Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to reclaim a reflection on the limits that the traditional hegemonic perceptions on organization-nature relationship have imposed to Organizational Theory (OT). In order to accomplish it we follow two aims: first, we recover a possibility of perspective change on such relation, from the anthropocentric/orgocentric paradigm to the ecocentric paradigm, raised within Organization Studies (OSs) in the 1990s. Approaching how ecocentrism has been assimilated, in the wake of the then nascent reflections on sustainability, we show how the ecocentric perspective was relegated to a marginal condition. In the second objective, we propose the recovery of the discussions on the theme of ecology; more precisely, on the dwelling perspective as an ontology of the relation organization-nature. The contribution of the essay is in getting back the moment when the notion of sustainability became hegemonic in the OSs and in the proposition of an ecological perspective, aligned with the resumption of ecocentrism in this field.
Keywords
Anthropocentrism; Orgocentrism; Ecocentrism; Ecology; Sustainability