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Creating Adventures in Wonderland: The Journey Metaphor and Environmental Sustainability
Abstract
This paper provides a critical exploration of the journey metaphor promoted in much business discourse on sustainability—in corporate reports and advertisements, and in commentaries by business and professional associations. The portrayal of ‘sustainability as a journey’ evokes images of organizational adaptation, learning, progress, and a movement away from business-as-usual practices. The journey metaphor, however, masks the issue of towards what it is that businesses are actually, or even supposedly, moving. It is argued that in constructing ‘sustainability as a journey’, business commentators and other purveyors of corporate rhetoric can avoid becoming embroiled in debates about future desirable and sustainable states of affairs—states of affairs, perhaps, which would question the very raison d’être for some organizations and their outputs. ‘Sustainability as a journey’ invokes a subtle and powerful use of language that appears to seriously engage with elements of the discourse around sustainable development and sustainability, but yet at the same time, paradoxically, may serve to further reinforce business-as-usual.
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- Milne, M. J., Kearins, K., & Walton, S.
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- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2006-11
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 801-839
- ISSN
- 1350-5084 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7323
- OpenAlex
- W1994590651
- Cited by
- 425
- References
- 120
- FWCI
- 21.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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