Sustainability management: research insights from social cognitive neuroscience

McDonald, P. Vernon

doi:10.1002/bse.2184

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“…From Paul Hawken's work on the ecology of commerce and the Natural Step, to the seminal paper by Hannan and Freeman (1977) on organisations and population ecology, and Amburgey and Rao's (1996) review of the theoretical and empirical development of the organisational ecology field. More recent work includes the potential contributions of neuroscience (McDonald, 2018), punctuated equilibrium in strategy discourse (Romanelli & Tushman, 1994), sustainability discourse in the media (Holt & Barkemeyer, 2012), ecosystems and the circular economy (Zucchella & Previtali, 2019) and nature-based metaphors in the exploration of marketing (Mitchell & Saren, 2008).…”

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Towards a typology of strategic corporate social responsibility through camouflage and courtship analogies

Crotty

Holt

2021

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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This paper develops a theory of strategic corporate social responsibility responses, by drawing on the analogy of biological species-level adaptations of camouflage and courtship found in the natural world. In so doing, we focus on the substantive response and associated strategic motivation to engage in different types of CSR within a mainstreaming environment; and the mechanisms by which it occurs in differing scenarios, framed through a biological interpretative lens. We presents eight strategic approaches to CSR, each defined by a camouflage or courtship approach.Each strategy is considered through the lens of their biological comparators and published case vignettes of CSR strategies within firms. The paper concludes by discussing a future research agenda building on the theoretical framework presented.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a typology of strategic corporate social responsibility through camouflage and courtship analogies

Crotty

Holt

2021

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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“…Thus, negative messages may strengthen status quo bias (Samuelson and Zeckhauser 1988) or normalcy bias (Omer and Alon 1994). Moreover, when a negative message arouses fear, the neural signal may skip the cortex, which is linked to cognitive processes associated with creativity (McDonald 2018). This means that negative messages may prevent coming up with creative solutions for the problem.…”

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Decision Science for Future Earth: A Conceptual Framework

Yahara

Tanaka

Inoue

et al. 2021

Decision Science for Future Earth

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The purpose of this chapter is to review progress in our understanding of human behavior and decision-making relevant to future earth research agenda, and propose Decision Science as a hub of knowledge networks connecting disciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences with the practice of problem-solving. This review is composed of four sections. First, we describe the conceptual framework of “decision science for a sustainable society” and argue that evolutionary biology of the human nature is key to construct this framework. Second, we review how our group decision-making often fails due to various cognitive biases and argue that participatory approaches of co-design and co-production do not guarantee reasonable decision-making. Third, we review success stories of problem-solving in local communities and consider how we can connect those successes in local communities to successful national and global decision-making. Fourth, learning from both failures and successes, we argue that the adaptive learning of society is a process enabling us to transform our society toward a sustainable future. We review some positive global trends toward sustainability and consider the cognitive processes and behavioral mechanisms behind those trends that would provide clues for finding successful ways to transform our society.

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“…Several studies have examined the effects of neuroscience in sustainable design in engineering science (Hu, 2017;Aoki, et al, 2020). Some studies examine sustainability management in organization with neuroscience (Shahand, et al, 2015;McDonald, 2018).…”

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Neuroscience for Understanding and Developing Sustainability: Neurosustainability

Özer

2021

Journal of Business Innovation and Governance

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Sustainability is a complex and innovative concept that inherently requires the new ways of thinking constantly for basic biological decision-making processes such as adaptation and collaboration. Neuroscience is a scientific field that investigates the functions and responses of nervous systems and the brain, which are becoming more and more widely used with technological innovations in brain imaging. As an interdisciplinary field neuroscience is especially along with health, engineering, social sciences and art, has led to the emergence of new fields such as neuropsychology, neuroeconomics, neurosociology, neuroinformatics, neuropolitics, neuromarketing, etc. Although a vast majority of neural connections are operated for the continuity of an organism or an organization, unfortunately there have been no extensive studies in sustainability literature that use neuroscience findings, techniques, and approaches. In this context, this study fills this gap with the concept of neurosustainability as a new interdisciplinary field that demonstrates its relationship with neuroscience in the field of sustainability and reveal strategic elements and implications for future research.

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Sustainability management: research insights from social cognitive neuroscience

Cited by 17 publications

References 103 publications

Towards a typology of strategic corporate social responsibility through camouflage and courtship analogies

Towards a typology of strategic corporate social responsibility through camouflage and courtship analogies

Decision Science for Future Earth: A Conceptual Framework

Neuroscience for Understanding and Developing Sustainability: Neurosustainability

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