Making sense of sustainability through an individual interview narrative

References

• Abolafia, M. Y. 2010. “Narrative Construction as Sensemaking: How a Central Bank Thinks.” Organization Studies 31 (3): 349–367. doi: 10.1177/0170840609357380
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Alvesson, M. 2003. “Beyond Neopositivists, Romantics, and Localists: A Reflexive Approach to Interviews in Organizational Research.” Academy of Management Review 28 (1): 13–33.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Alvesson, M., C. Hardy, and W. Harley. 2008. “Reflecting on Reflexivity: Reflexive Textual Practices in Organization and Management Theory.” Journal of Management Studies 45 (3): 480–501. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2007.00765.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Alvesson, M., and K. Skoldberg. 2009. Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research. 2nd ed. Los Angeles: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Banerjee, S. B. 2007. Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
   Google Scholar
• Banerjee, S. B. 2008. “Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Critical Sociology 34 (1): 51–79. doi: 10.1177/0896920507084623
   Google Scholar
• Bansal, P. 2002. “The Corporate Challenges of Sustainable Development.” Academy of Management Executive 16 (2): 122–131. doi: 10.5465/AME.2002.7173572
   Google Scholar
• Bansal, P. 2003. “From Issues to Actions: The Importance of Individual Concerns and Organizational Values in Responding to Natural Environmental Issues.” Organization Science 14 (5): 510–527. doi: 10.1287/orsc.14.5.510.16765
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barry, D., and M. Elms. 1997. “Strategy Retold: Toward a Narrative View of Strategic Discourse.” Academy of Management Review 22 (2): 429–452.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Beck, U. 1997. “Subpolitics: Ecology and the Disintegration of Institutional Power.” Organization & Environment 10 (1): 52–65. doi: 10.1177/0921810697101008
   Google Scholar
• Beck, U., A. Giddens, and S. Lash. 1994. Reflexive Modernisation: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order. Cambridge: Polity Press.
   Google Scholar
• Benn, S., and D. Dunphy. 2005. “Towards New Forms of Governance for Issues of Sustainability: Renewing Relationships between Corporates, Government and Community.” Electronic Journal of Radical Organisation Theory 9 (1): 52–80.
   Google Scholar
• Berger, P., and T. Luckmann. 1991. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. London: Penguin.
   Google Scholar
• Boje, D. M. 1995. “Stories of the Storytelling Organization: A Postmodern Analysis of Disney as “Tamara-Land.” Academy of Management Journal 38 (4): 997–1036. doi: 10.2307/256618
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Boje, D. M. 2001. Narrative Methods for Organizational & Communication Research. London: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Boje, D. M. 2008. Storytelling Organizations. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Brown, A. D. 2000. “Making Sense of Inquiry Sensemaking.” Journal of Management Studies 37 (1): 45–75.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brown, A. D. 2006. “A Narrative Approach to Collective Identities.” Journal of Management Studies 43 (4): 731–753. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00609.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brown, A. D., Y. Gabriel, and S. Gherardi. 2009. “Storytelling and Change: An Unfolding Story.” Organization 16 (3): 323–333. doi: 10.1177/1350508409102298
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bruner, J. 1991. “The Narrative Construction of Reality.” Critical Inquiry 18 (1): 1–21. doi: 10.1086/448619
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bruner, J. 2004. “Life as Narrative.” Social Research 71 (3): 691–710.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Castro, C. J. 2004. “Sustainable Development: Mainstream and Critical Perspective.” Organization & Environment 17 (2): 195–225. doi: 10.1177/1086026604264910
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chase, S. E. 2005. “Narrative Inquiry.” In The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, edited by N. K. Denzin and Y. S. Lincoln, 651–679. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Clandinin, D. J., and J. Rosiek. 2007. “Chapter 2 Mapping a Landscape of Narrative Inquiry: Borderlands Spaces and Tensions.” In Handbook of Narrative Inquiry: Mapping a Methodology, edited by D. J. Clandinin, 35–76. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Corvellic, H., and A. Risberg. 2007. “Sensegiving as mise-en-sens: The Case of Wind Power Development.” Scandinavian Journal of Management 23 (3): 306–326. doi: 10.1016/j.scaman.2007.05.005
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Costabile, K. A., and S. K. Klein. 2008. “Understanding and Predicting Social Events: The effects of Narrative Construction on Inference Generation.” Social Cognition 26 (4): 420–437. doi: 10.1521/soco.2008.26.4.420
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crane, A. 2000. “Corporate Greening as Amoralisation.” Organization Studies 21 (4): 673–696. doi: 10.1177/0170840600214001
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cunliffe, A. L. 2003. “Reflexive Inquiry in Organizational Research: Questions and Possibilities.” Human Relations 56 (8): 983–1003. doi: 10.1177/00187267030568004
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cunliffe, A. L., J. T. Luhman, and D. M. Boje. 2004. “Narrative Temporality: Implications for Organizational Research.” Organization Studies 25 (2): 261–286. doi: 10.1177/0170840604040038
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Czarniawska, B. 1998. A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Czarniawska, B. 2004. Narratives in Social Science Research. London: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Daly, H. 1992. Steady-State Economics. London: Earthscan.
