The Professional Logic of Sustainability Managers: Finding Underlying Dynamics
通过分析21位瑞典企业可持续发展管理者的访谈，发现其专业逻辑并非独立，而是市场、官僚和可持续性逻辑的混合体，解释了为何他们更接近“组织专业人士”而非传统职业。
Abstract The role of the Sustainability Manager (SM) is expanding. Whether SMs are turning into a new profession is under debate. Pointing to the need for a distinct professional logic to qualify as a profession, we identify what is contained within a professional logic of SMs. Through analyzing ambiguities present in the role of the SMs, we show that there is no specific distinct professional logic of SMs, but rather a meta-construct building on market, bureaucratic, and sustainability logics. In addition, we point to the complex configurations of and relationships between these underlying logics. The complexities also explain why the SMs differ from traditional professions and why it is problematic to talk about a ‘SM profession’. Rather, SMs are ‘organizational professionals’. The article builds on 21 interviews with SMs working for Swedish companies.