Sustainable Organizations

Author : Myria Allen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319180053
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Communication for Sustainable Organizations written by Myria Allen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a seminal book for anyone who wants to understand, shape or study the communication surrounding sustainability in their interactions with colleagues, employees, supply chain partners and external stakeholders. It develops essential insights on the basis of an extensive review of relevant theories and research drawn from multiple disciplines. Interview data gathered from organization members who are currently communicating about sustainability in their cities, universities, nongovernmental organizations, small businesses and large for-profit organizations provide valuable insights from a practitioner’s perspective. The interviewees represent organizations such as the Portland Trailblazers, Tyson Foods, the City and County of Denver and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Theory, research and interview comments combine in a reader-friendly way to provide practical insights and stimulate future research.

Author : Francesca Forno
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000055884
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Community Movement Organizations written by Francesca Forno and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shines a light on Sustainable Community Movement Organizations (SCMOs), an emergent wave of non-hierarchical, community-based socio-economic movements, with alternative forms of consumption and production very much at their core. Extending beyond traditional ideas of cooperatives and mutualities, the essays in this collection explore new geographies of solidarity practices ranging from forms of horizontal democracy to interurban and transnational networks. The authors uniquely frame these movements within the Deleuzian concept of the ‘rhizome’, as a meshwork of alternative spaces, paths and trajectories. This connectivity is illustrated in case studies from around the world, ranging from protest movements in response to austerity measures in Southern Europe, to the Buen Vivir movement in the Andes, and Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) in the Caribbean and Canada. Positioning these cases in relation to current theoretical debates on Social Solidarity Economy, the authors specifically address the question of the persistence and the durability of the organizing practices in community economies. This book will be a valuable tool for academics and students of sustainable consumption, environmental policy, social policy, environmental economics, environmental management and sustainability studies more broadly.

Author : Perez Rios Jose
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642223184
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design and Diagnosis for Sustainable Organizations written by Perez Rios Jose and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can organizations and their managers face the tremendous complexity of the current environment? How can their compliance with the requirements of sustainability be evaluated? And how can new organizations be structured to ensure their viability? This book addresses these questions in a very practical way, essentially combining systems theory with cybernetics to help managers to evaluate and shape organizations by making accessible the wealth of knowledge contained in these fields. Importantly, it also provides guidelines for its practical application.

Author : Jose C. Sánchez-García
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1838809627
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Organizations written by Jose C. Sánchez-García and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the multidisciplinary nature of our object of study, sustainability, we have divided this book into twelve chapters. In the first four, we cover the content required to learn how to start a business and create companies based on sustainability. The following chapters provide guidance to help translate sustainability strategies across cultures. These processes are analyzed through the Triple Bottom Line perspective, which effectively describes the primary objectives of sustainability. The last chapters analyze current trends in sustainable development, framing education as a powerful tool to facilitate the transition to more sustainable forms of development. Through these chapters, the understanding of the theoretical concepts is facilitated and examples of sustainable enterprises are made available to the reader that serves as a reference and that allow the development of practical activities.

Author : Tim Galpin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136468870
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading the Sustainable Organization written by Tim Galpin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to combine the much talked about topics of leadership and sustainability, and provides readers with a comprehensive overview and pragmatic approach to leading sustainable organizations. Chapters include discussions, case examples, steps, and useful tools centred on the components of the Leading the Sustainable Organization model. This model provides managers with a pragmatic, end-to-end framework for creating (in the case of new entities) or shifting (in the case of existing firms) their organizations’ workforces to a sustainability focus. Leading the Sustainable Organization is the perfect tool for executives and managers in small, medium, and large companies, and in all industries, to assist with the difficult and confusing topic of leading sustainability efforts. This book will be of great interest to students and academics who want to learn more about corporate sustainability.

