Societal Challenges

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According the the authors Egerne et al (2020) about (un)sustainable and organization studies: towards radical engagement, the ecological problems we face today are a result of the political and economic practices aimed at exploiting nature for wealth. According to them, we are now a new ecological responsibility due to Anthropocene. What is this?

This is the geological period characterized by dominant human influence on the functioning of the ecosystem.

In the article Egene et al (2020) briefly explain the history of (un)sustainable practices. Why did environmental concern raised among businesses around 1990?

* Reputation
* Compliance costs
* Competitive advantage

Egene et al (2020) distinguished two epistemological perspective on sustainability: the critical and managerial perspective. These approaches both transform dominant models of management and organizational research, but they differ in the approaches on how to do it. What is the difference?

The managerial perspective approaches regards solving environmental problems by environmental strategies.

The critical approach regards solving environmental problems by addressing challenges in the political-economic premises of existing management frameworks. This approach argued that environmental issues were inseparateble from political and social interest.
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The managerial approach became dominant. However, what are the two worries about this?

- It does not address the roots of the problem, which are the political and economic practices.
- It proposes incremental changes within the system of unlimited growth.

Why is radical change needed according to Egene et al (2020) to create sustainability?

We need to move beyond the narrow focus of the business case and alter orientation towards a new way of organizing around system thinking to capture the full scope of Anthropocene, we need radical change. In this, the social-ecological well being needs to be the primary focus, and ecological case for business (instead of the business case for sustainability).

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