IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

This paper investigates how planners involved in collaborative sustainability innovation in major Swedish municipalities negotiate a bureaucratic and an experimental institutional logic. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach, we argue that preferred ways of combining the logics among planners are influenced by project management practices. Projectification thus appears to mediate between the two logics, ‘taming’ to some extent the experimental logic. At the same time, variation across planners indicates ongoing dynamics between the logics and potential resistance against dominating project modes that warrant further attention.