Reimagining the Scales, Dimensions and Fields of Socio‐ecological Sustainability

O’Reilly, Dermot; Allen, Stephen; Reedy, Patrick

doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12278

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“…Looking beyond a single organizational environment, scholars investigated spatial scale as the size and level of bundled spaces in which different organizational activities occurred, typically in a nested hierarchy of distinct but fixed geographic scopes (e.g., local, regional, national, and global) (O'Reilly, Allen, & Reedy, 2018). Activities that occurred within an organization's built-environment constituted the microscale, ones that took place between organizational spaces functioned as the mesoscale, and activities that emerged in regions and states external to them created the macroscale (Burrell & Dale, 2014;Taylor & Spicer, 2007).…”

Section: Spatial Scalesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Process Studies of Organizational Space

Stephenson

Kuismin

Putnam

et al. 2020

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The past decade has experienced an increase in the number of studies on organizational space or where work occurs. A number of these studies challenge traditional views of organizational space as a fixed, physical workspace because researchers fail to account for the spatial dynamics that they observe. New technologies, shifting employee-employer relations, and burgeoning expectations of the contemporary workforce blur boundaries between home and work, connect people and things that historically could not be linked, and extend workspaces to nearly everywhere, not just office buildings. Research on these transformations calls for incorporating movement into the physicality of work. Thus, organizational scholars have turned to process studies as ways to examine the dynamic features that create and alter spatial arrangements. However, the rapidly growing work in this area lacks integration and theoretical development. To address these concerns, we review and classify the organizational literature that casts space as a process, that is, dynamically as movements, performances, flows, and changing routines. This review yields five orientations of organizational space scholarship that we label as developing, transitioning, imbricating, becoming, and constituting. We discuss these orientations, examine how they relate to key constructs of organizational space, and show how this work offers opportunities to theorizing about organizations.Within organization and management studies, the research on space has moved from a fringe area to a pivotal concern for organizational theorizing. Organizational space refers to the built environments that emerge from organizational activities, objects, arrangements, and social practices 2 (Beyes & Steyaert, 2012;Cunliffe & Luchman, 2013). This move has ushered in the treatment of space as both enabling and constraining actions rather than functioning as a neutral, stable container (Dale & Burrell, 2008;Taylor & Spicer, 2007). It also crosses vital issues in management studies, for example, how space interfaces with strategic work (Hydle, 2015;Jarzabkowski, Burke, & Spee, 2015;Lancione & Clegg, 2013), how physical arrangements play a role in maintaining institutions (Siebert, Wilson, & Hamilton, 2017), and how new working areas allow employees to implement organizational changes (Kellogg, 2009).Organizational space is pivotal to studies of iden-

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Section: Spatial Scalesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Process Studies of Organizational Space

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Kuismin

Putnam

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“…These “hotspots of disruptive transformation” symbolise a de-growth agenda that is more challenging for policymakers, businesses and communities to visualise (Gibbs and O'Neill, 2014, p. 7), infusing sustainable innovations with non-capitalist processes and logic (Lloveras et al , 2018). Research needs to recognise and explore the unacknowledged contradictions that underpin the logic and rationale of scaling up sustainable alternatives (O'Reilly et al , 2018), and contest certain ideas about the benefits of economies of scale within business and marketing studies. Goworek et al (2018) note that a key factor in the capacity and speed at which local actions could be scaled up is the connection of sustainability‐related activities by intermediary organisations that can generate resonance between multiple sites through association or alliance.…”

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Seeking sustainable futures in marketing and consumer research

Davies

Oates

Tynan

et al. 2020

EJM

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Purpose Seeking ways towards a sustainable future is the most dominant socio-political challenge of our time. Marketing should have a crucial role to play in leading research and impact in sustainability, yet it is limited by relying on cognitive behavioural theories rooted in the 1970s, which have proved to have little bearing on actual behaviour. This paper aims to interrogate why marketing is failing to address the challenge of sustainability and identify alternative approaches. Design/methodology/approach The constraint in theoretical development contextualises the problem, followed by a focus on four key themes to promote theory development: developing sustainable people; models of alternative consumption; building towards sustainable marketplaces; and theoretical domains for the future. These themes were developed and refined during the 2018 Academy of Marketing workshop on seeking sustainable futures. MacInnis’s (2011) framework for conceptual contributions in marketing provides the narrative thread and structure. Findings The current state of play is explicated, combining the four themes and MacInnis’s framework to identify the failures and gaps in extant approaches to the field. Research limitations/implications This paper sets a new research agenda for the marketing discipline in quest for sustainable futures in marketing and consumer research. Practical implications Approaches are proposed which will allow the transformation of the dominant socio-economic systems towards a model capable of promoting a sustainable future. Originality/value The paper provides thought leadership in marketing and sustainability as befits the special issue, by moving beyond the description of the problem to making a conceptual contribution and setting a research agenda for the future.

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“…Sustainable learning and education: A curriculum for the future We are all agents in our ecosystem, actively contributing to its viability, and influencing its resilience or demise (O'Reilly et al 2018;Spinozzi and Mazzanti 2017).…”

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Sustainable learning and education: A curriculum for the future

Hays¹,

Reinders

2020

Int Rev Educ

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This article introduces sustainable learning and education (SLE), an emerging philosophy of learning and teaching founded on principles of sustainability. SLE is not necessarily education for sustainability, but rather sustainable learning, a new and different idea. The intention behind SLE is to create and proliferate sustainable curricula and methods of learning and teaching. These are designed to instil in people the skills and dispositions to thrive in complicated, challenging and ever-changing circumstances, and contribute to making the world a better place. This article contributes to the literature by (1) elucidating the concept and purpose of SLE; (2) enumerating principles of sustainability that apply in the educational and professional development context; and (3) proposing a curriculum for SLE framed as a university course or professional development programme. The authors emphasise the importance of systems and ecological thinking and the essential role of self-sufficiency as both a means and an end of sustainable learning and education. They conclude with a comment on community: the more fully we accept and appreciate our neighbours, organisations and societies as important, interdependent and deserving of a viable future, and the more we engage with them towards positive ends, the more universally accepted the imperative of sustainability will be, and the more likely we are to attain it.

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Reimagining the Scales, Dimensions and Fields of Socio‐ecological Sustainability

Cited by 7 publications

References 73 publications

Process Studies of Organizational Space

Process Studies of Organizational Space

Seeking sustainable futures in marketing and consumer research

Sustainable learning and education: A curriculum for the future

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