Kommunale Nachhaltigkeit durch Organisationslernen?: Ein Plädoyer für Bescheidenheit. Pamme, H. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 14:57-65, 2005.
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Organizational learning is often seen as an opportunity for local sustainability strategies. However, by making use of special views in organizational sociology, this paper argues that it will actually be very difficult to increase the ecological efficiency of local governments using the concepts of organizational learning. The challenge lies in the fact that organizations like local govern- ments have certain dynamics that hinder environmental progress. For example, local governments are typically embedded in com- plex surroundings and cannot be independent in their decisions. Moreover, they tend to aim at achieving acceptance rather than at solving problems. Additionally, such organizations are charac- terized by relationships of power. The paper evaluates these con- ceptual considerations by looking at the decision making and im- plementation of Local Agenda 21 Processes, the Environmental Impact Assessment, as well as the Environmental Management and Audit Scheme. Returning to organizational sociology, the author concludes that organizational learning for sustainability is easier if the method of recursive reorganisation is applied because it can integrate the difficulties of organizational learning into the learning process.
@article{Pamme2005,
   abstract = {Organizational learning is often seen as an opportunity for local sustainability strategies. However, by making use of special views in organizational sociology, this paper argues that it will actually be very difficult to increase the ecological efficiency of local governments using the concepts of organizational learning.
The challenge lies in the fact that organizations like local govern- ments have certain dynamics that hinder environmental progress. For example, local governments are typically embedded in com- plex surroundings and cannot be independent in their decisions. Moreover, they tend to aim at achieving acceptance rather than
at solving problems. Additionally, such organizations are charac- terized by relationships of power. The paper evaluates these con- ceptual considerations by looking at the decision making and im- plementation of Local Agenda 21 Processes, the Environmental Impact Assessment, as well as the Environmental Management and Audit Scheme. Returning to organizational sociology, the author concludes that organizational learning for sustainability
is easier if the method of recursive reorganisation is applied because it can integrate the difficulties of organizational learning into the learning process.},
   author = {Hildegard Pamme},
   isbn = {393658169X},
   issue = {1},
   journal = {GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society},
   keywords = {Environmental Impact Assessment,Environmental Management and Audit Scheme,Local Agenda 21,local sustainability,organizational learning,recursive reorganisation},
   pages = {57-65},
   title = {Kommunale Nachhaltigkeit durch Organisationslernen?: Ein Plädoyer für Bescheidenheit.},
   volume = {14},
   url = {www.ingentaconnect.com},
   year = {2005},
}

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