Abstract
This special issue presents six articles and two invited editorials that explore the antecedents, mechanisms, and consequences of regenerative organizing. Together, they draw on a range of disciplines from both organizational and environmental sciences to discover, theorize, and illustrate life-giving intersections between humans and natural ecosystems in Anthropocene. This introduction provides an overview of the reasons for, and especially the possibilities of, regenerative organizing as we stress the limits of planetary boundaries in a post-climate change world.
Highlights
Inspired by ecological embeddedness and sensemaking (Whiteman & Cooper, 2000; 2011), organization and management studies have very recently begun to embrace the possibility of deeper levels of human-nature entanglement, for example through industrial symbiosis (Walls & Paquin, 2015), venture synchronicity (Muñoz & Cohen, 2017), biomimicry (Mathews, 2011; Fernhaber & Stark, 2019), place-making (Shrivastava & Kennelly, 2013; Guthey et al 2013; Masterson et al 2017); relationality and relational agency (Good & Thorpe, 2020; Heikkurinen et al, 2021), and time-spacecompression (Bansal & Knox-Hayes, 2013)
Regeneration offers a fundamental shift in perspective whereby organizing responds to the needs for continued functioning and flourishing of social-ecological systems rather than based on the current goals and existing capabilities of a organization. This special issue calls for, and features, models of generative organizing that “enhance, and thrive through, the health of social-ecological systems in a co-evolutionary process” (Hahn & Tampe, 2021: 456). To encapsulate this new phenomenon, we introduce the notion of regenerative organizing, as the process of sensing and embracing surrounding living ecosystems, aligning organizational knowledge, decision-making, and actions to these systems’ structures and dynamics and acting in conjunction, in a way that allows for ecosystems to regenerate, build resilience and sustain life
We invite the reader to immerse in the wisdom of the two editorials and six papers and reclaim the intersection of human and natural ecosystems as a vital arena for management and organization
Summary
This special issue invites us to rethink how new relationships between modern human organizations and the natural world can be formed and maintained (Newton, 2002) and the many ways in which economic ecosystems can evolve in connection with ecological ones (Drengson, 2005). Our special issue invites management and organization scholars to regenerate.
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