CASTRATED Environment: GREENING Organizational Studies
- 1 September 1994
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Organization Studies
- Vol. 15 (5) , 705-726
- https://doi.org/10.1177/017084069401500504
Abstract
Over the past hundred years organizational activities have caused devastating damage to the natural environment. In response, environmentalism has emerged as an influential intellectual current, and as a worldwide mass move ment. Despite these trends, Organizational Studies as a field has failed to engage seriously in environmental discourses. Organizational theories cannot adequately address environmental concerns because of their limited ideas of 'organizational environment'. This paper iden tifies and critiques these limitations. It proposes an alternative view of organ izational environment as an economic biosphere. It examines the implications of this view for creating more nature-centred (green) organizational theories.Keywords
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