Clarifying the Epistemology of Corporate Sustainability

Sigurd Sagen Vildåsen, Martina Keitsch and Annik Magerholm Fet

Ecological Economics, 2017, vol. 138, issue C, 40-46

Abstract: Business research is placing increasing focus on the relationship between the natural environment and the political concept of sustainable development. Within this nexus, one area, labelled ‘Corporate Sustainability’, emphasizes the interactions between economic, environmental and social values. The need to consider multiple values has contributed to a blur in the conceptual landscape. This is partly due to the fact that authors often address epistemological challenges on an implicit level. Moreover, hidden ideologies, e.g. the profit maximization paradigm, can explain the conceptual obscurity.

Keywords: Construct validity; Corporate sustainability; Epistemology; Ideology; Pluralism; Value constructs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.03.029

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