Climate Change and the Emergence of New Organizational Landscapes

Organization Studies - Tập 33 Số 11 - Trang 1431-1450 - 2012
Bettina Wittneben1, Chukwumerije Okereke2, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee3, David Levy4
1University of Oxford, UK
2University of Reading, UK
3University of Western Sydney,#R##N#Australia.
4University of Massachusetts/Boston USA

Tóm tắt

There is general agreement across the world that human-made climate change is a serious global problem, although there are still some sceptics who challenge this view. Research in organization studies on the topic is relatively new. Much of this research, however, is instrumental and managerialist in its focus on ‘win-win’ opportunities for business or its treatment of climate change as just another corporate social responsibility (CSR) exercise. In this paper, we suggest that climate change is not just an environmental problem requiring technical and managerial solutions; it is a political issue where a variety of organizations – state agencies, firms, industry associations, NGOs and multilateral organizations – engage in contestation as well as collaboration over the issue. We discuss the strategic, institutional and political economy dimensions of climate change and develop a socioeconomic regimes approach as a synthesis of these different theoretical perspectives. Given the urgency of the problem and the need for a rapid transition to a low-carbon economy, there is a pressing need for organization scholars to develop a better understanding of apathy and inertia in the face of the current crisis and to identify paths toward transformative change. The seven papers in this special issue address these areas of research and examine strategies, discourses, identities and practices in relation to climate change at multiple levels.

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Organization Studies

Tập 33 Số 11

1431-1450

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