Short on time: the role of time in business sustainability

Natalie Slawinski; Pratima Bansal

Short on time: the role of time in business sustainability

Natalie Slawinski
, Pratima Bansal

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Abstract

The World Commission on Environment and Development defined sustainable development as "development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". In spite of the deep entrenchment of notions of time in sustainable development, it has been virtually ignored in organizations research. In this paper, we propose that organizations have an orientation to time and that orientation is related to business sustainability. We suggest that there exist three different orientations: short-term, long-term and harmonized. A harmonized orientation allows firms to balance the tensions between present and future organizational and societal needs and is thus most related to sustainability.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Dec 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2009 - Chicago, United States of America Duration: 7 Aug 2009 → 11 Aug 2009 Conference number: 69th

Conference

Conference	Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2009
Abbreviated title	AoM 2009
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Chicago
Period	7/08/09 → 11/08/09

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

Business sustainability
Corporate social responsibility
Organizational time orientation

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Short on time: the role of time in business sustainability

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