   Google Scholar
• Davison, A. 2008. “Contesting Sustainability in Theory, Practice: In Praise of Ambivalence Continuum.” Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 22 (2): 191–199. doi: 10.1080/10304310701861598
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• De Cock, C. 1998. “Organizational Change and Discourse: Hegemony, Resistance and Reconstitution.” Management 1 (1): 1–22.
   Google Scholar
• Denzin, N. 2001. “The Reflexive Interview and a Performative Social Science.” Qualitative Research 1 (1): 23–46. doi: 10.1177/146879410100100102
   Google Scholar
• Dervin, B., L. Foreman-Wernet, and E. Lauterbach. 2003. Sense-making Methodology: Selected Writings of Brenda Dervin. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
   Google Scholar
• Dyllick, T., and K. Hockerts. 2002. “Beyond the Business Case for Corporate Sustainability.” Business Strategy and the Environment 11 (2): 130–141. doi: 10.1002/bse.323
   Google Scholar
• Elkington, J. 1997. Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business. Oxford: Capstone.
   Google Scholar
• Ford, J. D. 1999. “Organizational Change as Shifting Conversations.” Journal of Organizational Change Management 12 (6): 480–500. doi: 10.1108/09534819910300855
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Foreman-Wernet, L. 2003. “Rethinking Communication: Introducing The Sense-making Methodology.” In Sense-Making Methodology Reader Selected Writings of Brenda Dervin, edited by B. L. Dervin, L. Foreman-Wernet and E. Lauterbach. New Jersey: Hampton Press.
   Google Scholar
• Foster, J. B. 1997. “The Crisis of the Earth: Marx's Theory of Ecological Sustainability as a Nature-Imposed Necessity for Human Production.” Organization & Environment 10 (3): 278–295. doi: 10.1177/0921810697103003
   Google Scholar
• Fricker, A. 1998. “Measuring up to Sustainability.” Futures 30 (4): 367–375. doi: 10.1016/S0016-3287(98)00041-X
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gale, R. P., and S. M. Cordray. 1994. “Making Sense of Sustainability: Nine Answers to ‘What Should Be Sustained?’.” Rural Sociology 59 (2): 311–332. doi: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1994.tb00535.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Garmendia, E., and S. Stagl. 2010. “Public Participation for Sustainability and Social Learning: Concepts and Lessons from Three Case Studies in Europe.” Ecological Economics 69 (8): 1712–1722. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.03.027
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• GBC (Government Business Council). 2010. The Challenges of Implementing Sustainability in the Federal Government: A Candid Survey of Federal Executives. Accessed October 22, 2011. http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local%20Assets/Documents/Federal/us_fed_GBCDeloitteResultsPresentation_092110.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Gergen, K. 2009. An Invitation to Social Construction. Los Angeles: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Gergen, M. M., and K. J. Gergen. 2006. “Narratives in Action.” Narrative Inquiry 16 (1): 112–121. doi: 10.1075/ni.16.1.15ger
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gill, P. B. 2001. “Narrative Inquiry: Designing the Processes, Pathways and Patterns of Change.” Systems Research and Behavioral Science 18 (4): 335–344. doi: 10.1002/sres.428
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gifford, T. 1996. “The Social Construction of Nature.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 3 (2): 27–35. doi: 10.1093/isle/3.2.27
   Google Scholar
• GRI (Global Reporting Initiative). 2011. Accessed November 12 http://www.globalreporting.org/Home.
   Google Scholar
• Hansen, H. 2006. “The Ethnonarrative Approach.” Human Relations 59 (8): 1049–1075. doi: 10.1177/0018726706068770
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harris, L. C., and A. Crane. 2002. “The Greening of Organizational Culture: Management Views on the Depth, Degree and Diffusion of Change.” Journal of Change Management 15 (3): 214–233. doi: 10.1108/09534810210429273
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harper, D. 2002. “Talking about Pictures: A Case for Photo Elicitation.” Visual Studies 17 (1): 13–26. doi: 10.1080/14725860220137345
   Google Scholar
• Hawken, P. 1993. The Ecology of Commerce: How Business can Save the Planet. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
   Google Scholar
• Hawken, P., A. B. Lovins, and H. Lovins. 1999. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
   Google Scholar
• Hazen, M. A. 1993. “Towards Polyphonic Organization.” Journal of Organizational Change Management 6 (5): 15–22. doi: 10.1108/09534819310072747
   Google Scholar
• Holstein, J. A., and J. F. Gubrium. 1995. The Active Interview. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Humphreys, M., and A. D. Brown. 2002. “Narratives of Organizational Identity and Identification: A Case Study of Hegemony and Resistance.” Organization Studies 23 (3): 421–447. doi: 10.1177/0170840602233005
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Humphreys, M., and A. D. Brown. 2008. “An Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility at Credit Line: A Narrative Approach.” Journal of Business Ethics 80 (3): 403–418. doi: 10.1007/s10551-007-9426-0
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Johnson, M. 2008. The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• Kornberger, M., S. Clegg, and C. Carter. 2006. “Rethinking the Polyphonic Organization: Managing as Discursive Practice.” Scandinavian Journal of Management 22 (1): 3–30. doi: 10.1016/j.scaman.2005.05.004
   Google Scholar
• Kuhn, T. S. 1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• Labov, W. 2006. “Narrative Pre-Construction.” Narrative Inquiry 16 (1): 37–45. doi: 10.1075/ni.16.1.07lab
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Linnenluecke, M. K., S. V. Russell, and A. Griffiths. 2009. “Subcultures and Sustainability Practices: The Impact on Understanding Corporate Sustainability.” Business Strategy and the Environment 18 (7): 432–452. doi: 10.1002/bse.609
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• van Marrewijk, M. 2003. “Concepts and Definitions of CSR and Corporate Sustainability: Between Agency and Communion.” Journal of Business Ethics 44 (2/3): 95–105. doi: 10.1023/A:1023331212247
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Meadows, D., J. Randers, and D. Meadows. 2005. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. London: Earthscan.
