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

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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.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09CWJQH6S
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 30, 2021
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2.3 MB
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 166 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0429663918
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Part of series ‏ : ‎ Key Ideas in Business and Management
Best Sellers Rank: #4,536,132 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #624 in Green Business (Books) #797 in Green Business (Kindle Store) #1,096 in Sustainable Development Economics
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