Led by principal researcher John Almandoz, Professor in the Department of Managing People in Organizations, the "Plural Institutions in a Sustainable Society" project encompasses several target projects focusing on sustainable societies and on business leadership attuned to broad societal institutions. The first will explore cross-institutional governance to explain how societies evolve as different institutions serve as checks and balances for one another. A second sub-project will study in depth how corporate purpose can help organizations relate fruitfully with their external environment. IESE Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship Jeroen Neckebrouck is to be the main researcher for the third set of targets under the framework of institutional logics, using a quantitative data set on the employment practices of various family and non-family firms in Belgium. Professors Almandoz and Neckebrouck will be aided by external team members from HEC, the University of Miami, Georgia State University, and the Eindhoven University of Technology.
