Contingency in Business Sustainability Research and in the Sustainability Service Industry: A Problematization and Research Agenda

IF 4.2 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Jean-Pierre Imbrogiano
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Abstract

A sustainability service industry has emerged that promotes the adoption of management tools, mechanisms, and procedures. This emergence took place despite a knowledge gap of how sustainability performance occurs in businesses. To understand practices amid the knowledge gap, this article explores through problematization how the performance orientations of practitioners and researchers relate to each other in the business sustainability field. The article unearths that like the sustainability service industry in practice, scholarship implicitly accepts assumptions of contingency in research designs. Because these implicit assumptions are unattended, it seems, to date, not possible for researchers to provide evidence-based guidance to practitioners on how to address business unsustainability. In addition, basic concepts of contingency are not yet established in this field to explain performance, rendering the acceptance of corresponding assumptions unfounded. The article concludes with research suggestions for the development of theory of sustainability performance in businesses.
商业可持续性研究和可持续性服务业的偶然性:问题化和研究议程
一个可持续发展的服务行业已经出现,它促进了管理工具、机制和程序的采用。尽管对企业如何实现可持续发展绩效存在知识差距,但这种情况还是出现了。为了理解知识鸿沟中的实践,本文通过问题化的方式探讨了实践者和研究者在商业可持续性领域的绩效取向是如何相互关联的。研究发现,与实践中的可持续发展服务业一样,学术界在研究设计中隐含地接受偶然性假设。由于这些隐含的假设无人关注,迄今为止,研究人员似乎不可能就如何解决业务不可持续性问题向从业人员提供基于证据的指导。此外,在这一领域还没有建立基本的权变概念来解释绩效,使得接受相应的假设是没有根据的。文章最后对企业可持续绩效理论的发展提出了研究建议。
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11.20
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5.70%
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19
期刊介绍: Organization & Environment encourages informed discussion about the social roots and consequences of environmental problems and stimulates deeper reflection on the meaning and significance of the natural world. By critically examining the impact of human production and consumption systems on the natural environment, Organization & Environment develops new perspectives on organizations that encourage environmentally sensitive reflection, inquiry, and practice.
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