This Advisor presents two examples that illustrate how a new breed of business organizations is pushing beyond traditional boundaries by explicitly incorporating their understanding of nature into their strategies. These stories also demonstrate that a large-scale, system-level change toward more ecologically sustainable production systems is an evolutionary process, one that requires organizations to access as many sources of ecological knowledge as possible.
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How Companies Are Building & Leveraging Ecological Knowledge
Posted September 7, 2022 | Sustainability |
About The Author
Saeed Rahman is Assistant Professor of Strategy at the School of Business, University of the Fraser Valley, Canada. His research interests include ecological knowledge, regenerative business, regenerative agriculture, social-ecological systems perspective, and systems resilience. Dr. Rahman’s research investigates whether and how new knowledge about organization-nature interdependencies allows a business to effectively adapt to threats from… Read More
Natalie Slawinski is Professor of Sustainability and Strategy and Director of the Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada. Her research focuses on understanding sustainability, temporality, and paradoxes in organizations. Dr. Slawinski’s most recent research examines these themes in the context of the social enterprise. She has been published in Organization… Read More
Monika Winn, Professor Emerita, served as Professor of Sustainability and Strategy, Francis G. Winspear Scholar, and cofounder and Director of the Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada, until July 2020. She is a pioneering scholar in the area of business sustainability and has won many awards. Her leadership helped sustainability and social responsibility become… Read More
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