(Un)Sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement

Ergene, Seray; Banerjee, Subhabrata Bobby; Hoffman, Andrew J.

doi:10.1177/0170840620937892

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“…There is a similar discrepancy in mainstream OMS research (and teaching) that reinforces the idea that corporations need to keep growing without regard to planetary boundaries or socio-ecological system needs (Ergene et al, 2020;Nyberg and Wright, 2020). This discrepancy is not limited to research.…”

Section: Imagining Post-growth Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Ecological economics, for example, challenges the orthodoxy of mainstream economics by focusing on human wellbeing, strong sustainability, and economic and ecological justice. Sustainability research in OMS on the other hand is more about corporate sustainability and making a business case for sustainability rather than an ecological case for business (Ergene et al, 2020). There is a need to understand the taken-for-granted assumptions in OMS theories that normalize and reinforce growth.…”

Section: Planetary Crises and Post-growth Organizing: A Research Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Theoretical perspectives on organizations and organizing in a post-growth era

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The fundamental assumption we base this Special Issue on is that narrow concepts of growth have become the ruling ideas of this age, entrenched both in everyday life and to a considerable extent in the theoretical thinking and traditions of research conducted by organization and management studies scholars. We explain how tacit (or overt) endorsement of unbridled economic growth (the growth imperative) has pernicious practical effects and how it tends to restrict the intellectual base of the field. We argue that notions of degrowth present scholars with challenges as well as opportunities to reframe core assumptions and develop new directions in theory and research. Envisioning a post-COVID 19 world where societies and organizations can flourish without growth is one of the most difficult tasks facing theorists. We approach this challenge first by discussing the hegemonic properties of growth ideology and second by sketching an alternative political economy as a context for reimagining social and economic relations within planetary capacities in a post-growth era. Drawing on degrowth literature in ecological economics, sociology and political ecology, we identify key principles relevant to processes of organizing for a more just and environmentally sustainable future: frugal abundance, conviviality, care, and open relocalization. We conclude by introducing the three articles we feature in this issue along with some thoughts about theorizing policy and regulatory changes needed to generate transformational change and a future research agenda.

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Section: Imagining Post-growth Organizationsmentioning

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Section: Planetary Crises and Post-growth Organizing: A Research Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…In these disciplines, both approaches coexist and continue to stimulate each other (see Farjoun, 2010). This transition should also prove viable and fruitful for SCM by activating more critical, relational, interdisciplinary, and engaged scholarship (Ergene et al, 2020). Second, we should not forget that pioneering work in SCM research has already used dynamic approaches.…”

Section: Moving Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dancing the Supply Chain: Toward Transformative Supply Chain Management

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2020

J Supply Chain Manag

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Most of the theories that have dominated supply chain management (SCM) take a reductionist and static view on the supply chain and its management, promoting a global hunt for cheap labor and resources. As a result, supply chains tend to be operated without much concern for their broader contextual environment. This perspective overlooks that supply chains have become both vulnerable and harmful systems. Recent and ongoing crises have emphasized that the structures and processes of supply chains are fluid and interwoven with political‐economic and planetary phenomena. Building on panarchy theory, this article reinterprets the supply chain as a social–ecological system and leaves behind a modernist view of SCM, replacing it with a more contemporary vision of “dancing the supply chain.” A panarchy is a structure of adaptive cycles that are linked across different levels on scales of time, space, and meaning. It represents the world’s complexities more effectively than reductionist and static theories ever could, providing the basis for transformative SCM.

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“…We join those who construct counter-stories to reshuffle prevailing frames of ecopreneurshp (Campbell, 2006); provide alternative understandings of human relationship with nonhuman nature (Beacham, 2018); and look for the micro-revolutions at the micro-level of economic organizing in the Anthropocene realities (Gibson-Graham, 2014). As we attempt in this study, researchers can take a more active part in enacting alternative imaginaries through their work (Ergene et al, 2020;Gayá and Phillips, 2016).…”

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Suffering catalyzing ecopreneurship: Critical ecopsychology of organizations

2021

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The article bridges the gap between ecology and mind in organization theory by exploring the role of psychological suffering for sustainable organizing. In particular, it shows how burn-out, experiential deprivation, and ecological anxiety prompt ecopreneurs within the Swedish back-to-the-land movement to become ecologically embedded. Three counter-practices illustrate how this suffering represents an inner revolt against the exploitative structures of modern society and growth capitalism, and a catalyst for alternative ecopreneurship. The article takes the first steps toward critical ecopsychology of organizations, which offers an ecocentric ontology and a moral-political framework for degrowth transition.

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(Un)Sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement

Cited by 142 publications

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Theoretical perspectives on organizations and organizing in a post-growth era

Theoretical perspectives on organizations and organizing in a post-growth era

Dancing the Supply Chain: Toward Transformative Supply Chain Management

Suffering catalyzing ecopreneurship: Critical ecopsychology of organizations

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