2024/08/20 by George Ferns · 11 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Decision Sciences · #Connection (principal bundle) #Dualism #Environmental ethics #Epistemology #Ethics in Business and Education #Management Theory and Practice #Management and Organizational Studies #Philosophy #Power (physics) #Sociology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1177/00076503241271312
published in Business & Society 64(5), 851-855 (SAGE Publishing)
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This commentary argues that business-society scholars are seriously disconnected from nature. This is problematic because our theorizing about nature largely happens as a mental exercise, thereby restricting our bodies and emotions as power means of transcending the human–nature dualism. As a solution, I offer practical ways for business-society scholars to develop a “deep nature connection.”