ABSTRACT
The mass extinction caused by human activities that have overwhelmed ecological systems has become widely recognised as evidence of nature's catastrophic fall. Furthermore, there is an increase, albeit slow, in the amount of focus placed on biodiversity and extinction as topics of research and debate in management studies, mainly as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The economics connected with the new climatic regime and lately the biodiversity catastrophe as well as extinction prevention, have been used to define the argument for business actions. Specifically, the subversive truth has been revealed by the global pandemic, weary lockdowns and mass extinction crises that the essential mission of businesses, governments and other types of organisations is to find ways to respect, preserve and create value for the natural environment and the variety of life on Earth. This chapter presents a naturalistic viewpoint for management research to recognise that nature's supremacy lays the foundation for maximum stakeholder value. With all the above said, this chapter proposes future management research to follow a direction of the ‘phenomenon grande’. The study of organisation and management should thus be at the Anthropocene level, focusing on phenomena that change human relations as well as nature-to-human relations.
