Hervé Corvellec
Professor
Waste as scats: For an organizational engagement with waste.
Författare
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.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap
Publiceringsår
2019-03-12
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
217-235
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Organization
Volym
26
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Business Administration
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Nyckelord
- Anthropocene
- biosemiotics
- Circular Economy
- Leonia
- Material responsibility
- Value
- Waste
Status
Published
Projekt
- From waste management to waste prevention. Closing implementation gaps through sustainable action nets
- Signs of the future show the way
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1350-5084