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Metalogue: trying to talk about (un)sustainability - a reflection on experience (2015)
Journal Article
Allen, S., & Marshall, J. (2015). Metalogue: trying to talk about (un)sustainability - a reflection on experience. Tamara : journal of critical postmodern organization science, 13(1-2), 1-13

This paper considers dilemmas for organization and management scholars studying and writing about environmental sustainability. It suggests that sustainability requires new ways of thinking which in turn require new forms of representation to help fo... Read More about Metalogue: trying to talk about (un)sustainability - a reflection on experience.

Reflexivity for sustainability: appreciating entanglement and becoming relationally reflexive (2015)
Journal Article
Allen, S. (2015). Reflexivity for sustainability: appreciating entanglement and becoming relationally reflexive. International journal of work innovation, 1(2), 240-250. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWI.2015.071191

This paper attempts to open up new possibilities for reflexivity which can help promote adequate human responses to sustainability issues. It explores how predominant ideas about reflexivity are located within an individualistic perspective of bounde... Read More about Reflexivity for sustainability: appreciating entanglement and becoming relationally reflexive.

Living with contradictions: the dynamics of senior managers in relation to sustainability (2015)
Journal Article
Allen, S., Marshall, J., & Easterby-Smith, M. (2015). Living with contradictions: the dynamics of senior managers in relation to sustainability. Organization & environment, 28(3), 328-348. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026615575048

In this article, we investigate how senior managers located in Northern Europe in the energy and power industry coordinate their recognition of sustainability challenges with other things they say and do. Identity theory is used to examine the fine-g... Read More about Living with contradictions: the dynamics of senior managers in relation to sustainability.