SHIFTING PARADIGMS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT THEORY AND RESEARCH

Modern management theory is constricted by a fractured epistemology. w hich separates humanity from nature and truth from morality. Reintegra tion is necessary if organizational science is to support ecologically and socially sustainable development. This article posits requisites of such development and rejects the paradigms of conventional technoce ntrism and antithetical ecocentrism on grounds of incongruence. A more fruitful integrative paradigm of ''sustaincentrism'' is then articula ted, and implications for organizational science are generated as if s ustainability, extended community, and our Academy mattered.