Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era
Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era

Author: Andrew J. Hoffman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-30

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1108575137

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Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era applies organization theory to a grand challenge: our entry into the Anthropocene era, a period marked not only by human impact on climate change, but on chemical waste, habitat destruction, and despeciation. It focuses on institutional theory, modified by political readings of organizations, as one approach that can help us navigate a new course. Besides offering mechanisms, such as institutional entrepreneurship, social movements, and policy shifts, the institutional-political variant developed here helps analysts understand the framing of scientific facts, the counter-mobilization of skeptics, and the creation of archetypes as new social orders.

Sustainability in the Anthropocene
Sustainability in the Anthropocene

Author: Cristina Pontes Bonfiglioli

Publisher: Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9781498584227

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This collection of essays, written by an international group of scholars, provides a more critical and creative contemporary practice of "sustainability." The book sets this practice free from its reductive interpretations and applies a more thoughtful environmental ethics to the current and emerging technologies that dominate our lives.

The Search for the Virtuous Corporation
The Search for the Virtuous Corporation

Author: Justin O'Brien

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-11-25

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1108985343

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The corporation is the most complex, adaptive, and resilient model of organizing economic activity in history. In an era of globalization, the transnational corporation has significant power over society. While its rights are specified through private ordering, and choice of jurisdictional home, in the event of conflict of laws, the corporation's duties and responsibilities remain contested. Notwithstanding the argument in institutional economics that all transactions take place within governance and legal frameworks, underpinned by a 'non-calculative social contract,' the terms are notoriously difficult to define or enforce. They are made more so if regulatory dynamics preclude litigation to a judicial conclusion. This Element situates the corporation – its culture, governance, responsibility, and accountability – within a broader discourse of duty. In doing so, it addresses the problem of the corporation for society and the corporation's problem in aligning its governance to changing community expectations of obligation.

Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Multiple Goals
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Multiple Goals

Author: Pino G. Audia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-02-18

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1108577555

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This Element synthesizes the current state of research on organizational learning from performance feedback and develops a new perspective that deals with the influence of multiple goals. In keeping with the centrality of motives in Cyert & March's influential model, this new perspective rests on a foundation of individual level behaviors that are responsive to mechanisms at the organizational and environmental level of analysis. A key aim is to lay out an agenda for a new wave of empirical research on the interconnections of decision-makers, organizations, and the environment that influence organizational responses to performance.

Family Firm
Family Firm

Author: Evelyn Micelotta

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-01-31

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1009099523

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This Element reinvigorates calls to explore avenues to further integrate the research fields of Organization Theory (OT) and Family Business (FB). It presents the family business literature in management journals and categorizes these papers based on four types of theoretical contribution: Embedded, Integrative, Challenger and Generalized. It discusses opportunities for dialogue between FB and OT for each type in three research domains: (i) managing hybridity, (ii) mastering tensions, dualities, and paradoxes, and (iii) modelling time and temporality.

Ambiguity in Organization Theory
Ambiguity in Organization Theory

Author: Giulia Cappellaro

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-01-31

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1009358472

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This Element presents and discusses the main trajectories in the evolution of the concept of ambiguity and the most relevant theoretical contributions developed around it. It specifically elaborates on both the intrinsic perspectives on ambiguity as an inherent part of organizational decision-making processes and the more recent strategic perspectives on discursively constructed strategic ambiguity. It helps illuminate the path ahead of organizational scholars and offers new avenues for future research. This is important given the ever more pervasive presence of ambiguity in and around organizations and societies.

Cultural Entrepreneurship
Cultural Entrepreneurship

Author: Michael Lounsbury

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-01-24

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1108335020

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This Element provides an overview of cultural entrepreneurship scholarship and seeks to lay the foundation for a broader and more integrative research agenda at the interface of organization theory and entrepreneurship. Its scholarly agenda includes a range of phenomena from the legitimation of new ventures, to the construction of novel or alternative organizational or collective identities, and, at even more macro levels, to the emergence of new entrepreneurial possibilities and market categories. Michael Lounsbury and Mary Ann Glynn develop novel theoretical arguments and discuss the implications for mainstream entrepreneurship research, focusing on the study of entrepreneurial processes and possibilities.

Comprehending the Incomprehensible
Comprehending the Incomprehensible

Author: Donald Palmer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-26

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1108334113

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This Element describes child sexual abuse and the formal organizations in which it can occur, reviews extant perspectives on child abuse, and explains how an organization theory approach can advance understanding of this phenomenon. It then elaborates the main paths through which organizational structures can influence child sexual abuse in organizations and analyze how these structures operate through these paths to impact the perpetration, detection, and response to abuse. The analysis is illustrated throughout with reports of child sexual abuse published in a variety of sources. The Element concludes with a brief discussion of the policy implications of this analysis.

Starting Points
Starting Points

Author: Bob Hinings

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-16

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 110869313X

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This Element reviews the first 120 years of organization theory, examining its development from the sociology of organizations and management theory. It is initially organized around two streams of thought. The first is found in political economy and the sociology of organizations, with an emphasis on understanding the new organizations that arose in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The second derives from practitioner–scholars, whose aim was to provide theories and approaches to managing these new organizations. The Element then shows how each of the streams of understanding and managing came together to produce organization theory. In doing this, it also describes how the institutional frameworks in academic associations, academic centres and journals came out of these approaches and how they strengthened the development of organization theory.