Transformation Of Business Organization Towards Sustainability

Author : Jurgis Kazimieras Staniškis,Eglė Staniškienė,Živilė Stankevičiūtė,Asta Daunorienė,Joana Ramanauskaitė
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030932985

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Transformation of Business Organization Towards Sustainability by Jurgis Kazimieras Staniškis,Eglė Staniškienė,Živilė Stankevičiūtė,Asta Daunorienė,Joana Ramanauskaitė Pdf

We have entered a new era where business, technologies, communities, and even pandemic deceases cross borders with unprecedented speed and intensity. 2030 Agenda and 17 SDGs reflect the global community's high expectations of finally reversing the destruction of our natural and social habits, and achieving a more balanced and equitable pathways toward well-being of all. However, despite the initial efforts, the world is not on track to achieving the most of the 169 targets that comprise the goals. It is evident that we have a system problem, so we need a system solution. Authors presented a hierarchical system consisting of two-level management systems: first level—unsustainability reduction systems and second level—control system for transformations toward sustainability. The book clearly shows that implementation of systems for unsustainability reduction and for transformations toward sustainability is possible, and that sufficient knowledge is available to get started. It is designed for researchers, practitioners, and politicians.

Author : Mark Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135271688

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Organizational Transformation for Sustainability by Mark Edwards Pdf

During the 21st century organizations will undergo a level of radical and global change that has rarely been seen before. This transformation will come as a result of the environmental, social and economic challenges that now confront organisations in all their activities. But are our understandings and theories of change up to the task of meeting these challenges? Will we be able to develop sustaining visions of how organizations might contribute to the long-term viability of our interdependent global communities? Organizational Transformation for Sustainability: An Integral Metatheory offers some innovative answers to the big questions involved in organizational sustainability and the radical changes that organizations will need to undergo as we move into the third millennium. This new approach comes from the emerging field of integral metatheory. Edwards shows how a "Big Picture" view of organisational transformation can contribute to our understanding of, and search for, organisational sustainability. There are four key themes to the book: i) the need for integrative metatheories for organisational change; ii) the development of a general research method for building metatheory; iii) the description of an integral metatheory for organisational sustainability; and iv) the discussion of the implications of this metatheory for organisational change and social policy regarding sustainability. This book brings a unique and important orienting perspective to these issues.

Author : Samuel Sebhatu,Bo Enquist,Bo Edvardsson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000411645

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Business Transformation for a Sustainable Future by Samuel Sebhatu,Bo Enquist,Bo Edvardsson Pdf

Interconnecting the concepts of sustainability, innovation and transformation, this book explains how organizations have successfully transformed themselves and wider society to foster a more sustainable future, and identifies the difficulties and challenges along the way. Part of the Principle of Responsible Management Education (PRME) series, the book promotes a strong voice for meeting sustainability challenges for transformative change in a globalized world through business education and practice. A transition to a more sustainable way of doing business can only be attained by combining technology with profound system innovations and lifestyle changes. The chapters in the book, each written by a strong and well-recognized team of researchers in the field, open up the discussion about a new partnership between sustainability, innovation, and transformation that includes the global society (big world), the biosphere (small planet), and also requires a deep mind shift. The book presents cases from business (including Ikea and Eataly) and other service networks including the Base of the Pyramid (BoP), and illustrates how these organizations have transformed themselves for a sustainable future. The research perspectives are macro (policies and legislation), meso (institutional practices) and micro (business practices and individual behavior). This book is where research meets real-world business and societal practice. The chapters are grounded in business research, specifically the interdependencies between sustainability, innovation, and transformation, which makes for a robust basis for describing, explaining, and understanding the complex challenges faced by business and society in the 21st century. The book is intended for graduate- and postgraduate-level students and executive education with implications for practitioners. Furthermore, it contributes to multidisciplinary research in the field of interaction between business and society with a view to extending the firm-centric view to encompass a broader, systemic, and dynamic understanding of business and societal transformation.

