM Communities (BC), affected GI evaluation and masterplan decisions. In each of three pairs, one site had adopted BC and one had not. Strategy-as-Practice provided a conceptual framework to analyse 13 evaluative episodes, based on 48 interviews and public documents. The analysis revealed that GI-related recommendations were typically deprioritised at later masterplan stages, despite earlier decisions or the application of BC. Potential ways to enhance the embeddedness of GI evaluative practice include improving practitioners' understanding of GI and increasing accountability at later masterplan stages, such as through sustainability reporting.

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“…Consequently, changes in routines, established knowledge base and power structures may be resisted, hindering the transfer of knowledge to the wider organisation (Bresnen, Goussevskaia, and Swan, 2005). This has been empirically investigated in cases where new environmental practices were introduced into construction projects (Gluch, 2009;Gluch & Bosch-Sijtsema, 2016).…”

Section: At a Permanent Network Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%