Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society

Volume 4, 1993

Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting

Hev. buddy! C'n youse paradigm?

The continuing deterioration of the biophysical environment constitutes an anomaly for the dominant paradigm in the management disciplines, and in particular strategic management theory. Managers in organizations are being forced to deal with phenomena that their present world models do not address. This requires the development of a new paradigm for organizations in their environment, including new fundamental assumptions, concepts, and models of how the world works.