Environmental risks to humans are not new - history is replete with examples of societies that collapsed alongside ecosystem change (Diamond, 2005). We know that numerous societies have suered because of environmental pollution from organizational operations (King & Lenox, 2000; Maguire & Hardy, 2009, Maguire & Hardy, 2013) and from industrial accidents (Gephart, 1984: Tsoukas, 1999).

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