“Daring to Care”: Challenging Corporate Environmentalism

Abstract

Corporate engagements with pressing environmental challenges focus on expanding the role of the market, seeking opportunities for growth and developing technologies to manage better environmental resources. Such approaches have proved ineffective.

Interculturality as a source of organisational positivity in expatriate work teams: An exploratory study

“…Specifically, when people from different cultural backgrounds find themselves working together in an expatriate CDT, humanistic values emerge as a common currency for their interactions and human quality treatment (Melé, ). Some of the fundamental humanistic values include human dignity, acceptance, caring, and concern for others; kindness, empathy, and compassion; honesty, integrity, and genuineness; truth, justice, and fairness; trust, trustworthiness, and reciprocity; mutual respect, openness, and unconditional positive regard (Caza & Caza, ; Páez & Salgado, ; Pavlovich & Krahnke, ; Phillips, ; Renouard & Ezvan, ; Roberts, ; Shahzad & Muller, ). These values, which were clearly discernible in the interviewees’ narratives, may enhance the human condition and lead to human flourishing.…”

Gendering environmental sustainability and organization: Introduction

“…Efforts to address the gathering ecological catastrophe have therefore been described as a dismal failure (e.g., Phillips, 2017;Wittneben, Okereke, Banerjee, & Levy, 2012). Their interests are bound together while they are addicted to political and economic models premised on infinite growth and consumption.…”

“…To date, relatively little of this work has done so from the perspective of gender or feminism but that is beginning to change, evidenced by the highly successful streams held at the Gender, Work & Organization conferences in 2012, 2014 and 2016, and from which this Special Issue has been developed, new work being published (e.g., Katz, 2016;Phillips, 2014Phillips, , 2017Phillips & Rumens, 2016;Sabelis, van Vliet, & Wels, 2016;Young & Taylor, 2016) while the 2016 meeting of the Academy of Management included a stream on 'Gendering CSR and Sustainability'. However, the number of voices critiquing current organizational and academic approaches to issues of environmental sustainability have been growing increasingly louder and more frequent.…”

“…Their interests are bound together while they are addicted to political and economic models premised on infinite growth and consumption. Efforts to address the gathering ecological catastrophe have therefore been described as a dismal failure (e.g., Phillips, 2017;Wittneben, Okereke, Banerjee, & Levy, 2012). Organizational responses are characterized by a business case approach based on obtaining competitive advantage (Bansal & Roth, 2000), finding a technical fix (Boiral, Cayer, & Baron, 2009) and greenwashing (Walker & Wan, 2012).…”

“…However, the number of voices critiquing current organizational and academic approaches to issues of environmental sustainability have been growing increasingly louder and more frequent. To date, relatively little of this work has done so from the perspective of gender or feminism but that is beginning to change, evidenced by the highly successful streams held at the Gender, Work & Organization conferences in 2012, 2014 and 2016, and from which this Special Issue has been developed, new work being published (e.g., Katz, 2016;Phillips, 2014Phillips, , 2017Phillips & Rumens, 2016;Sabelis, van Vliet, & Wels, 2016;Young & Taylor, 2016) while the 2016 meeting of the Academy of Management included a stream on 'Gendering CSR and Sustainability'.…”