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DOI	10.1007/s10551-024-05728-6
	Escaping the Loop of Unsustainability: Why and How Business Ethics Matters for Earth System Justice
	Schneider, Anselm; Murray, John
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0167-4544
EISSN	1573-0697
英文摘要	Contemporary society operates beyond safe boundaries of the Earth system. Returning to a safe operating space for humanity within Earth system boundaries is a question of justice. The relevance of the economy-and thus of business-for bringing society back to a safe and just operating space highlights the importance of business ethics research for understanding the role of business in Earth system justice. In this commentary, we explore the relevance of business ethics research for understanding the crucial role of business in the dynamics of the Earth system. We do so by integrating the perspectives of business ethics and system-oriented sustainability science on the basis of the theory of metabolic rift, which explains how the dynamics of capitalism result in the destruction of the natural environment. On this basis, we argue that a mutually reinforcing relationship between perpetual economic growth and profit seeking behaviour of business, which we call the loop of unsustainability, continually deepens the metabolic rift and keeps business from effectively contributing to Earth system justice. This perspective allows us to formulate firm-level and system-level preconditions for attaining Earth system justice, and to sketch a research agenda that links business ethics scholarship with questions of Earth system justice.
英文关键词	Earth system justice; Economic growth; Business ethics; Metabolic rift; Profit; Sustainability
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics ; Social Sciences - Other Topics
WOS类目	Business ; Ethics
WOS记录号	WOS:001236973000002
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/295873
作者单位	Stockholm University; Lund University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Schneider, Anselm,Murray, John. Escaping the Loop of Unsustainability: Why and How Business Ethics Matters for Earth System Justice[J],2024.
APA	Schneider, Anselm,&Murray, John.(2024).Escaping the Loop of Unsustainability: Why and How Business Ethics Matters for Earth System Justice.JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS.
MLA	Schneider, Anselm,et al."Escaping the Loop of Unsustainability: Why and How Business Ethics Matters for Earth System Justice".JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS (2024).