Organization & Environment

According to a 2012 article: "Much of the best critical environmental social science of the last fifteen years has appeared in the peer-reviewed academic journal Organization & Environment (O&E), published by SAGE Publications, Inc., a privately-held, for-profit corporation. Editors of the journal during this period were John M. Jermier (March 1997–December 2012), John Bellamy Foster (March 1997–December 2001), Paul Shrivastava (March 1997–June 1997), Mark Starik (March 2005–December 2007), and Richard York (March 2006–December 2012). Numerous MR and Monthly Review Press authors wrote for O&E, including David Barkin, Paul Burkett, Frederick H. Buttel, Carlos Castro, Brett Clark, Rebecca Clausen, Matthew Clement, Martha E. Gimenez, Edward S. Herman, Jason W. Moore, Michael Perelman, Victor Wallis, and Michael D. Yates (as well as Foster and York). O&E pioneered in interdisciplinary approaches to environmental social science, building a bridge between the Organization and Natural Environment section of the Academy of Management and the Environment and Technology section of the American Sociological Association. It was an enormously successful academic journal attaining in 2011 an impact factor based on citations higher than Social Problems and almost equal to Social Forces—widely considered the third and fourth highest-rated U.S. general sociology journals (Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports, Social Sciences Edition, 2011)...

"Nevertheless, O&E is now approaching its end as a critical environmental journal, falling victim to a corporate-engineered editorial coup which has transformed it almost overnight from an “ecosocial” journal into a “sustainability management” journal, without the prior knowledge of its present editors (Jermier and York) or most of its editorial board. O&E is now to be edited (beginning in 2013) by Mark Starik, incoming president of the Group on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN, an academic organization geared to environmental management based in Europe), and by J. Alberto Aragón-Correa, professor of strategic management at the University of Granada (Spain). The journal is to be sponsored by GRONEN and will be explicitly geared to ecological modernization (green capitalism), largely excluding critical environmental analysis and environmental sociology from its pages."

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