Re-Engaging With Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era - An Institutional Approach

Applies organization theory to the current period of human impact on climate change, chemical waste, habitat destruction, and despeciation.

List of contents

1. Introduction ¿ a grand challenge and one organization theory response; 2. A modified reading of institutional elements in Anthropocene society; 3. A modified reading of institutional change mechanisms in Anthropocene society; 4. Resistance from counter-cultures that deny Anthropocene issues; 5. Three archetypes of Anthropocene society ¿ collapsed systems, market rules and technology fix; 6. The fourth archetype of Anthropocene society: cultural re-enlightenment as flourishing; 7. Conclusion.

Summary

Applies organization theory to the challenge of the Anthropocene era, a period of human impact on climate change, chemical waste, habitat destruction, and despeciation. Uses institutional theory to help analysts understand the framing of scientific facts, the counter-mobilization of skeptics, and the creation of archetypes as new social orders.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Hoffman, Andrew (University of Michigan Hoffman, Andrew J. Hoffman, Andrew J. (University of Michigan Hoffman, Hoffman Andrew J., P. Devereaux Jennings, P. Devereaux (University of Alberta) Jennings
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781108727693
• ISBN: 978-1-108-72769-3
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Organization Theory; Elements in Organization Theor; Elements in Organization Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, Organizational theory & behaviour, Organizational theory and behaviour, Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business, Business & the environment, 'Green' approaches to business