dc.contributor.author | Barter, Nick | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T16:03:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T16:03:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.date.modified | 2012-06-22T06:28:14Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 21562245 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/0969160X.2009.9651812 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/41614 | |
dc.description.abstract | This essay draws upon a recent polemic by Johnson in the September 2008 edition of SEAJ `Sustainability and Life: How long can the earth tolerate the human economy?' This essay briefly reviews Johnson's polemic and challenges his equating a business to a natural living system. From there using Johnson's polemic and his views as a leaping off point, research findings from an exploratory study with organisations that have environmental/ sustainability focused missions are presented. These findings support some of Johnson's views regarding restraint and that a sustainable future will not be populated with publicly traded corporations. However, it also adds to them by exposing how the organisations interviewed operate a balancing act of mission and money, with money being subservient, but a necessary means to an end. The essay closes with a view that the researched organisations represent a `future normal'. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.format.extent | 131758 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Routeledge | |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 59 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 70 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 2 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Social and Environmental Accountability Journal | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 29 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Accounting, auditing and accountability | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Business systems in context not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Strategy, management and organisational behaviour | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3501 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 350399 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3507 | |
dc.title | Making the Human Economy More Tolerable: Organisations that Put the Environment / Sustainability First | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2009 Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, Published by Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd. This is an electronic version of an article published in Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, Vol. 29(2), 2009, pp. 59-70. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com with the open URL of your article. | |
gro.date.issued | 2009 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Barter, Nick J. | |