2017
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.02.002
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Systems thinking: A review of sustainability management research

Abstract: Scholars from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives have sought to unravel the high complexities of sustainability. A mature understanding of sustainability management requires studies to adopt a multidisciplinary systemic lens capable of appreciating the interconnectivity of economic, political, social and ecological issues across temporal and spatial dimensions. Yet the field of systems thinking in the context of sustainability management research is disparate and can benefit from a comprehensive revi… Show more

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“…In general, what happens when we shift the analytical perspective from high‐level societal challenges to the local context of a specific firm? This is a fundamental problem about the systemic context of business operations and is the heart of the debate among CS scholars (Bansal & Song, ; Vermeulen & Witjes, ; Williams, Kennedy, Philipp, & Whiteman, ). Thus, it should be possible to use the field of CS as a theoretical home for our exploration of the SDGs.…”
Section: Theoretical Positioning Of the Findingsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In general, what happens when we shift the analytical perspective from high‐level societal challenges to the local context of a specific firm? This is a fundamental problem about the systemic context of business operations and is the heart of the debate among CS scholars (Bansal & Song, ; Vermeulen & Witjes, ; Williams, Kennedy, Philipp, & Whiteman, ). Thus, it should be possible to use the field of CS as a theoretical home for our exploration of the SDGs.…”
Section: Theoretical Positioning Of the Findingsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A recent literature review of systems thinking as a theoretical lens to better understand sustainability management, conducted by Williams et al in 2017, evidences the increasing attention to the potential of systems thinking in sustainability management research. Results illustrate the exponential increase in publications on systemic dimensions of sustainability management.…”
Section: Systems Thinking and Sustainabilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Even if initiatives do conform to this ''ideology of numbers'' (Chelli and Gendron 2012), such as pricing carbon through financial markets, they tend to reproduce the obsession with measurability, since carbon markets are themselves predicated on discourses of measurability (Böhm et al 2012). Therefore, the supermajors become trapped by their fixation with measurability, which in turn excludes alternative discourses that cannot be easily quantified such as deep ecology or systems thinking (Devall 1991;Williams et al 2017).…”
Section: Discursive Effects Of Avoiding Tension Through Mythmakingmentioning
confidence: 99%