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The Foundations of Sustainability
Special Issue of Journal of Management Studies
Editors: Steven Floyd, Bill Harley and André Spicer
Only a few years ago, calls for sustainable management were rather
faint, one
could even say marginal. Now they have become central to organizational
discourse and practice; many organizations recognise that they have a
responsibility for the broader costs of doing business. In some cases
this has
resulted in attempts to ‘greenwash’ what are effectively destructive
economic
activities. In other cases, it has meant fairly marginal changes to the
status
quo. In more progressive companies, there has been a fundamental
rethinking of the purpose of businesses and organizations more
generally.
This has led to an explosion of concern for fair trade, green
businesses,
corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, poverty
eradication,
and more broadly, sustainable management of enterprise.
This remarkable explosion of sustainable business initiatives has piqued
the
interest of management researchers. Some, for instance, have called for
the
development of sustainable organizations, some have sketched out how
companies can create sustainability, others have studied the drivers of
sustainable business initiatives, and still others have launched
trenchant
criticisms of sustainability. Underlying much of this growing interest
in
sustainability is a wider rethinking of the purpose of organizations.
This
involves asking some fundamental questions about what a sustainable
organization would look like and what the foundations of this
sustainability
might be.
In this Special Issue of the Journal of Management Studies, we would
like to
encourage investigation into the intellectual foundations of
sustainability. This
involves asking fundamental questions about how we theorise
sustainability
and what impact this might have on organizations. In particular, we are
interested in broadening how sustainability is conceptualised and
studied in
management research. To do this, we propose drawing on insights from
disciplines such as sociology, economics, ecology, anthropology,
cultural
studies, geography and political science. By doing this we hope to forge
a
stronger theoretical and empirical basis on which future research on the
topic
of sustainability can build.
We hope to solicit papers that focus directly on the theme of
foundations of
sustainability. In particular, we are interested in papers that draw on
the
disciplines underlying organization and management theory. We encourage
papers that provide novel contributions that help to build the
theoretical
foundation of debates about sustainability in the study of management
and
organization. Themes which papers might address include, but are not
limited
to:
· The economic foundations of sustainability
· The social foundations of sustainability
· The ecological foundations of sustainability
· The cultural foundations of sustainability
· The political foundations of sustainability
Submissions should be prepared in accordance with the JMS Style Guide
for
Authors:
http://www.wiley.com/bw/submit.asp?ref=0022-2380&site=1
Manuscripts should be submitted by email to Jo Brudenell,
j.m.brudenell@durham.ac.uk and the covering email should clearly state
that
the submission is for the Foundations of Sustainability Special Issue.
The deadline for submissions is 28th February, 2011. Papers will be
reviewed
by the editors as soon as they are received and, if suitable for the
special
issue, immediately entered into double-blind review processes in
accordance
with JMS standard procedures. Please direct any questions regarding this
Special Issue to Jo Brudenell,
j.m.brudenell@durham.ac.uk
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André Spicer
Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour
Warwick Business School
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Andre.Spicer@wbs.ac.uk
+44 (0)24 7652 4513
http://andre.spicer.googlepages.com/home
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