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This article examines the use of Internet-and World Wide Web-based learning systems in the context of business education. I propose the concept of "online learning communities" as an organizing frame for developing online learning systems. I describe some examples of online learning communities in business and academic institutions. I discuss the learning skills needed for and implementation issues in creating online learning communities.

Over the past hundred years organizational activities have caused devastating damage to the natural environment. In response, environmentalism has emerged as an influential intellectual current, and as a worldwide mass move ment. Despite these trends, Organizational Studies as a field has failed to engage seriously in environmental discourses. Organizational theories cannot adequately address environmental concerns because of their limited ideas of 'organizational environment'. This paper iden tifies and critiques these limitations. It proposes an alternative view of organ izational environment as an economic biosphere. It examines the implications of this view for creating more nature-centred (green) organizational theories.

Technological crises and disasters are becoming an increasingly important menace to society. Over the past three decades these crises have received significant research attention in the United States. This paper examines the evolution of this research.This research emerged from a specific social‐historical context of the environmental movement and the critique of progressive technological development and industrialization. Its key evolutionary characteristics are discussed in terms of the way in which research issues are framed; the expansion in the domain of research concerns; the explanatory content of studies; the proliferation of research models and frameworks; the emerging methodological pluralism and the fragmented cumulation of knowledge.The field now needs a unifying focus and anticipatory policies for crisis prevention and management. The paper proposes'ecologically sustainable economic development' as a general framework for synthesizing understanding of technological crises. It cautions against unreflexive transfer of knowledge from the US setting to other countries.

This article analyses the larger policy issues raised by the Bhopal disaster. The concept of industrial crisis is used as the analytical tool for understanding Bhopal type events. Industrial crisis refers to dysfunctional effects of industrial activities that cause large scale damage (or perception of large scale damage) to human life and the natural environment. They also put public at risk of large damage and lead to major social and economic disruptions. Bhopal was the quintessential industrial crisis of this century. Industrial crises involve three primary stakeholders - - governments, corporations and communities. It is argued that joint actions by stakeholders are necessary to prevent industrial crises. Policy issues that each stakeholder must address are examined.

Industrial disasters create occasions for the eruption of multiple conflicts among stakeholders. Victims' perspective on these conflicts has received little research attention in the past. Understanding these conflicts can lead to insights into the political nature of such disasters, and aid in developing more humane responses to them. This paper provides a cultural analysis of social conflicts that emerged in the Bhopal tragedy. It examines victims' subjective understanding of the tragedy and associated conflicts by analyzing a demonstration march by them. Victims' understanding of conflicts is significantly different from that of the government that supposedly represents them. This finding has important policy implications, and warrants further research on conflicts in industrial disasters.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Truth, Beauty, and the Financial Crisis -- 2. Aesthetic Leadership -- 3. Smashing Moneytheist Mirrors -- 4. Hence God Exists -- 5. The Art of Finance -- 6. The Play Ethic and the Financial Crisis -- 7. Cassim's Law -- 8. Managing the Global Financial Crisis -- 9. Failures of High Reliability in Finance -- 10. Wrong Assumptions and Risk Cultures -- 11. A Busy Decade -- 12. A Critique of Managing the Global Financial Crisis -- 13. Green Financing After the Global Financial Crisis -- 14. Leveraging Ourselves out of Crisis-Again! -- 15. The Normative Foundation of Finance -- 16. A Multilevel, Multisystems Strategic Approach to a Sustainable Economy -- 17. The Global Financial Crisis -- In Lieu of a Conclusion -- Contributor Biographies -- Index

This exploratory study examines legitimacy challenges to business spawned by growing inequalities. It uses aesthetic inquiry in the context of the Occupy Wall Street movement to understand the processes of organizational legitimation and delegitimation. By studying photos of slogans and placards from the Occupy Wall Street movement, we show how corporate and business legitimacy are challenged by the public. We identify different types of legitimacy challenges across organizational systems' levels. We explore implications of these challenges for corporations and the use of aesthetic strategies as delegitimation signals by Occupy Wall Street protesters in order to express their support or discontent with existing norms, values and standards.