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Using deliberation as a method to navigate value tensions in corporate sustainability : a bottom-up approach
Sha, A. (2024) Using deliberation as a method to navigate value tensions in corporate sustainability : a bottom-up approach.
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| Abstract: | Corporations have increasingly been asked to accommodate and operate within the boundaries of the environment. As a result of this, firms have been incorporating sustainability into their strategies, leading to the development of corporate sustainability. Corporate sustainability is a place where value tensions arise due to the different values that sustainability prioritises, which are related to justice, and the values which corporations have traditionally prioritised, such as monetary gain over protecting the environment. Leaving these value tensions unaddressed leads to a risk of inaction from corporations when it comes to acting more sustainably. Current research suggests that bottom-up approaches are a helpful way to resolve value tensions. This research, therefore, formulated a way in which firms can facilitate such a bottom-up approach by drawing from the concept of deliberation. In doing so, this research used a design-based approach, which centres around identifying a problem and designing a solution concept which helps address that problem. The solution concept this research formulated was the use of deliberation in facilitating a bottom-up approach within firms. This research builds on existing research which applied deliberation to environmental governance and applied it specifically to the corporate context. The findings of this research suggest that despite the inability to adhere fully to the assumptions of deliberation when applying it to the corporate context, such as no power dynamics and the ability to reach a full consensus, deliberation is a fitting method for providing a bottom-up approach to corporate sustainability. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Programme: | Business Administration MSc (60644) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/103839 |
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