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View article: Academic leadership in a warming world: How can business school academics influence climate change action?
Academic leadership in a warming world: How can business school academics influence climate change action? Open
This Leading Questions article explores how academics in business schools can contribute to mobilising action on climate change. Given the pressing nature of this issue and the magnitude of the ongoing crisis, inaction merely perpetuates a…
View article: Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy Open
In this Counterpoint, we argue for the importance of social movements in responding to the climate crisis by challenging the taken‐for‐granted practices and policies of corporate capitalism. These challenges politicize what is seen as ‘com…
View article: Climate Action Research: What's Holding Us Back?
Climate Action Research: What's Holding Us Back? Open
Climate change is often described as an existential crisis calling for urgent action, yet there appears to have been relatively low levels of engagement on this issue within management scholarship. Contributors to this article, all of whom…
View article: Corporations and climate change: An overview
Corporations and climate change: An overview Open
Corporations are primary emitters of greenhouse gases yet are also portrayed as key agents in responding to climate change. This overview article explains corporate responses to the climate crisis at three levels of analysis: (i) political…
View article: Corporate populism: How corporations construct and represent ‘the people’ in political contestations
Corporate populism: How corporations construct and represent ‘the people’ in political contestations Open
Business implications of the recent surge in populism in societal and academic discourse have been relatively neglected. This is surprising, considering that corporations provide financial support (e.g., donations and political action comm…
View article: Elements of power: Material-political entanglements in Australia's fossil fuel hegemony
Elements of power: Material-political entanglements in Australia's fossil fuel hegemony Open
Anthropocentric climate change presents an existential threat through impacts such as rising sea levels, effects on agricultural crops and extreme weather events. However, governments, businesses and communities struggle to wean off fossil…
View article: The Roles of Celebrities in Public Disputes: Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef
The Roles of Celebrities in Public Disputes: Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef Open
Celebrities are increasingly important actors in social disputes, with their high public profiles used to amplify political campaigns and business firms utilising celebrity endorsements to promote their brands and justify their actions. En…
View article: Divided yet united: Balancing convergence and divergence in environmental movement mobilization
Divided yet united: Balancing convergence and divergence in environmental movement mobilization Open
Environmental movements play an increasingly pivotal role in societal responses to pressing issues, such as climate change. These movements are often multi-scalar, spanning locations, ideological orientations, organisational types, and tac…
View article: Turning Back the Rising Sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority
Turning Back the Rising Sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority Open
Action on climate change continues to be hampered by vested interests seeding doubt about science and the need to reduce carbon emissions. Using a qualitative case study of local climate adaptation to sea level rise, we show how climate ch…
View article: Corporations, Politics, and Democracy: Corporate political activities as political corruption
Corporations, Politics, and Democracy: Corporate political activities as political corruption Open
Corporate involvement in democratic processes typically takes the form of corporate political activity (CPA). In this paper, I develop a framework of political corruption to explain the corroding influence of CPA on democratic processes. C…
View article: Production capacity enhancements through production line simulations
Production capacity enhancements through production line simulations Open
The thesis project described in this report was conducted at Scania CV (Scania), which is a global company that delivers transport solutions to customers all around the globe. The project was conducted as a simulation study of the producti…
View article: Industry vs. Government: Leveraging Media Coverage in Corporate Political Activity
Industry vs. Government: Leveraging Media Coverage in Corporate Political Activity Open
This article investigates how an industry leveraged media coverage to publicly oppose governmental policy. Based on a frame analysis of the political contest between the mining industry and the Australian government over a proposed tax on …
View article: ‘Living at the border of poverty’: How theater actors maintain their calling through narrative identity work
‘Living at the border of poverty’: How theater actors maintain their calling through narrative identity work Open
People who have a sense of calling to their work are more inspired, motivated and engaged with what they do. But how is calling constructed and maintained within organizations? More importantly, how do people maintain a sense of calling to…
View article: Making Climate Change Fit for Capitalism: The Corporate Translation of Climate Adaptation
Making Climate Change Fit for Capitalism: The Corporate Translation of Climate Adaptation Open
As the impacts of climate change become more evident and extreme weather events threaten communities and ecosystems, so the role of implicated industries and corporations have come under growing critique. In response to calls for dramatic …
View article: Fracking the Future: The Temporal Portability of Frames in Political Contests
Fracking the Future: The Temporal Portability of Frames in Political Contests Open
Despite scientific consensus on the need to rapidly decarbonize economic systems to limit global warming, the exploitation of fossil fuels continues unabated. This begs the question, why do we continue down this path? We argue that one rea…
View article: Fracking in the UK: how could a technologically advanced society choose to destroy itself?
Fracking in the UK: how could a technologically advanced society choose to destroy itself? Open
Prime Minister Theresa May recently doubled down on the Conservative Party’s commitment to the development of hydraulic fracturing of shale gas (‘fracking’) in the UK. In the House of Commons, the Prime Minister proposed £1 billion of addi…
View article: Organizing in the Anthropocene
Organizing in the Anthropocene Open
The functioning of the biosphere and the Earth as a whole is being radically disrupted due to human activities, evident in climate change, toxic pollution and mass species extinction. Financialization and exponential growth in production, …
View article: Dash for Gas: Climate Change, Hegemony and the Scalar Politics of Fracking in the UK
Dash for Gas: Climate Change, Hegemony and the Scalar Politics of Fracking in the UK Open
This paper investigates the political contestation over hydraulic fracturing of shale gas, or ‘fracking’, in the UK. Based on an analysis of four public inquiries, it shows how both proponents and opponents of fracking employed scaling to …
View article: We can't rely on corporations to save us from climate change
We can't rely on corporations to save us from climate change Open
Climate change is now the ever-present reality of human experience.
View article: Fracking the Future: Temporality, Framing and the Politics of Unconventional Fossil Fuels
Fracking the Future: Temporality, Framing and the Politics of Unconventional Fossil Fuels Open
Despite scientific consensus of the need to rapidly decarbonize economic systems in order to avoid dangerous climate change, the exploitation of new sources of fossil fuels continues unabated. Over the last decade the global rush for energ…
View article: Got Milk? Stockholm Municipality’s Own- and Cross-Price Elasticities for Organic and Conventional Milk Procurement
Got Milk? Stockholm Municipality’s Own- and Cross-Price Elasticities for Organic and Conventional Milk Procurement Open
This thesis investigates Stockholm Municipality’s own-price elasticity for organic milk procurement and cross-price elasticity between organic and conventional milk procurement during 2008-2013. Using log-linear specifications with fixed e…