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Sustainability: A Key Idea for Business and Society [Kietas viršelis]

(University of Technology, Sydney), (University of Technology, Sydney), (University of Technology, Sydney)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 164 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 371 g, 3 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
  • Serija: Key Ideas in Business and Management
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2021
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367077019
  • ISBN-13: 9780367077013
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 164 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 371 g, 3 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
  • Serija: Key Ideas in Business and Management
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2021
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367077019
  • ISBN-13: 9780367077013
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:

The heightening impact of ecological and societal crises makes sustainability an increasingly urgent imperative, requiring a fundamental shift in how we understand and practice management and business.



The heightening impact of ecological and societal crises makes sustainability an increasingly urgent imperative, requiring a fundamental shift in how we understand and practice management and business.

In this book, the authors set out the key characteristics of sustainability such as its temporal and multilevel effects and highlight the complex array of sustainability risks and opportunities for business and management. Setting business within a systems perspective, the authors outline different sustainability discourses that frame how business responds to the sustainability imperative. They call for the normative and scientific approaches to sustainability to be merged so that a new transdisciplinary approach that brings together the material and relational traditions in sustainability management is developed. Sustainability work is understood as the reframing of tools, technologies, practices and business strategies to respond to the imperative. The book concludes by highlighting dynamic features of the imperative as it is shaped by the urgent need to restore and regenerate social and ecological systems. Sustainability transitions such as the Circular Economy and Net Zero are suggested as inspiration for profound business transformation.

By facing the intractable complexity associated with sustainability, this book challenges students and scholars to draw from across the sciences and social sciences to understand, reflect upon and deliver responsible business outcomes in contemporary society.

Recenzijos

"This comprehensive, wise book brings an important, holistic systems lens to sustainability and businesses. Its powerful message of reconnecting humans and businesses into and of nature should be read by leaders, scholars, and teachers everywhere." Sandra Waddock, Galligan Chair of Strategy and Professor of Management, Boston College, USA

"Managing sustainability has never been more necessary than now. But there are no simple solutions. This book provides excellent insight into the complexity of managing sustainability. It makes the reader aware of the need to embrace complexity to come up with effective solutions." Jonatan Pinkse, Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Manchester, UK

"Benn, Edwards and Williams offer a compelling account of the unintended consequences of modernity, examining risks and opportunities for business and management. In so doing, they highlight insights from sustainability sciences and the humanities, which challenge accepted understandings of trade-offs between environmental, social and economic outcomes. This book provides researchers, teachers and managers with arguments for developing a systemic approach in grappling with sustainability." Susse Georg, Professor of Sustainable Innovation, University of Aalborg, Denmark

List Of Illustrations
xi
1 Introduction to sustainability
1(20)
Introduction
1(2)
The global imperative
3(3)
Unravelling the complexity of sustainability: contested discourses
6(2)
What does it mean for business and management?
8(4)
Resistance to change
12(4)
Structure of the book
16(5)
2 Current trends shaping the sustainability imperative
21(24)
Introduction
21(1)
Planetary boundaries in the Anthropocene
21(5)
Factors in the organisational and interorganisational response
26(7)
Corporate responses to global risk
33(3)
Sustainability as a driver of socio-economic transformation or reform
36(9)
3 The sustainability imperative in business: drawing on and across disciplines
45(25)
Introduction
45(4)
Differing models for interpreting interrelated ness in systems: framing the sustainability imperative through discourses
49(2)
Economically driven anthropocentric discourses
51(2)
Sustaincentric discourses
53(6)
Ecocentric discourses: radicalising the `business case'
59(6)
From systems to organisations
65(5)
4 Managing the sustainability imperative: tools and technologies
70(24)
Introduction
70(1)
Practitioner perspectives on sustainability management
71(2)
Academic perspectives on sustainability management
73(2)
The functionalist and technocentric perspective: tools for sustainability
75(12)
The limitations of a technocentric perspective
87(7)
5 The sustainability imperative in practice: social context
94(22)
Introduction
94(1)
The `micro-turn' in sustainability research: people, practice and processes
94(2)
Understanding individual motivations for sustainability
96(1)
Making sense of sustainability
96(4)
A focus on process: strategy and strategy-making for sustainability
100(6)
Sustainability champions and sustainability work
106(4)
Rethinking agency in sustainability management
110(6)
6 Future sustainability trends: shaping the imperative
116(29)
Introduction
116(1)
Intersections and socio-material perspectives
117(5)
Expanding spatial and temporal boundaries
122(12)
Change and `dynamicism'
134(5)
Making sense of sustainable futures
139(6)
Index 145
Suzanne Benn is Professor in the Management Department, UTS Business School. She has a long history as a researcher and educator in corporate sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Her publications include four books and numerous research articles on these topics.

Melissa Edwards is Director of the Executive MBA and Senior Lecturer in the UTS Business School. She teaches sustainability in the undergraduate and postgraduate business programs and has widely published on corporate sustainability, social impact and sustainability in management education.

Tim Williams is Lecturer in the Management Department, UTS Business School. He teaches sustainability, strategy and innovation at undergraduate and postgraduate level and has a background as a leading sustainability practitioner.