Dominant Management Rationalities and the Necessary Improvements for a More Sustainable Management

Georg Müller-Christ ()
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Georg Müller-Christ: Universität Bremen

Chapter Chapter 6 in Sustainable Management, 2011, pp 103-130 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Management rationalities focus on reasonable action for a company’s success. Based on the considerations of the theory of management ecology this chapter shows that the conventional management rationalities are no longer sufficient to guarantee a company’s survival in complex environments. The necessity of improving (not replacing) the management rationalities for the development of resource communities – consisting of firms and their environments – will systematically be explained. Some explanation is required to point out that the old and new rationalities may not be reduced to each other, but that they must coexist. The essential outcome is the realization that efficiency and sustainability are independent rationalities requiring different action-strategies.

Keywords: System Rationality; Decision Rationality; Management Rationality; Resource Pool; Complexity Reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19165-7_6

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