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- Item type
- eBook
- Language
- English
- Publication year
- 2022
Series
Key ideas on business and management- Collection
- ISBN
- 978-0-429-02217-3
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- Content notes
- 1 Introduction to sustainability-Introduction- The global imperative- Unravelling the complexity of sustainability: contested discourses- What does it mean for business and management?- Resistance to change- Structure of the book-- 2 Current trends shaping the sustainability imperative- Introduction - Planetary boundaries in the Anthropocene- Factors in the organisational and interorganisational response- Corporate responses to global risk- Sustainability as a driver of socio-economic transformation or reform -- 3 The sustainability imperative in business: drawing on and across disciplines - Introduction - Differing models for interpreting interrelatedness in systems: framing the sustainability imperative through discourses - Economically driven anthropocentric discourses- Sustaincentric discourses - Ecocentric discourses: radicalising the ‘business case’- From systems to organisations -- 4 Managing the sustainability imperative: tools and technologies - Introduction- Practitioner perspectives on sustainability management- Academic perspectives on sustainability management- The functionalist and technocentric perspective: tools for sustainability- The limitations of a technocentric perspective-- 5 The sustainability imperative in practice: social context
Introduction - The ‘micro-turn’ in sustainability research: people, practice and processes - Understanding individual motivations for sustainability - Making sense of sustainability - A focus on process: strategy and strategy-making for sustainability - Sustainability champions and sustainability work - Rethinking agency in sustainability management -- 6 Future sustainability trends: shaping the imperative - Introduction - Intersections and socio-material perspectives - Expanding spatial and temporal boundaries -
Change and ‘dynamicism’ - Making sense of sustainable futures
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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. @ebsco
1 Introduction to sustainability-Introduction- The global imperative- Unravelling the complexity of sustainability: contested discourses- What does it mean for business and management?- Resistance to change- Structure of the book-- 2 Current trends shaping the sustainability imperative- Introduction - Planetary boundaries in the Anthropocene- Factors in the organisational and interorganisational response- Corporate responses to global risk- Sustainability as a driver of socio-economic transformation or reform -- 3 The sustainability imperative in business: drawing on and across disciplines - Introduction - Differing models for interpreting interrelatedness in systems: framing the sustainability imperative through discourses - Economically driven anthropocentric discourses- Sustaincentric discourses - Ecocentric discourses: radicalising the ‘business case’- From systems to organisations -- 4 Managing the sustainability imperative: tools and technologies - Introduction- Practitioner perspectives on sustainability management- Academic perspectives on sustainability management- The functionalist and technocentric perspective: tools for sustainability- The limitations of a technocentric perspective-- 5 The sustainability imperative in practice: social context Introduction - The ‘micro-turn’ in sustainability research: people, practice and processes - Understanding individual motivations for sustainability - Making sense of sustainability - A focus on process: strategy and strategy-making for sustainability - Sustainability champions and sustainability work - Rethinking agency in sustainability management -- 6 Future sustainability trends: shaping the imperative - Introduction - Intersections and socio-material perspectives - Expanding spatial and temporal boundaries - Change and ‘dynamicism’ - Making sense of sustainable futures.
