Organizing for Sustainability (Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness, 1) - Hardcover

Susan Albers Mohman; A.B. Shani

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857245570 ISBN 13: 9780857245571

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2011

Synopsis

A large literature has been generated about sustainability, and many organizations, governments, communities and citizens have focused on it. Yet, given how quickly the limits of the current models of the global economy are being approached, we must accelerate the rate at which we learn to operate differently. This first volume of the Emerald series Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness learns from some of the pioneers articulating these challenges and organizing to address them. There is an urgent need to grow the knowledge bases to guide the transition. Each chapter in this volume, crafted to bring together the knowledge of practice and theory, is based on rich empirical data about particular cases in which organizations are, individually or collectively, working to build a more sustainable future. Contributors bring theoretical knowledge to bear on these case examples and test the applicability of the formal knowledge base about management and organizations, while refining, modifying, and extending it to increase its usefulness in addressing the challenges of organizing for sustainable effectiveness.

About this title

About the Author

Susan Albers Mohman - Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
A.B. Shani - California Polytechnic University

Review

This new series will provide a platform for business scholars and practitioners to share new research-based insights about the organizing imperatives associated with achieving sustainable economic, environmental, and social effectiveness. The first volume explores how organizations, individually and in partnership, can focus unfalteringly on sustainable functioning while the Earth, the global economy, and society approach key limits. Most of the studies celebrate efforts by large corporations and agencies, including Unilever, Gap, the Metropolitan Housing Authority, the Port of Los Angeles, and the Cuyahoga Valley Initiative. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857245570
• ISBN 13: 9780857245571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 245
• Editor: Susan Albers Mohman, A.B. Shani