Organizational Technological Innovation and Environmental Sustainability Regulations

Introduction

The rapid global diffusion of innovative technologies has modernized the various economic sectors (primary, secondary, and tertiary) that contribute to environmental pollution and other health risks, which in turn limits the development of green solutions. For Amburgey & Rao (1996), the advances in organizational sociology represent a key element to understand the relational nature of aspects such as culture and organizational change, two fundamental aspects to understand the interdependence established between the organization and society.

In the words of Salimath & Jones (2011), the solution aims to study the relationship between sustainability and the socio-ecology of the population. In other words, the theoretical proposal is built on the theories of organizational choice, the theory of resource dependence (Pfeffer & Salancik, 1978) until reaching the ecological theory of organizations focusing on the specificities of the sector as exercise of choices.

The Evolutionary Theory of Being Human examined from the paradigm of subsistence, development, and preservation, are the notions of sustainability established in its own origins. Humanity's progress is limited to the conservation of its ecosystem given that planetary resources are finite. Hence, the expression “sustainability” can be defined as the socio-ecological relationship that seeks the conservation and stability of an environment to maintain an ideal state oriented to future scenarios based on a balance. This is why natural and social systems present constant changes associated with evolutionary dynamics, for this reason it is necessary to balance and regulate different human actions so that future generations can enjoy the same or better benefits and resources than nature. today offers. (Quiroz, J.2023).

Thus, from the theoretical framework of organizational socio-ecology and sociological theory, ecological principles are applied to organizational study. Starting from the notion that both organizational sociology and socioecological theory serve as tools to formulate and implement socioecological principles through organizational strategies with the objective of strengthening those organizations that present low performance, resulting in new economic and social environments. characterized by non-linear development.

Socio-ecology theory assumes that there is a convergence between the organizational socio-ecology paradigm and the sociological perspectives that drive organizational research. Because the foundation of socio-ecology rests on the differentiation of organizational populations. At the same time, it addresses contemporary issues such as climate change, environmental responsibility, planetary balance, etc., and links them with other disciplines of organizational thinking. The link in question arises from the incorporation of methodological innovations such as strategic simulation models.

And although the study of socio-ecology has been widely accepted in recent decades, it has been heavily criticized because it assumes that organizational destiny is a controllable variable. However, from practice it has been shown that organizational socio-ecology is dynamic and is based on the methodology of the analysis of temporal events, which helps to extract and interpret representative situations of the underlying relationships between the data and allows to different extents with different confidence. The data is extrapolated or interpolated, and thus scenarios are predicted.

It should be noted that the so-called green revolution not only failed to provide food for the world's population but was created under invalid premises: abundant and cheap water and energy, and a non-changing climate. In some cereal regions, the rate of yield increase is declining despite increased use of agrochemicals, as crops reach the point of declining yields. Given the absence of ecological regulation mechanisms, monocultures that cover 80% of the world's arable land are highly dependent on pesticides and fertilizers and, given their genetic homogeneity, are very vulnerable to pests and climate change. Today there are more than one billion hungry people in the world, but hunger is due to poverty and inequality and not to scarcity or lack of production. The world already produces enough food to feed an expected 9 billion people by 2050.