Organization and Environment
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Conceptualizing a “Sustainability Business Model”
Organization and Environment - Tập 21 Số 2 - Trang 103-127 - 2008
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...
Material ESG Outcomes and SDG Externalities: Evaluating the Health Care Sector’s Contribution to the SDGs
Organization and Environment - Tập 33 Số 4 - Trang 511-533 - 2020
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...
Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment
Organization and Environment - Tập 23 Số 2 - Trang 155-188 - 2010
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 ...
Understanding the Diverse Scaling Strategies of Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Renewable Energy Cooperatives
Organization and Environment - Tập 33 Số 2 - Trang 195-219 - 2020
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...
The Metabolic Rifts of Livestock Agribusiness
Organization and Environment - Tập 24 Số 4 - Trang 404-422 - 2011
Massive structural, geographic, and socioeconomic transformations have taken
place in livestock production since the mid-20th century. Drawing from Marx’s
theory of metabolic rift, as developed by John Bellamy Foster and others, this
article examines the recent structural changes in relation to global carbon,
nitrogen, and water cycling. The authors argue that the environmental
consequences of lar...
The Metabolic Rift and Marine Ecology
Organization and Environment - Tập 18 Số 4 - Trang 422-444 - 2005
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 ...
Forests, Floods, and the Environmental State in China
Organization and Environment - Tập 15 Số 2 - Trang 109-130 - 2002
Deforestation continues in developing countries, despite predictions of ruinous
consequences in the 21st century. The state is a poor protector of the
environment in most of these countries but is the only agency able to deal with
many of the causes of deforestation. This article focuses on the most striking
example of state action against deforestation among the developing countries in
the world ...
Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment
Organization and Environment - Tập 28 Số 1 - Trang 8-31 - 2015
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...
Applying Stakeholder Theory in Sustainability Management
Organization and Environment - Tập 27 Số 4 - Trang 328-346 - 2014
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...
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