Assessing managerial sensemaking processes of businesses with biodiversity issues

评估具有生物多样性问题的企业的管理意义建构过程

• 批准号: 2783455
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2783455
• 关键词: Assessing; managerial; sensemaking; processes; businesses

This Phd Project will identify how biodiversity challenges and opportunities affect the sensemaking processes of individual business managers and influence or drive collective nature-positive actions across a range of different business and finance sectors.Business managers are powerful actors with respect to biodiversity impacts. Businesses can potentially be key drivers of nature-positive solutions. However, before people (managers) - and companies - can more effectively manage biodiversity challenges, they have to make sense of the situational context. Sensemaking is an interpretive process whereby actors, and organisations, interpret social and ecological cues in their surrounding and build cognitive narratives that underlie decisions (Weick et al., 1993; Whiteman & Cooper, 2011). In a complex environment, managers must pay attention to subtle cues, overcome barriers, and collectively develop 'sensemaking' across organizations which drives decision-making. If people (managers) do not pay sufficient attention, they will encounter a 'predictable surprise' - a crisis situation that could be avoided but isn't because of existing social and economic structures. In-depth studies of how business and finance managers make sense of biodiversity challenges and opportunities are largely non-existent. This Phd project addresses this gap in the literature through qualitative in-depth interviews and observations of the sensemaking processes of business actors and champions, including the identification of barriers and enablers to effective sensemaking and nature-positive business actions. Sensemaking ability varies across individuals (Schön, 1983). The Phd candidate will identify and analyse the sensemaking processes across a range of 'nature positive' activities through initiatives such as the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN), Business-for-Nature, the UK Business Biodiversity Forum, and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) which aims to provide a framework for corporates and financial institutions to assess, manage and report on their dependencies and impacts on nature.This Phd is part of the RENEW project. A principal goal of the RENEW Studentships programme is to create a new generation of interdisciplinary, solutions-focussed researchers who have experienced a rich culture including fundamental research and engagement with key partners.

该博士项目将确定生物多样性的挑战和机遇如何影响单个企业管理者的意义建构过程，并影响或推动一系列不同商业和金融部门的集体自然积极行动。企业管理者是生物多样性影响方面的强大参与者。然而，在人们（管理者）和公司能够更有效地应对生物多样性挑战之前，他们必须理解情境背景，这是一个由行动者和组织解释的过程。他们的社会和生态线索围绕并构建决策背后的认知叙述（Weick et al., 1993; Whiteman & Cooper, 2011）。在复杂的环境中，管理者必须注意微妙的线索，克服障碍，并在整个组织中共同发展推动决策的“意义建构”。如果人们（管理者）没有给予足够的重视，他们就会遇到“可预见的意外”——一种本来可以避免的危机局面，但由于对现有社会和经济结构的深入研究而无法避免。该博士项目通过对商业参与者和倡导者的意义建构过程进行定性深入访谈和观察，包括识别障碍和推动因素，解决了文献中的这一空白。意义建构能力因人而异（Schön，1983）。博士候选人将通过诸如基于科学的目标等举措来识别和分析一系列“自然积极”活动的意义建构过程。 Network (SBTN)、Business-for-Nature、英国商业生物多样性论坛和自然相关财务披露工作组 (TNFD)，旨在为企业和金融机构提供一个框架，以评估、管理和报告其依赖性和该博士生是 RENEW 项目的一部分，RENEW 学生奖学金计划的主要目标是培养新一代跨学科、专注于解决方案的研究人员，他们经历了丰富的文化，包括基础研究和参与关键领域。合作伙伴。