According to one perspective, organizations will only be sustainable if the
dominant neoclassical model of the firm is transformed, rather than
supplemented, by social and environmental priorities. This article seeks to
develop a “sustainability business model” (SBM)—a model where sustainability
concepts shape the driving force of the firm and its decision making. The SBM is
drawn from two case st... hiện toàn bộ
Jacob Hörisch, R. Edward Freeman, Stefan Schaltegger
This essay examines links, similarities, and dissimilarities between stakeholder
theory and sustainability management. Based on the analysis a conceptual
framework is developed to increase the applicability and the application of
stakeholder theory in sustainability management. Concluding from the analysis,
we identify three challenges of managing stakeholder relationships for
sustainability: stre... hiện toàn bộ
Impact and benefit agreements (IBAs) between natural resource developers and
Aboriginal communities are increasingly portrayed as viable approaches to assure
Aboriginal people will reap economic benefits of resource extraction in their
traditional territories. Drawing from existing literature about the social
context of IBA negotiations, especially in Northern Canada, the authors’
analysis contrib... hiện toàn bộ
Thomas Bauwens, Benjamin Huybrechts, Frédéric Dufays
This article seeks to shed light on the diversity of scaling strategies of
social enterprises, which can be considered as emblematic hybrid organizations.
By comparing three Flemish renewable energy cooperatives with contrasted scaling
strategies, the article shows how these strategies can be understood in relation
to the organizational mission as imprinted at the founding. We extend the notion
of... hiện toàn bộ
This article develops a theoretical foundation for understanding the human
influence on the oceans and the resulting oceanic crisis as it relates to the
depletion of fish stock and the expansion of aquaculture. Drawing on
environmental sociology and insights from the historical materialist tradition,
the authors study the nature-society dialectic as it relates to human
interactions with the ocean ... hiện toàn bộ
Liam Downey, Summer DuBois, Brian Hawkins, Michelle Walker
This study compares the environmental hazard burden experienced by Blacks,
Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Whites in
each of the 329 metropolitan areas in the continental United States, using
toxicity-weighted air pollutant concentration data drawn from the Environmental
Protection Agency's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators project to determine
whether an... hiện toàn bộ
This review article summarizes the main tenets of institutional theory as they
apply to the topic of the Anthropocene in the domain of organization and the
natural environment. But our review is distinctive for two reasons: First, it is
focused on providing avenues researching the Anthropocene Era. Second, while
based on the trajectory of current, accumulated theory and research, our review
is for... hiện toàn bộ
This article sets forth a new theoretical model that holds that local, regional,
and global environmental crises are to a significant degree the product of
organizational, institutional, and network-based inequality, which provide
economic, political, military, and ideological elites with the means to create
and control organizational and network-based mechanisms through which they (a)
monopolize ... hiện toàn bộ
Costanza Consolandi, Himani Phadke, Jim Hawley, Robert G. Eccles
The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have created a framework for
environmental and social impacts, which institutional investors and corporations
are using to guide resource allocation or highlight SDG-aligned investments
already in place. We argue that the SDGs have clarified certain elements
predominantly missing or implicit in many environmental, social, and governance
(ESG) standard... hiện toàn bộ