Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation
Journal of Management Studies,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Апрель 14, 2025
Abstract
Achieving
system‐level
change
for
climate
transitions
is
needed,
and
incremental
efforts
are
widely
considered
insufficient.
Drawing
on
neo‐Schumpeterian,
cultural‐institutionalist,
post‐structuralist
theories,
this
Point‐Counterpoint
debate
explores
the
systemic
barriers
including
neoliberal
policies,
corporate
hegemony,
growth‐driven
cultural
logics
which
inhibit
kind
of
that
needed
to
mitigate
increasingly
devastating
climatic
conditions.
Our
contributors
propose
a
range
potential
solutions
may
break
these
deliver
required
radical
change.
These
include
further
better
democratization,
quixotic
institutional
work
so
as
undermine
dominant
templates,
use
various
counter‐hegemonic
practices,
development
alternative
forms
organizing.
In
introduction,
we
explore
contact
departure
points
between
three
positions
offer
some
critical
reflections
future
research
questions
idea
Язык: Английский
What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?
Journal of Management Studies,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Апрель 9, 2025
Abstract
Future
making,
the
work
of
enacting
yet‐to‐come
by
making
sense
and
giving
form
to
imaginings
future,
has
become
topical
in
management
studies
lately.
Triggered
pressing
societal
challenges
like
climate
change,
inequality
threatened
democratic
institutions
vis‐à‐vis
a
‘crisis
mode’,
scholars
have
started
engage
with
future
as
an
open‐ended
temporal
category,
both
object
analysis
happening
around
organizations,
well
way
scholarly
inquiry.
This
Point‐Counterpoint
debate
about
research
comes
right
on
time,
future‐making
seems
be
at
crossroads,
potentially
heading
bright
–
or
not
so
future.
The
contributions
this
collectively
ask:
What
is
research,
they
could
more
different
pathways
envisage.
Язык: Английский
Structuring Private Sustainability Governance: Combining Rule-Based and Goal-Based Mechanisms
Journal of Business Ethics,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Май 19, 2025
Abstract
This
study
investigates
the
structuring
of
private
sustainability
governance
as
a
critical
mechanism
for
facilitating
transitions.
Drawing
on
33
semi-structured
interviews
with
manufacturing
firms,
regulatory
bodies,
policy
associations,
auditing
and
management
consultancies,
examines
how
firms
navigate
increasing
external
pressures,
including
ambiguity,
compliance
demands,
market
expectations,
stakeholder
accountability,
while
simultaneously
managing
internal
through
organizational
restructuring,
sustainable
performance
measurement,
data
management,
human
resources,
incentive
structures.
The
findings
highlight
importance
integrating
rule-based
goal-based
two
key
mechanisms:
shaping
by
aligning
influencing
standards,
adapting
to
embed
into
core
business
operations.
develops
hybrid
framework
that
demonstrates
leverage
both
mechanisms
in
parallel,
revealing
tensions
inherent
balancing
strategic
ambitions.
We
make
further
contribution
underscoring
role
ethical
change
fostering
transparency,
proactive
commitments.
By
examining
structures
combination
considerations,
advances
discourse
governance,
offering
theoretical
insights
practical
implications
navigating
transition
toward
systems.
Язык: Английский