The Corporation is Ailing Social Technology: Creating a 'Fit for Purpose' Design for Sustainability

Metcalf, L; Benn, S

The Corporation is Ailing Social Technology: Creating a 'Fit for Purpose' Design for Sustainability

Metcalf, L Benn, S

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Citation:: Journal of Business Ethics, 2012, 111 (2), pp. 195 - 210
Issue Date:: 2012-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Metcalf, L	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Benn, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5282-2255	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Business Ethics, 2012, 111 (2), pp. 195 - 210	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0167-4544	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/23311
dc.description.abstract	Designed to facilitate economic development, the corporate form now threatens human survival. This article presents an argument that organisations are yet to be 'fit for purpose' and that the corporate form needs to be re-designed to reach sustainability. It suggests that organisations need to recognise their agent status amongst a much wider and highly complex array of interconnected, dynamic economic, environmental and social systems. Human Factors theory is drawn on to propose that business systems could be made sustainable through re-design. They could fit their environment more appropriately by improving: Efficiency, Adaptability and Social Cohesion. Leaders of organisations would also need to take a holistic approach to alter the organisation proactively to adapt to the systems within which it is embedded. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Business Ethics	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/s10551-012-1201-1	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Applied Ethics	en_US
dc.title	The Corporation is Ailing Social Technology: Creating a 'Fit for Purpose' Design for Sustainability	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	1505 Marketing	en_US
utslib.for	2201 Applied Ethics	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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Abstract:

Designed to facilitate economic development, the corporate form now threatens human survival. This article presents an argument that organisations are yet to be 'fit for purpose' and that the corporate form needs to be re-designed to reach sustainability. It suggests that organisations need to recognise their agent status amongst a much wider and highly complex array of interconnected, dynamic economic, environmental and social systems. Human Factors theory is drawn on to propose that business systems could be made sustainable through re-design. They could fit their environment more appropriately by improving: Efficiency, Adaptability and Social Cohesion. Leaders of organisations would also need to take a holistic approach to alter the organisation proactively to adapt to the systems within which it is embedded. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

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