Regardless of the reasons for this disjuncture, I argue that integration of key insights from these
fields can do much to advance a sociological perspective on organizations and the natural environment.
To do this, I put forth five propositions that build on robust materialist and macro perspectives
from environmental sociology and organizational sociology’s theorizations of processes that underlie
organizational behavior. Taken together, these propositions lead us toward a sociological
materialist research agenda that focuses on theorizing and empirically documenting the complex
multidirectional relationships between organizational decision making, the political economic systems
they are embedded in, and the material environment.