Beyond Rupture, Interstice and Reform: Searching for Nuance in the Portrayal of Engagement for Social and Ecological Transition

Luigi Russi (), Cécile Renouard and Nathanaël Wallenhorst
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Luigi Russi: Campus de La Transition
Cécile Renouard: Campus de La Transition
Nathanaël Wallenhorst: ADEF Research Centre, Aix-Marseille University

Journal of Business Ethics, 2024, vol. 193, issue 3, No 2, 479 pages

Abstract: Abstract This commentary responds to the following article previously published on the Journal and Business Ethics: ‘Baudoin, L., Arenas, D. “Everyone Has a Truth”: Forms of Ecological Embeddedness in an Interorganizational Context. J Bus Ethics 185, 263–280 (2023)’. Our commentary offers a rejoinder to Baudoin’s and Arenas’ conclusion that environmental engagement within organizations is a plural field within which many different sub-positions may be discerned. In rejoining their conclusion, our commentary searches for greater nuance in the portrayal of engagement for social and ecological transition in the workplace. This is done in two steps: first, by ‘softening’ categories that conceal as much as they reveal: like Olin Wright’s tripartition of rupture, interstice and reform as distinct forms such engagement might take. Second, by undertaking a close reading of the experience of an activist undertaking training on environmental issues, who has previously left a job with a French car manufacturer. In so doing, we discern the following strategies co-existing simultaneously in this person’s story: an existential quest to frame his choices, the decision to become a broker of scientific information concerning human-made climate change to other professionals, and a state of ‘suspension’ in moving from individual consciousness raising to the initiation of joint action with others.

Keywords: Transition; Climate change; Interstices; Rupture; Reform; Olin Wright; Arendt; REconomy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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