Beyond Mechanism: An Organicist Business Education for the Anthropocene

Neville R. Ellis ()
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Neville R. Ellis: The University of Western Australia

A chapter in Disciplining the Undisciplined?, 2018, pp 21-38 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Human actions have pushed planetary systems beyond their normal range of operation, bringing forth a new geological epoch of its own making. The AnthropoceneAnthropocene —the age of humankind—is argued here to represent a failure of the higher educationhigher education system (and business schoolsbusiness schools in particular) to prepare society for the challenges of transforming towards true socialsocial -ecological sustainabilitysustainability . In turn, it will be demonstrated that adherence to normative ‘mechanisticmechanistic ’ modes of thought has prevented mainstream business education from effectively engaging with this task, and that a reorientation towards an organicistorganicist worldview is required. In doing so, the contours of business education are redefined to embrace holism, social-ecological complexity and ethical care for nature. Two organicist principles—social-ecological systems thinking and positive ecological reciprocity—are presented here as a starting point to imagine a business education fit for purpose in the twenty-first century.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71449-3_2

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