Structuring Private Sustainability Governance: Combining Rule-Based and Goal-Based Mechanisms DOI Creative Commons
Daniel Wörner,

Niklas Letmathe,

Marin Jovanović

и другие.

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

Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation DOI
Daniel Muzio, Christopher Wickert

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

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What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research? DOI Creative Commons
Christopher Wickert

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

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Structuring Private Sustainability Governance: Combining Rule-Based and Goal-Based Mechanisms DOI Creative Commons
Daniel Wörner,

Niklas Letmathe,

Marin Jovanović

и другие.

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

Процитировано

0