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Sustainability : A Key Idea for Business and Society de Suzanne Benn

Sustainability : A Key Idea for Business and Society: Key Ideas in Business and Management

Autor Suzanne Benn, Melissa Edwards, Tim Williams
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2021

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.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367077020
ISBN-10: 0367077027
Pagini: 164
Ilustrații: 3 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.04 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
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Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

1. Introduction to Sustainability 2. Current Trends Shaping the Sustainability Imperative 3. The Sustainability Imperative in Business: Drawing on and across Disciplines 4. Managing the Sustainability Imperative: Tools and Technologies 5. The Sustainability Imperative in Practice: Social Context 6. Future Sustainability Trends: Shaping the Imperative

Notă biografică

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.

Recenzii

"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

Descriere

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.