Biomimetic Organisations: A Management Model that Learns from Nature

Edita Olaizola, Rafael Morales-Sánchez and Marcos Eguiguren Huerta
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Edita Olaizola: People Plus! Profit, Pg. Baixador 17, 08195 Barcelona, Spain
Rafael Morales-Sánchez: Department of Management and Marketing, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Carretera de Utrera, km. 1, 41013 Seville, Spain
Marcos Eguiguren Huerta: Department of Management, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Av. Diagonal, 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 6, 1-22

Abstract: Since the end of the last century, different approaches for corporate management have been appearing that try to incorporate the social advances that are being produced and disseminated thanks to the greater capacity of communication available through social networks and other traditional avenues. Among the best known are Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, the Circular Economy, and Collaborative Economics. All of them add value to organisations, and all of them have a common characteristic: they are anthropocentric approaches. Our proposal goes a step further: we need a worldview that is capable of placing organisations in a position of continuous learning looking at nature, because it is the best way to integrate into it as a more ecosystem and thus achieve its flowering respecting the once to all the other subsystems that make up the planet: Organizational Biomimicry. This work compares the anthropocentric vision with the worldview at the same time that it offers a guide of the essential steps so that Organizational Biomimicry is the new model of corporate management.

Keywords: biomimicry; biomimetic organisations; corporate social responsibility; sustainability; circular economy; collaborative economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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