持续性
平衡(能力)
企业可持续发展
社会可持续性
可持续发展组织
工作(物理)
社会学
管理科学
企业社会责任
经济
政治学
公共关系
生态学
工程类
心理学
机械工程
神经科学
生物
作者
Connie A. Van der Byl,Natalie Slawinski
标识
DOI:10.1177/1086026615575047
摘要
Corporate sustainability is rife with tensions as firms seek to balance often divergent economic, social, and environmental goals. To assess how tensions have been addressed in past research and to identify promising areas for pushing the literature forward, we conduct a comprehensive review of research in corporate sustainability from the past 11 years. We note four general approaches to how tensions are examined: through a win-win, trade-off, integrative, or paradox lens. The win-win approach looks for opportunities to reconcile social and/or environmental goals with economic goals, thus bypassing tensions, whereas a trade-off approach views such goals as being in conflict and requires that a choice be made between them. We find that scholars have also used an integrative approach to bring balance to the three elements of sustainability. More recently, a paradox approach, which seeks to understand the nature of tensions along with how actors work through them, provides an opportunity to evaluate complex sustainability issues and generate creative approaches to them. We call on scholars to build on paradox research, which explicitly addresses tensions in sustainability, and to extend conceptual work through empirical studies.
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