{"id":108,"date":"2025-08-11T16:14:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:44:05","slug":"academic-paper-update-11-08-25","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/academic-paper-update-11-08-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Paper update 11\/08\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> I have been reading around my chosen paper topic of Sustainability reporting and came across a highly relevant article titled &#8221; Management for Sustainability &#8221; by Dror Etzion , published in Nature Sustainability \/ vol1 Dec 2018 \/ 744-749<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key takeaways I got from the article that are still relevant 7 years later <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Organizations should be recognized as key vehicles for meaningful changes where varied and meaningful actions towards greater sustainability can originate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If organizations don\u2019t understand a problem and the role they play in it , how can they held solve it ?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Historically organizations operate at different time scales than sustainability challenges , Business operations views tend to be shorter term and involving tractable goals. .<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organizations tend to be effective in domains where they have knowledge and control as opposed to sustainability issues that are not neatly bounded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The choice of explanation ( around climate change ) determines the nature of the problem&#8217;s resolution.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2025\/08\/nature-article-management-for-sustainability.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of nature article management for sustainability.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a5c28d51-306b-4e83-9cfd-50428cbfbfe5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2025\/08\/nature-article-management-for-sustainability.pdf\">nature article management for sustainability<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2025\/08\/nature-article-management-for-sustainability.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-a5c28d51-306b-4e83-9cfd-50428cbfbfe5\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/brian-mullan_academic-paper-update-110825-activity-7360724906424037376-zE-u?utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web&amp;rcm=ACoAAATlqDABZ4ZHpaymYCnpvi81PQYD7YErXhc\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/brian-mullan_academic-paper-update-110825-activity-7360724906424037376-zE-u?utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web&amp;rcm=ACoAAATlqDABZ4ZHpaymYCnpvi81PQYD7YErXhc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading around my chosen paper topic of Sustainability reporting and came across a highly relevant article titled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}