Author : Nancy Bocken,Paavo Ritala,Laura Albareda,Robert Verburg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319973852

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Innovation for Sustainability by Nancy Bocken,Paavo Ritala,Laura Albareda,Robert Verburg Pdf

The aim of this edited book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the opportunities and challenges related to innovation for sustainability. Combining work from both emerging and established scholars in different academic fields, this book provides an integrated understanding of the topic from four perspectives. First, the big picture: frameworks, types, and drivers; second, strategy and leadership; third, measurement and assessment and fourth, tools, methods and technologies. Chapter 11 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. The editors donate their remuneration for this book to conservation organisation the WWF.

Author : Axel Sommer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642288487

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Managing Green Business Model Transformations by Axel Sommer Pdf

Environmental sustainability creates both tremendous business opportunities and formidable threats to established companies across virtually all industry sectors. Yet many companies tackle the issue in a superficial or passive way, rather than considering fundamental changes to their existing business models. By ignoring the opportunities of Green Business Model Transformations, companies exclude themselves from a large variety of potential means to create economic value. In addition to ordinary product and process innovations, they can change “the rules of the game” within an industry towards environmental sustainability. Green Business Model Transformations, however, are challenging ventures: New, green business models with all their uncertainties and inherent complex systemic characteristics are difficult to design, assess, and implement successfully, particularly in the context of established companies that often entail complex structures and considerable inertia. As a result, there is a great need for guidance in management practice. This publication addresses this need with a general approach to Managing Green Business Model Transformations that is based on a broad theoretical foundation, illustrated by many real-world examples from various industry sectors.

Author : Young Won Park,Ye Jin Park
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811634604

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship for Sustainability by Young Won Park,Ye Jin Park Pdf

This book addresses the dilemma that firms face in engaging in corporate social responsibility (CSR) while maintaining a financially sustainable business model in the era of digital transformation. Several strategies that firms have taken to integrate CSR within the business model are also highlighted. To explicate the problems involved, the book primarily focuses on entrepreneurial ventures, given their nascent business model that best illustrates how business leaders can embed the social mission in the firm at the beginning of organizational founding. In this age, sustainability is an innovation’s new frontier. For sustainable competitive advantage, the book argues for how companies can build more sustainable products, processes, and practices that benefit the firm and society through maintaining an entrepreneurial philosophy. The target readership consists of academics, students, and practitioners in the areas of entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, organizational theory, and strategic management. This book clarifies the critical practices of sustainability-oriented innovative firms and creative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Through a review of recent trends in CSR, the authors emphasize that CSR is no longer a “bolt-on” or some kind of window-dressing to satisfy public relations (PR) needs. Credible CSR is critical to business legitimacy and sustainability. Aware of the public’s increasing scrutiny, companies are increasingly ramping up their focus on social responsibility, whether by championing women's rights, protecting the environment, or attempting to obliterate poverty, on local, national, or global levels. Simultaneously, more firms face accusations of “greenwashing” – backlash due to consumer mistrust in the intentions behind their CSR practices. While numerous works have highlighted this dilemma and how companies fall short in their prosocial goals or financial objectives (or both), there is a lack of understanding of the ingredients and crucial processes required for the successful implementation of CSR in entrepreneurial enterprises. This book serves to fill that gap.

