The political ecology of automobile recycling in Europe
(2002) In Organization Studies 23(4). p.639-665- Abstract
- This paper addresses the relationship between organizations and the natural environment from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. In doing so, it contributes in three ways. First, it satisfies the need for more political perspectives in enviromnent-related research. Second, by analyzing the end-of-life vehicle issue that the European automobile industry addressed in the 1990s, the paper satisfies the need of developing research that integrates organizational and field-level analysis. Finally, the use of the political ecology framework for the analysis of the end-of-life vehicle issue contributes to the development of a more politically charged institutional theory in which, as the study shows, both inertia and change in... (More)
- This paper addresses the relationship between organizations and the natural environment from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. In doing so, it contributes in three ways. First, it satisfies the need for more political perspectives in enviromnent-related research. Second, by analyzing the end-of-life vehicle issue that the European automobile industry addressed in the 1990s, the paper satisfies the need of developing research that integrates organizational and field-level analysis. Finally, the use of the political ecology framework for the analysis of the end-of-life vehicle issue contributes to the development of a more politically charged institutional theory in which, as the study shows, both inertia and change in organizational fields depend on circuits of political ecology. (Less)
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- author
- Orsato, Renato LU ; den Hond, Frank and Clegg, Stewart R.
- organization
- publishing date
- 2002
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- end-of-life vehicles, institutional theory, organization and environment, political ecology
- in
- Organization Studies
- volume
- 23
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 639 - 665
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
- external identifiers
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- wos:000180126100006
- scopus:0042045756
- ISSN
- 1741-3044
- DOI
- 10.1177/0170840602234006
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 340959d6-54b2-43c6-9b1b-25a29585b401 (old id 892128)
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title = {{The political ecology of automobile recycling in Europe}},
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doi = {{10.1177/0170840602234006}},
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