   Google Scholar
• Miller, M., and B. Siebenhuner. 2007. “Policy Instruments for Sustainability-Oriented Learning.” Business Strategy and the Environment 16 (3): 232–245. doi: 10.1002/bse.481
   Google Scholar
• Milne, M., K. Kearins, and S. Walton. 2006. “Creating Adventures in Wonderland: The Journey Metaphor and Environmental Sustainability.” Organization 13 (6): 801–839. doi: 10.1177/1350508406068506
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Montiel, I. 2008. “Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability: Separate Pasts, Common Futures.” Organization & Environment 21 (3): 245–269. doi: 10.1177/1086026608321329
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Neumayer, E. 2010. Weak Versus Strong Sustainability, Exploring the Limits of Two Opposing Paradigms. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
   Google Scholar
• Pinnegar, S., and J. G. Daynes. 2007. “Chapter 1 Locating Narrative Inquiry Historically: Thematics in the Turn to Narrative.” In Handbook of Narrative Inquiry: Mapping a Methodology, edited by D. J. Clandinin, 3–34. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Porter, T. B. 2005. “Identity Subtexts in the Discursive Construction of Sustainability.” Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory 9 (1): 102–115.
   Google Scholar
• Rhodes, C., and A. D. Brown. 2005. “Narrative, Organizations and Research.” International Journal of Management Reviews 7 (3): 167–188. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2370.2005.00112.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Russell, S. V., N. L. Haigh, and A. Griffiths. 2007. “Understanding Corporate Sustainability: Recognizing the Impact of Different Governance Systems.” In Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Challenges for Theory and Practice, edited by S. Benn and D. C. Dunphy, 36–56. New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Smith, P. A. C., and C. Sharicz. 2011. “The Shift Needed for Sustainability.” The Learning Organization 18 (1): 73–86. doi: 10.1108/09696471111096019
   Google Scholar
• Springett, D. 2006. “Managing the Narrative of Sustainable Development: ‘Discipline’ of an ‘Inefficient’ Concept.” International Journal of Green Economics 1 (1/2): 50–67. doi: 10.1504/IJGE.2006.009337
   Google Scholar
• Star, S. L., and J. R. Griesemer. 1989. “Institutional Ecology, ‘Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907–39.” Social Studies of Science 19 (3): 387–420. doi: 10.1177/030631289019003001
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Starik, M., and G. P. Rands. 1995. “Weaving an Integrated Web: Multilevel and Multisystem Perspectives of Ecologically Sustainable Organizations.” Academy of Management Review 20 (4): 908–935.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Starkey, K., and A. Crane. 2003. “Toward Green Narrative: Management and the Evolutionary Epic.” Academy of Management Review 28 (2): 220–237.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sullivan, P., and J. McCarthy. 2008. “Managing the Polyphonic Sounds of Organizational Truths.” Organization Studies 29 (4): 525–542. doi: 10.1177/0170840608088702
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Swidler, A. 1986. “Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies.” American Sociological Review 51 (2): 273–286. doi: 10.2307/2095521
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Swyngedouw, E. 2010. “Chapter 11 Impossible Sustainability and the Post-political Condition.” In Making Strategies in Spatial Planning: Knowledges and Values, edited by M. Cerreta, G. Concilio and V. Monno, 185–205. Heidelberg: Springer.
   Google Scholar
• Visser, W., and A. Crane. 2010. Corporate Sustainability and the Individual: Understanding What Drives Sustainability Professionals as Change Agents (February 25, 2010). SSRN. Accessed November 15. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1559087.
   Google Scholar
• WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development). 2011. Accessed November 12. http://www.wbcsd.org/home.aspx.
   Google Scholar
• WCED (World Commission on Environment and Development). 1987. Report of the World Commission of Environment and Development: Our Common Future. Accessed March 6, 2010. http://www.un-documents.net/ocf-02.htm#I.
   Google Scholar
• Weick, K. E. 1995. Sensemaking in Organizations. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• White, B. 2009. Aesthetics Primer. New York: Peter Lang.
   Google Scholar
• White, M., and D. Epston. 1990. Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends. New York: Norton.
   Google Scholar