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作者：STARIK, M; RANDS, GP
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：This article explores the concept of ecological sustainability and applies it to organizations by utilizing a systems framework and multiple levels of analysis. The implications for ecological sustainability of dyadic relationships between the organization and entities at the individual, organizational, political-economic, social-cultural. and ecological environment levels are examined. Critical factors that influence the degree to which an organization's behaviors are ecologically sustainable...
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作者：WILKINSON, A; WILLMOTT, H
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作者：SHRIVASTAVA, P
摘要：Ecological problems rooted in organizational activities have increased significantly. yet the role corporations play in achieving ecological sustainability is poorly understood. This article examines the implications of ecologically sustainable development for corporations. It articulates corporate ecological sustainability through the concepts of (a) total quality environmental management, (b) ecologically sustainable competitive strategies. (c) technology transfer through technology-for natu...
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作者：PURSER, RE; PARK, C; MONTUORI, A
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：This article examines the historically constituted dimensions of anthropocentrism. tracing the emergence of linear perspective. a camera theory of knowledge. and the human-nature dualism. These epistemological conventions are socially reproduced in organization science and management practice in their more contemporary anthropocentric forms: a disembodied form of technological knowing conjoined with an egocentric organizational orientation. Following this critique. the paradigmatic differences...
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作者：HART, SL
摘要：Historically. management theory has ignored the constraints imposed by the biophysical (natural) environment. Building upon resource-based theory, this article attempts to fill this void by proposing a natural-resource-based view of the firm-a theory of competitive advantage based upon the firm's relationship to the natural environment. It is composed of three interconnected strategies: pollution prevention, product stewardship, and sustainable development. Propositions are advanced for each o...
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作者：GLADWIN, TN; KENNELLY, JJ; KRAUSE, TS
摘要：Modern management theory is constricted by a fractured epistemology. which separates humanity from nature and truth from morality. Reintegration is necessary if organizational science is to support ecologically and socially sustainable development. This article posits requisites of such development and rejects the paradigms of conventional technocentrism and antithetical ecocentrism on grounds of incongruence. A more fruitful integrative paradigm of ''sustaincentrism'' is then articulated, and...
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作者：JENNINGS, PD; ZANDBERGEN, PA
作者单位：University of British Columbia
摘要：Our main objective in this article is to join the growing group of ''green'' organization theorists by demonstrating the usefulness of institutional theory as an approach to ecologically sustainable organizations. Institutional theory helps to understand how consensus is built around the meaning of sustainability and how concepts or practices associated with sustainability are developed and diffused among organizations. We extend institutional theory by offering hypotheses in four different ar...
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作者：ELANGOVAN, AR
摘要：This article proposes a prescriptive model to guide managers' interventions in disputes between subordinates in organizations. Toward this end (a) successful resolution is defined from a prescriptive stand-point, (b) a set of distinct intervention strategies is identified. (c) the key factors that generally affect success in intervention are identified, (d) a set of rules to govern the selection process is generated. and (e) a decision tree to prescribe the appropriate intervention strategy in...
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作者：KING, A
摘要：Increasingly ecologists have recognized the importance of sudden and unexpected changes in the natural environment-often called ''surprises.'' Organizational scholars have not developed a theory of how to avoid ecological surprise. This article suggests one way to develop such a theory. Using ecology, systems analysis. and a historical comparison of four communities, the article concludes that organizing and managing natural resources in part as community property can play a central role in av...
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作者：MORAND, DA
摘要：Modes of social activity in organizations are frequently described using the terms formal and informal. Behavioral and situational informality, in the sense of this article. entails ''loose,'' spontaneous. more casual social intercourse and comportment. Formality, in contrast. designates ''tighter.'' more deliberate, impersonal modes of conduct. as well as settings that occasion such conduct. This article outlines a number of specific behavioral and contextual codes of formality and informalit...
