The dormant decoupled strategy configuration describes a situation where an organisation has parallel systems for the control of management and sustainability, but neither system is able to deploy strategies (Gond et al., 2012) This corresponds to the first few years after oilcom's incorporation as the national oil company, tasked with managing all petroleum related resources in the country in the 1970s. During the early years, oilCom paid little attention to sustainability because taking control of the domestic oil and gas industry from foreign companies was the main priority