Organisational Collectives for Sustainable Change: Hope or Hoax?

Paper in proceeding, 2025

The sustainable transition of the construction sector represents a collective problem that necessitates collective efforts to address. This study presents preliminary findings from a study of 12 organisational collectives, defined as formal or informal assemblies of organisations pursuing collective entrepreneurial actions aimed at tackling sustainability challenges in the Danish construction sector. Empirically, the study is based on interviews with representatives from the organisational collectives, providing insights into their respective composition and activities. Mobilising the theoretical concept of collective institutional entrepreneurship, this study explores the efforts of four ideal types to drive sustainable change. It contributes to construction management research by offering new perspectives on organisational collectives as a distinct type of field-level institutional entrepreneur and by exploring whether these interorganisational arrangements represent genuine hopes or mere hoaxes for advancing sustainable change.