TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Corporate corruption of the environment: sustainability as a process of compromise
JO  - British journal of sociology
A1  - Nyberg, Daniel
A1  - Wright, Christopher
SP  - 405
EP  - 424
VL  - 64
IS  - 3
N2  - A key response to environmental degradation, climate change and declining biodiversity has been the growing adoption of market principles in an effort to better value the social good of nature. Through concepts such as ?natural capitalism? and ?corporate environmentalism?, nature is increasingly viewed as a domain of capitalist endeavour. In this article, we use convention theory and a pluralist understanding of social goods to investigate how the social good of the environment is usurped by the alternate social good of the market. Through analysis of interviews with sustainability managers and corporate documentation, we highlight how organizational actors employ compromise to temporally settle disputes between competing claims about environmental activities. Our findings contribute to an understanding of the processes of empirically grounded critique and the under-theorized concept of compromise between social goods. Rather than protecting the environment, the corporate promotion of sustainability facilitates the corruption of the social good of the environment and its conversion into a market commodity.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0007-1315
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12025
ID  - ref1
ER  -