The siesta is over: a rude awakening from sustainability myopia

Winn, Monika I.; Kirchgeorg, Manfred

doi:10.4337/9781845426859.00017

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“…The insurance-mathematical perspectives on risk prevalent in the insurance sector defi ne risks according to the expected damage and the probability of occurrence of an event (Adams, 1995;Downing et al, 2001;Helm, 1996;Smith, 1992). In light of our earlier discussions of the nature and extent of uncertainty associated with climate-change impacts, however, probabilities for event occurrence cannot be assessed quantitatively and, as a result, the calculation of expected damage is similarly fraught with high levels of error (Jones, 2000;Prato, 2007;Winn and Kirchgeorg, 2005b). This same dilemma has been observed for managing the risk of other disasters, such as so-called technology enabled extreme events, where traditional risk-management strategies based on 'known' risks are deemed too outmoded to help companies contain 'catastrophic IT-linked risks' (Rosenoer and Scherlis, 2007, p. 26).…”

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Impacts from climate change on organizations: a conceptual foundation

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Physical impacts from climate change already pose major challenges for organizations, and the trend is rising. Organization theorists, however, have barely begun to systematically consider the organizational impacts of more and increasingly intense storms, fl oods, droughts, fi res, sea level rise or changing growing seasons as part of their domain of study. Eight organizationally relevant dimensions of climate impacts are identifi ed: severity, temporal scale, spatial scale, predictability, mode, immediacy, state change potential and accelerating trend potential. Combined, their scale, scope and systemic uncertainty suggest future conditions of systemic hyperturbulence in organizational environments, defi ned here as 'massive discontinuous change' (MDC). To build a conceptual foundation for organizations to respond and adapt to MDC, the paper examines contributions from literatures on the management of sustainability, crisis, risk, resilience and adaptive organizational change. It highlights gaps for addressing both business challenges and opportunities from MDC, and suggests avenues for future research.

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“…Winn and Kirchgeorg, 2005b). Events such as sea level rise, extreme droughts or fi res 'become security concerns for businesses when people are forced to fl ee, infrastructure is destroyed, ecosystems fail, agriculture is disrupted, economic volatility increases, and some regions become uninhabitable' (Schwartz, 2007, p. 26).…”

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“…However, an important limitation of much of the literature reviewed above is that it does not consider the natural environment's full range of capabilities. Most contributors concentrated on organizational impacts to the natural environment; confi rming the bias identifi ed by Winn and Kirchgeorg (2005), where impacts from the natural environment are often overlooked. Therefore, the stakeholder debate has not taken place in full appreciation of the organization-natural environment relationship.…”

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The natural environment as a primary stakeholder: the case of climate change

2007

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In this paper, we review the debate surrounding whether or not the natural environment should be considered an organizational stakeholder. We argue for a broad defi nition of stakeholders, and present a case for the natural environment being an easily identifi able primary stakeholder when climate change is brought into the debate. We develop a conceptual stakeholder identifi cation framework by combining and extending the work of Mitchell, Agle and Wood, and Driscoll and Starik. We approach the stakeholder issue from a strategic rather than moral or ethical perspective. In particular, we contend that power, legitimacy, urgency and proximity are combined when climatic changes, such as increasingly frequent anomalous extreme weather, can damage business infrastructure, resources, products and market, overshadowing moral and ethical aspects of the debate. We also identify key implications for business and policymakers, and highlight opportunities for future research.

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AbstractWe are living in times of tremendous ecological change (Winn & Kirchgeorg, 2005). In response, the United Nations (UN) promotes a movement towards safeguarding the natural environment or environmental sustainability (ES).

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Web Communications of Environmental Sustainability Initiatives at Sport Facilities Hosting Major League Soccer

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We are living in times of tremendous ecological change (Winn & Kirchgeorg, 2005). In response, the United Nations (UN) promotes a movement towards safeguarding the natural environment or environmental sustainability (ES). Sport has not been immune from the challenges of ES and, thus, the guiding research question of the current investigation was: How does sport communicate its participation in environmental sustainability (ES)? To answer this research question this study focused on sport facilities that were home to a professional Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise during 2011; specifically, the analysis focused on the facilities' website communications on ES. This investigation utilized a content analysis process for data collection that involved four steps framed with an adaptation of the design by Krippendorff (1980) andWeber (1985). Data analysis was framed with the principles of environmental performance by Glavič and Lukman (2007) as well as ES components by Mallen and Chard (2012). The results showed that sport facilities communicated a pattern towards some ES action; specifically, renewable resource use, resource minimization, and recycling were communicated as the key areas of focus for sustainability.

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The siesta is over: a rude awakening from sustainability myopia

Cited by 52 publications

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Impacts from climate change on organizations: a conceptual foundation

Impacts from climate change on organizations: a conceptual foundation

The natural environment as a primary stakeholder: the case of climate change

Web Communications of Environmental Sustainability Initiatives at Sport Facilities Hosting Major League Soccer

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