In: Organization studies: an international multidisciplinary journal devoted to the study of organizations, organizing, and the organized in and between societies, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 23-47
This paper deals with concepts of power and domination in organization studies. It suggests that a sociologically informed organization theory must underline domination as the process whereby organizations and their members achieve the status of agents and the ability to act. Domination, then, is not just a negative concept: it is the very condition whereby organizations are reproduced as social systems. The text proposes possible directions to examine the constitution of organizations along such lines.
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) challenge markets, regulators and practitioners to achieve multiple objectives on water, food and energy. This calls for responses that are coordinated and scaled appropriately. Learning from water–energy–food nexus could support much-needed building of links between the separate SDGs. The concept has highlighted how risks manifest when blinkered development and management of water, food and energy reduce resource security across sectors and far-reaching scales. However, three under-studied dimensions of these risks must be better considered in order to identify leverage points for sustainable development: first, externalities and shared risks across multiple scales; second, innovative government mechanisms for shared risks; and third, negotiating the balance between silos, politics and power in addressing shared risks.
In: Gallagher , L , Dalton , J , Bréthaut , C , Allan , T , Bellfield , H , Crilly , D , Cross , K , Gyawali , D , Klein , D , Laine , S , LeFlaive , X , Li , L , Lipponen , A , Matthews , N , Orr , S , Pittock , J , Ringler , C , Smith , M , Tickner , D , von Schlippenbach , U & Vuille , F 2016 , ' The critical role of risk in setting directions for water, food and energy policy and research : Open Issue, part I ' , Current opinion in environmental sustainability , vol. 23 , pp. 12-16 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2016.10.002
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) challenge markets, regulators and practitioners to achieve multiple objectives on water, food and energy. This calls for responses that are coordinated and scaled appropriately. Learning from water–energy–food nexus could support much-needed building of links between the separate SDGs. The concept has highlighted how risks manifest when blinkered development and management of water, food and energy reduce resource security across sectors and far-reaching scales. However, three under-studied dimensions of these risks must be better considered in order to identify leverage points for sustainable development: first, externalities and shared risks across multiple scales; second, innovative government mechanisms for shared risks; and third, negotiating the balance between silos, politics and power in addressing shared risks.
