Sustainable by Design: Economic Development and Natural Resources Use - Softcover

Wandemberg, JC

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1980250952 ISBN 13: 9781980250951

Publisher: Independently published, 2018

Synopsis

This research is focused on the identification and enhanced understanding of systemic issues in general (e.g., economic, organizational, environmental) and human behavior in particular (e.g., participation, commitment, responsibility) leading to resource misallocation, over-exploitation, and unsustainable project outcomes. The approach used transcends conventional neoclassical welfare economics. Human behaviors, such as participation and commitment, and factors that influence and motivate those behaviors (e.g., economic, organizational, environmental) are central to any understanding of how to design for sustainable outcomes and for the mitigation/elimination of negative externalities. Research has shown that all organizations (formal or informal) make a conscious or unconscious choice between the only two possible genotypic organizational structures, (1) bureaucratic and, (2) participative-democratic. The effects of this choice on individual and collective behaviors (i.e., goal-seeking vs. ideal-seeking), and the management implications thereof, are profoundly different. A review of literature on projects conducted throughout the world correlates project effectiveness (i.e., success in meeting project objectives and maintaining the desired outcomes) and negative outcomes (i.e., failure to meet project objectives and maintaining the desired outcomes, misallocation of resources and negative externalities) with specific types of project organizational structures.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1980250952
• ISBN 13: 9781980250951
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Diemer Joel