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New directions for management and organization studies on waste
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2015)
This article presents a research agenda about waste management from the perspective of management and organization studies. The agenda suggests that scholars should draw upon research on waste governance, lean management, ...
Sustainability objects as performative definitions of sustainability: The case of food waste-based biogas and biofertilizers
(2015-02)
This article introduces the notion of sustainability objects to label objects that come with a claim to promote a more sustainable mode of living. The purpose is to show that organizations that develop such objects contribute ...
Action nets for waste prevention
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2014-03)
Although waste prevention is considered the best possible option in the European waste-hierarchy model, it is not always clear what is meant by “waste prevention”. This chapter presents three cases of waste prevention, ...
The role of valuation practices for risk identification
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2015)
This report uses a relational theory of risk within which risk is understood as a relationship between a risk object and an object at risk where the risk object threatens the value embedded in the object at risk. A case ...