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Developing Ecological Awareness and Responsible Business

Fernández López, Manuel orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-7083-1385 and Piulats, Octavi (2017) Developing Ecological Awareness and Responsible Business. Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, 27 . ISSN 1572-8323

Abstract
Developing ecological awareness in organizations is becoming a pressing and fundamental need in the still dominating paradigm of prioritization of revenues and economic growth. Emergent practices in business organizations today point towards potential development of ecological consciousness and responsible and meaningful economic activity that aims at finding alternatives to economic growth under the principles of ecological economics. Spiritual practices have been developed from ancient traditions, are interwoven into human existence and are meaningful to economic activity. From the fundamental question of who am I as a reflective process, to the meditation based practices, to the realization of the ecological man based upon an organic worldview. Cognitive and meta-cognitive perspectives are important, and they are interwoven with emotional and higher perspectives. The definition of limits and considerations of those is important to approach a praxis-based proposal that can be applied, monitored and evaluated in business. The conception of self, which can be approached from different traditions, offers a basis for introducing these limits but at the same time integrate a complexity based understanding and apprehensible knowledge about business actors. In the study if the self, we have ancient and modern philosophical considerations, as well as more historically recent psychosocial approaches that can be connected. The study of the self from a long-term perspective is connected with a place of agenciability and action to shape the future. This is related to the process of development in business leadership involved in driving and changing the business arena towards the development of ecological underpinning in the implementation of responsible business. The study of the self allows us to identify emergent ethical considerations in relation to a long-term future. Long-term perspectives of the individual allow us to explore the commitment and motivational basis for alternative ways for economic development in line with responsibility for change. Those are grounded in technological development for wellbeing of communities both from a local and a global perspective beyond mainstream strategies based on economic growth. This article proposes key foundations of a process to be applied in organizations. After the theoretical reflection we aim at presenting a proposal in the business arena that goes beyond the theoretical reflection and aims at providing a practical basis that will show potential for specific projects in the business arena.
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Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Business > Business ethics
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Institute of Education > School of STEM Education, Innovation, & Global Studies
Publisher:Emerald Publishing
Official URL:https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10...
Copyright Information:Authors
ID Code:30351
Deposited On:01 Oct 2024 14:08 by Vidatum Academic . Last Modified 01 Oct 2024 14:08
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