Organizing the environmental governance of the rare-earth industry: China’s passive revolution
| Autor: | Steffen Böhm, Le Bo, Noelia-Sarah Reynolds |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Civil society Strategy and Management Passive revolution the state Environmental governance in China Management of Technology and Innovation Political science 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration hegemony China civil society Government Corporate governance Organizational studies 05 social sciences environmental governance 0506 political science Environmental governance neo-Gramscian approach rare-earth industry Economic system passive revolution uploaded-in-3-months-elsewhere 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Bo, L, Böhm, S & Reynolds, N-S 2019, ' Organizing the environmental governance of the rare-earth industry: China’s passive revolution ', Organization Studies, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 1045-1071 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840618782278 |
| ISSN: | 0170-8406 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0170840618782278 |
| Popis: | The rare-earth industry is of strategic importance for China and many ‘clean’ technologies worldwide. Yet the processes of mining, smelting and separating rare-earth ores are heavily polluting. Using a neo-Gramscian perspective in the context of organization studies, this article analyzes the dynamic interactions between government agencies, business and civil society in the development of the environmental governance of China’s rare-earth industry over the past 30 years, with a particular focus on China’s ‘top-down’ passive revolution. Making use of rarely granted access to China’s biggest rare-earth company, one of the country’s key strategic assets, the analysis makes visible the changes of environmental contestations amongst five different governance actors over what we identify as three environmental governance eras in China. Besides offering unique empirical insights into the organizational processes that constitute the dynamically evolving hegemony of China’s rare-earth industry, the article makes three theoretical contributions to the field of organization studies. First, we analyze the changing role of state institutions in a non-Western context, which has been de-emphasized by existing organization scholars. Second, we conceptualize the dynamics of environmental governance in China as a form of top-down ‘passive revolution’. Third, we problematize the dual role of Chinese NGOs as both supporting and challenging state power. Overall, we contribute to our understanding of the organization of governance systems in non-Western contexts, which has been neglected in organizational studies. |
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