Joel Andrus
Texas A&M University
The Impact of Logics on Renewable Power Generation at Landfills: A Multiple Level Analysis
ABSTRACT
In this study, I address the question of how sustainable ventures by existing organizations are impacted by the institutional logics that both define and surround them. In doing so, I will consider how logics at multiple levels of analysis (organization-, community-, and field-level) influences when organizations enter a new market, how much risk they take as they enter the market, and the long term survival of these ventures. Theoretically, implications for the effects of community level logics on organizational logics are considered using a unique dataset covering the years 1970-2014 on the entire population of U.S. landfills falling under EPA regulations to collect and flare methane gas.
BIOGRAPHY
Joel Andrus (jandrus@mays.tamu.edu) is in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University where he is doing research in corporate governance, executive mobility, and sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship. His primary interests are in how the social and cultural context influences the ways that managers and their respective organizations perceive risk and uncertainty, especially within the context of the natural environment. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Annals.