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Climate Change, Business, and Society: Building Relevance in Time and Space

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity and has become an area of growing focus in Business & Society. Looking back and reviewing climate change discussion within this journal highlights the importance of time and space in addressing the climate crisis. Looking forward, we extend existing research by theorizing and politicizing the co-implication of time and space through the concept of “space-time.” To illustrate this, we employ the logical structure of “the trace” to advance business and society scholarship on climate change by shifting the focus to a place-bound emphasis on climate impacts and directing scholarship toward climate change’s temporal markers and material effects. By operationalizing “the trace,” we contribute to Business & Society debates in three ways: (a) reimagining complex stakeholder relations, (b) advancing a performative understanding of climate risk, and (c) foregrounding planetary systems and the physical environment.

Source: Business & Society

DOI: 10.1177/00076503221077452

Authors: Daniel Nyberg, George Ferns, Sheena Vachhani, Christopher Wright

Institutions: University of Newcastle Australia, Cardiff University, University of Bristol, The University of Sydney

Language: English

Topic: Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4214825655

FWCI: 7.322

Cites: 126

Cited by: 41

Related to: 10