Author : Peter E. Wells
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781001530

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Business Models for Sustainability by Peter E. Wells Pdf

Business Models for Sustainability breaks new ground by combining three important insights. First, achieving sustainability requires socio-technical transitions that entail new technologies, production processes, lifestyles, and consumption patterns. Second, firms play crucial roles in mediating between sustainable production and consumption. Third, radical innovations require organizational innovations and new business models. Peter Wells successfully combines these big picture ideas with rich in-depth case studies drawing on years of accumulated expertise. Highly recommended. Frank W. Geels, University of Manchester, UK and Chairman of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network With increasing awareness that innovative technology alone is insufficient to make sustainable lifestyles a reality, this book brings into sharp focus the need to create radical new business models. This insightful book provides a theoretically grounded but also realistic account of how the design of business models can be a critical component in the overall transition to sustainability, and one that transcends the usual focus on innovative technology. Weaving together key principles and components for business sustainability, the book highlights five very different pathways to the future for sectors ranging from microbreweries and printing through to clothing, mobility and plastics. Business has only just started the first few tentative steps towards a very different approach to creating and sustaining value, but this book concludes that enormous opportunities will emerge alongside new ways of creating and capturing value. Academics and postgraduate students in the fields of sustainable business, business organisations and industrial ecology will find this book brings a greater understanding of business strategy and structure to the discipline. While traditionally referenced and structured, this academic book is accessibly written with key principles that may also appeal to the consultant community.

Author : Wayne Visser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642408748

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CSR 2.0 by Wayne Visser Pdf

The book examines the evolution and current state of corporate social responsibility (CSR), using a five-stage maturity model: defensive, charitable, promotional, strategic and transformative CSR. The first four stages are dubbed CSR 1.0 and characterise most current CSR practice, while the fifth stage is named CSR 2.0 (also transformative or systemic CSR) and describes emergent and future CSR practices. Reasons are given why CSR 1.0 approaches have failed to have any significant impact on the most serious global social, environmental and ethical challenges. The emergent CSR 2.0 will then be explored in detail by elaborating on five principles underlying the new approach, including: creativity, scalability, responsiveness, glocality and circularity. A four-part DNA Model is also introduced, covering value creation, good governance, societal contribution and ecological integrity, which provides the basis for defining and measuring CSR 2.0. Finally, a 70-question CSR 2.0 self-assessment diagnostic tool developed by the author is presented, with sample data to show how the tool can be used for future research and practitioner application.

Author : Mark Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135271695

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Organizational Transformation for Sustainability by Mark Edwards Pdf

Organizational Transformation for Sustainability: An Integral Metatheory offers some innovative answers to the big questions involved in organizational sustainability and the radical changes that organizations will need to undergo as we move into the third millennium. This new approach comes from the new field of integral metatheory.

Author : Bob Doppelt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1874719640

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Leading Change Toward Sustainability by Bob Doppelt Pdf

This hands-on book argues that organisational and cultural change is the key missing ingredient in the operationalisation of sustainable development. It provides a theoretical framework and a methodology that managers can use to successfully lead their organisations to embrace sustainability.

Author : Rebecca Henderson,Ranjay Gulati,Michael Tushman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Ecology
ISBN : 9780198704072

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Leading Sustainable Change by Rebecca Henderson,Ranjay Gulati,Michael Tushman Pdf

The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling - reducing our global footprint to sustainable levels is the defining issue of our times and it is one that can only be addressed with the active participation of the private sector. However, persuading well-established organizations to act in new ways is never easy. This book is designed to support business leaders and organizational scholars who are grappling with this challenge by pulling together leading edge insights from some of the world's best researchers as to how organizational change in general - and sustainable change in particular - can be most effectively managed. The book begins by laying out the economic case for change, while subsequent chapters describe how leaders at firms such as Du Pont, IBM and Cemex have transformed their organizations, exploring issues such as the role of the senior team and the ways in which firms shift their identities, build innovative cultures and processes, and begin to change the world around them. Business leaders will find the book a source of both powerful examples and immediately actionable ideas, while scholars will be deeply intrigued by the insights that emerge from the cross-cutting exploration of one of the toughest challenges our society has ever faced.

