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Hervé Corvellec.

Hervé Corvellec

Professor

Hervé Corvellec.

Waste as scats: For an organizational engagement with waste.

Author

  • Hervé Corvellec

Summary, in English

This article coins the term ‘scatolic’ to suggest a new way for organizations to think about and engage with waste. Scatolic engagement draws on Reno’s analogy of waste as scats and of scats as signs for enabling interspecies communication. This analogy stresses the impossibility for waste producers to dissociate themselves from their waste and emphasizes the contingent, multiple, and transient value of waste. Correspondingly, the article suggests that organizations grow a semiotic competence at reading waste and develop a sense of responsibility for materials. Adopting a scatolic approach to waste is featured as a way for organizations to deal with waste in the Anthropocene.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies

Publishing year

2019-03-12

Language

English

Pages

217-235

Publication/Series

Organization

Volume

26

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Business Administration
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • Anthropocene
  • biosemiotics
  • Circular Economy
  • Leonia
  • Material responsibility
  • Value
  • Waste

Status

Published

Project

  • From waste management to waste prevention. Closing implementation gaps through sustainable action nets
  • Signs of the future show the way

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1350-5084