Author : Martin P. Thomas
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603586903
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The MultiCapital Scorecard written by Martin P. Thomas and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades now, organizations have been struggling to find the best way to address their social and environmental responsibilities alongside their economic obligations. In other words, they want to know how best to effectively manage their operations based on a triple bottom line (3BL)--one that reflects social, environmental, and economic performance. Recently, an international standard for integrated reporting has emerged that in principle emphasizes the importance of managing toward a triple bottom line. But it fails to provide specific guidance on how to do so. Organizations have been left to their own devices to respond. How should 3BL management actually be done? In this book, sustainability and performance experts Martin Thomas and Mark McElroy introduce the world's most advanced 3BL performance accounting methodology: The MultiCapital Scorecard. It is the first context-based integrated measurement, management, and reporting system. And, it can help corporations, public institutions, and other organizations answer the question they should be asking themselves for every aspect of their operations: "How much is enough for us to be sustainable?" The answers set internal performance standards against which operations and their impacts can be measured. Nothing less will do! The MultiCapital Scorecard describes this open-source methodology, which consists of a structured, quantitative measurement and reporting system that complies with international standards for 3BL integrated measurement and reporting. Moreover, the MultiCapital Scorecard is designed to help organizations assess their own 3BL performance in their own contexts with context-based metrics of their own choosing. An eminently practical management aid for integrated thinking, it can be tailored to any organization's needs. The authors also describe how and why businesses are gradually shifting from managing impacts on only one type of capital (economic) to managing impacts on multiple types. They also provide detailed examples of worked reports, showing how organizations might develop and quantify the interim and long-term goals to meet their obligations to their employees, community, shareholders, and the environment. The examples also show how an organization can use the Multicapital Scorecard methodology to assess their progress in meeting those goals, and convey that progress to their stakeholders.

Author : Kristina Kohl
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1498700837
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Sustainable Organization written by Kristina Kohl and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations find that a performance gap exists between sustainability vision and benefits realization. Effecting transformational change requires incorporating sustainability into organization's culture including policies, processes, and people. Although they are often overlooked, project management professionals and HR professionals are valuable

Author : Rebecca Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198704070
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Sustainable Change written by Rebecca Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling - reducing our global footprint to sustainable levels is the defining issue of our times and it is one that can only be addressed with the active participation of the private sector. However, persuading well-established organizations to act in new ways is never easy. This book is designed to support business leaders and organizational scholars who are grappling with this challenge by pulling together leading edge insights from some of the world's best researchers as to how organizational change in general - and sustainable change in particular - can be most effectively managed. The book begins by laying out the economic case for change, while subsequent chapters describe how leaders at firms such as Du Pont, IBM and Cemex have transformed their organizations, exploring issues such as the role of the senior team and the ways in which firms shift their identities, build innovative cultures and processes, and begin to change the world around them. Business leaders will find the book a source of both powerful examples and immediately actionable ideas, while scholars will be deeply intrigued by the insights that emerge from the cross-cutting exploration of one of the toughest challenges our society has ever faced.

Author : Perez-Uribe, Rafael Ignacio
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799893022
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Organizational Sustainability in Turbulent Economies written by Perez-Uribe, Rafael Ignacio and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational sustainability and uncertain economies are key topics for modern organizations. New, updated knowledge about such matters is necessary for companies to ensure they are sufficiently prepared for future crises. Additional research is required in this area as the overall amount of material available is below par. The Handbook of Research on Organizational Sustainability in Turbulent Economies provides theoretical and practical evidence that demonstrates how the integration, adaptation, construction, and application of strategic models, methods, and tools can promote organizational sustainability for economies in situations of uncertainty. Covering topics such as work engagement and sustainable development goals, this major reference work is ideal for academicians, practitioners, policymakers, entrepreneurs, business owners, researchers, instructors, and students.

Author : Peter A. Soyka
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0132874407
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating a Sustainable Organization written by Peter A. Soyka and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations that prioritize environmental, health, and safety (EHS) issues are well placed to attract better customers, better talent, and today's growing number of socially responsible investors. But, to gain these benefits, companies must choose the right sustainability strategies, and then manage and measure them well. Now, leading business sustainability consultant Peter Soyka offers a complete and actionable guide to driving greater value through sustainability. In Creating a Sustainable Organization, Soyka bridges the disparate worlds of the EHS/sustainability professional and the investor/analyst. Readers will learn what the evidence says about linkages between sustainability and value... how to manage key stakeholder relationships influencing corporate response to EHS and social equity issues... how to effectively manage sustainability throughout the business... how to evaluate sustainability posture and performance from the standpoint of external investors and internal management... how to maximize the influence of organizational actors focused on sustainability, and much more. This book will be invaluable for all environmental, health, and safety decision-makers and professionals concerned with improving sustainability and value; for executives and strategists seeking long-term competitive advantage; for stock analysts evaluating potential investments; and for researchers and MBA candidates currently studying the techniques and potential of corporate sustainability.