Author : Theofanidis, Faidon,Abidi, Oualid,Erturk, Alper,Colbran, Stephen Edward,Co?kun, Erman
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798369335680

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Digital Transformation and Sustainable Development in Cities and Organizations by Theofanidis, Faidon,Abidi, Oualid,Erturk, Alper,Colbran, Stephen Edward,Co?kun, Erman Pdf

In the ever-evolving landscape of the modern business world, a critical challenge has emerged at the crossroads of digital transformation and sustainable development. Businesses grapple with the need to adapt to digitalization while ensuring their practices align with the imperatives of sustainability. The complexities of this intersection demand innovative solutions and profound insights. Enter Digital Transformation and Sustainable Development in Cities and Organizations – a groundbreaking book that unravels the intricacies of this challenge and provides a comprehensive roadmap for organizations navigating the digital age with a commitment to sustainability. Traditional business models are rendered obsolete as the relentless march of digitalization transforms industries. Amidst this upheaval, the imperative to embrace sustainable practices often takes a backseat. Businesses face the daunting task of navigating this dual challenge – staying technologically relevant while safeguarding the environment and societal well-being. The consequences of overlooking this intersection are profound, leading to missed opportunities for growth and contributing to the escalating threats posed by climate change. The need for a cohesive guide that addresses these intertwined challenges has never been more urgent.

Author : Samuel Petros Sebhatu,Bo Enquist,Bo Edvardsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000411652

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Business Transformation for a Sustainable Future by Samuel Petros Sebhatu,Bo Enquist,Bo Edvardsson Pdf

Interconnecting the concepts of sustainability, innovation and transformation, this book explains how organizations have successfully transformed themselves and wider society to foster a more sustainable future, and identifies the difficulties and challenges along the way. Part of the Principle of Responsible Management Education (PRME) series, the book promotes a strong voice for meeting sustainability challenges for transformative change in a globalized world through business education and practice. A transition to a more sustainable way of doing business can only be attained by combining technology with profound system innovations and lifestyle changes. The chapters in the book, each written by a strong and well-recognized team of researchers in the field, open up the discussion about a new partnership between sustainability, innovation, and transformation that includes the global society (big world), the biosphere (small planet), and also requires a deep mind shift. The book presents cases from business (including Ikea and Eataly) and other service networks including the Base of the Pyramid (BoP), and illustrates how these organizations have transformed themselves for a sustainable future. The research perspectives are macro (policies and legislation), meso (institutional practices) and micro (business practices and individual behavior). This book is where research meets real-world business and societal practice. The chapters are grounded in business research, specifically the interdependencies between sustainability, innovation, and transformation, which makes for a robust basis for describing, explaining, and understanding the complex challenges faced by business and society in the 21st century. The book is intended for graduate- and postgraduate-level students and executive education with implications for practitioners. Furthermore, it contributes to multidisciplinary research in the field of interaction between business and society with a view to extending the firm-centric view to encompass a broader, systemic, and dynamic understanding of business and societal transformation.

Author : Dorothea Ernst
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781631571657

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Personal and Organizational Transformation towards Sustainability by Dorothea Ernst Pdf

Inspired by the WBCSD Vision 2050 in which “all people live well within the limits of the planet”, this book asks how do we achieve this bold ambition? Telling a story of personal growth and corporate transformation, it provides insights and tools for anyone driving sustainable development within their organizations and in their own lives. Discover how you can consciously use your professional role as a source of change. Learn how the consistent use of few, yet meaningful visuals, enables generative dialogue and communication for aligned problem solving within multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder teams. See how personal mastery can guide you in identifying the contribution you can make, both towards wider goals and your individual well-being. On this journey, “meaning-making” is essential. In organizations, co-creation of a shared language and an understanding of disruptive innovation are fundamental to successful transformation. In exploring these topics, the book builds on a set of core concepts: Rogers’ innovation diffusion curve, the triple bottom line (people, profit, planet) expanded with a fourth “P” (the individual), and the WWF “ice-breaker” graph which maps the environmental footprint against the human development index.

Author : Peter Letmathe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031547003

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Transformation Towards Sustainability by Peter Letmathe Pdf