Exploring Corporate Eco-modernism: Challenging Corporate Rhetoric and Scientific Discourses
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چکیده
Despite the fact that environmental problems have been recognised as legitimate phenomena since the early 1970s, they did not really attract the attention of industrialists and management theorists until the beginning of the 1990s. During the last ten years, industry has been central in shaping a new corporate environmentalism. Now, we argue, it is time to take a critical look at the nature and scope of corporate actions and scientific research within the field of corporate environmental management. This paper takes a starting point in the assertions that: (i) available evidence indicates that the carrying capacity of the environment is in several respects being exceeded, and (ii) environmental progress is hindered by an inherent self-interest (both producers and consumers). Based on epistemological as well as empirical analyses, the paper concludes that industry has succeeded in taking over the environmental debate and turning it into a question of self-regulated eco-modernist actions.
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