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Organization & Environment

Organization & Environment is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Organization & Environment rather than just read about it. In short: Organization & Environment (O&E) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the fields of "management, organizations, and environmental sustainability." The current Editors-in-Chief are Minna Halme (Aalto University) and Stefan Schaltegger (Leuphana University of Lüneburg). Formerly it was Michael Russo (University of Oregon).

Key takeaways

Organization & Environment belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Organization & Environment to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Organization & Environment from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Organization & Environment (O&E) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the fields of "management, organizations, and environmental sustainability." The current Editors-in-Chief are Minna Halme (Aalto University) and Stefan Schaltegger (Leuphana University of Lüneburg). Formerly it was Michael Russo (University of Oregon). The journal was established in 1987 and is published by SAGE Publications; it is associated with the Group of Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN).

Abstracting and indexing Organization & Environment is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. The journal's Impact Factor for year 2025 was 8.1.

History Under the editorship of founding co-editor John M. Jermier and a number of editors, the journal took an interdisciplinary direction, playing host to a variety of perspectives including critical organization theory and radical ecology. Collaboration between members of the Organization and Natural Environment section of the Academy of Management and the Section on Environment and Technology section of the American Sociological Association was at the heart of the journal's framework. During this period O&E became a prominent outlet for environmental sociology, publishing articles both from established and world-renowned environmental thinkers and younger scholars who would later become leaders in environmental sociology. The journal played an important role in increasing the influence of environmental sociology within the larger discipline.

Editors The following persons have been (co-)editors of the journal:

Paul Shrivastava (founding co-editor, Concordia University) John M. Jermier (founding co-editor, University of South Florida), 1997-2012 John Bellamy Foster (University of Oregon), 1996-2001 Richard York (University of Oregon), 2006-2012 J. Alberto Aragon-Correa (University of Granada), 2012–2016 Mark Starik (San Francisco State University), 2012–2016 Maurizio Zollo (Bocconi University), 2016-2019 Mike Russo (University of Oregon), 2020–2025 Minna Halme (Aalto University), 2025–present Stefan Schaltegger (Leuphana University of Lüneburg), 2025–present

Editorial transition On December 1, 2012, Alberto Aragon-Correa and Mark Starik became the editors of Organization & Environment. The research mission of the journal currently is to publish "rigorous and impactful research at the intersection of management, organizations, and environmental sustainability". The impact factor since that point has risen, submissions have expanded, and the journal has become more selective.

Criticism The December 2012 editorial transition was strongly criticized by (now former) editorial board members of Organization & Environment as an "editorial coup" on the part of Sage and GRONEN. According to one account, the editorial transition was decided upon and carried out by Sage independently of its editors and editorial board, without their prior knowledge or acceptance. In a statement published in October 2012, 25 members of the editorial board of O&E resigned in protest of the transition.

References

External links Official website Group of Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment Former editors' website, University of South Florida (through December 2012; does not reflect current editors or journal contact information)

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Organization & Environment

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Organization & Environment claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Organization & Environment before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Organization & Environment ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Organization & Environment

In research: Organization & Environment appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Organization & Environment in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Organization & Environment is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic journals established in 1987, Business and management journals, English-language journals, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Organization & Environment outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Organization & Environment in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Organization & Environment means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Organization & Environment matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Organization & Environment?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Organization & Environment.