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Dear Colleagues,

Royston Greenwood and I are very pleased to announce the second volume of our new Elements Series is available. Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era: An Institutional Approach by Andy Hoffman and Dev Jennings applies organization theory to a grand challenge: our entry into the Anthropocene era, a period marked not only by human impact on climate change, but on chemical waste, habitat destruction, and despeciation. It focuses on institutional theory, modified by political readings of organizations, as one approach that can help us navigate a new course. Besides offering mechanisms, such as institutional entrepreneurship, social movements, and policy shifts, the institutional-political variant developed here helps analysts understand the framing of scientific facts, the counter-mobilization of skeptics, and the creation of archetypes as new social orders. This book is an excellent introduction to sustainability from an organization theory perspective, a very useful introduction to the idea of the Anthropocence, and an interesting and innovative application of institutional theory to a real-world problem.

Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era is the second element of the Cambridge Elements in Organization Theory series. Elements are small digital books that review key streams of literature and are available online or by print on demand. The purpose of the Cambridge Elements on Organization Theory is to systematize and contribute to our understanding of organizations and organization theory. We envisage two types of Elements. One will present and discuss core and emerging theoretical perspectives and approaches. A second will apply those perspectives to issues and outcomes, including those of long standing concern (such as achieving organizational change, managing innovation, the comparison of different types of organizations, etc.); and, more recent concerns (such as social, ethnic and gender inequality, corruption and wrongdoing, corporate social responsibility). The idea of this latter set of contributions is to show how organization theory speaks to these issues and thus highlights its application and relevance.

You can find more information on the series here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/elements/organization-theory-elements. More importantly, you can find more information on Andy and Dev's book here including a link to download it for free for a limited time: https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/elements-in-organization-theory/9ABDF8B93C7F67B7B2D9F8D5EC32720C.

Happy reading and please feel free to get in touch if you would like to know more about the series or have suggestions for additional elements.

Nelson

Nelson Phillips

Abu Dhabi Chamber Chair in Strategy and Innovation

Imperial College Business School

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