20.500.12556/RUL-174617 The fatal flaw unraveling combinations of barriers to corporate sustainability The paper deepens understanding of barriers to corporate sustainability by examining internal and external barriers in the food and beverage sector. Drawing on institutional theory, the study highlights how macro-level pressures interact with meso-level organizational dynamics. Using data from a questionnaire and analyzed via fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, the exploration of internal barriers reveals that the combination of insufficient top management motivation, a lack of employee competencies, and misalignment with organizational culture is a critical obstacle to effective strategy implementation. Moreover, the interplay of internal and external barriers, such as weak market demand, limited technological solutions, and inadequate financing, poses considerable challenges to sustainability performance. The study reveals that these barriers stem from conflicting institutional logics across organizational and field levels, with the logic of sustainable development often lacking dominance. The study emphasizes the configurational nature of barriers and the importance of systemic, cross-level alignment to enable sustainability transformation. barriers corporate sustainability environmental management fsQCA institutional logics sustainable development podjetja trajnost ekologija ravnanje z okoljem true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-10-07 11:25:19 2025-10-07 11:25:25 2026-02-12 04:36:27 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 1667-1683 iss. 2 Vol. 35 Feb. 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 005: 502.131.1 1099-0836 10.1002/bse.70225 252052739 Bus_Strat_Env_-_2025_-_Milic_-_The_Fatal_Flaw__Unraveling_Combinations_of_Barriers_to_Corporate_Sustainability.pdf Bus_Strat_Env_-_2025_-_Milic_-_The_Fatal_Flaw__Unraveling_Combinations_of_Barriers_to_Corporate_Sustainability.pdf 1 F6FC8F55DEAF14668E3BB56BA3BE16AB c4b749722875b6fa16088f60502fefe3fcdf33e1752c5107cc7a1c8cff8e27be 8fa2af1b-0726-11f1-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=227754 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bse.70225 0 f45ecadb-0327-11f1-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=227353 Ekonomska fakulteta Fakulteta za družbene vede 0 0 0