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Toward Sustainable Organisations

A Holistic Perspective on Implementation Efforts

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Authors:
  1. Rodrigo Lozano

    1. Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden

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  • Analyses organisations' efforts to become more sustainability-oriented
  • Looks at cases across civil society, the public sector, and corporations
  • Utilizes a Tools, Initiatives, and Approaches framework

Part of the book series: Strategies for Sustainability (STSU)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Rodrigo Lozano
    Pages 1-3

  3. Sustainable Development and Sustainability

    • Rodrigo Lozano
    Pages 5-17

  4. Organisations and Their Contribution to Sustainability

    • Rodrigo Lozano
    Pages 19-38

  5. Tools, Initiatives, and Approaches Used for Implementing Sustainability

    • Rodrigo Lozano
    Pages 39-74

  6. Organisational Change Management for Sustainability

    • Rodrigo Lozano
    Pages 75-88

  7. Civil Society Organisations’ Contributions to Sustainability

    • Rodrigo Lozano
    Pages 89-102

  8. Corporations’ Contributions to Sustainability

    • Rodrigo Lozano
    Pages 103-114

  9. Public Sector Organisations’ Contributions to Sustainability

    • Rodrigo Lozano
    Pages 115-126

  10. Towards More Sustainable Organisations: Discussions and Conclusions

    • Rodrigo Lozano
    Pages 127-139

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 141-144
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About this book

The book is one of the first ones focussing on how organisations (civil society, corporations, and public sector ones) are contributing to sustainability. The book starts by providing a discussion of the four dimensions of sustainability (economic, environmental, social, and time). The second chapter focusses on what organisations are, their system elements (e.g. operations and production, management and strategy, and governance), stakeholders, relationships within and between organisations (ranging from competition to collaboration), and a framework for organisations to understand and map how they can contribute to sustainability. The third chapter discusses the twenty-four main tools, initiatives, and approaches (TIAs) that have been developed for organisations to contribute to sustainability, such as Circular Economy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Management Systems, and Sustainability Reporting. The fourth chapter focusses on organisational change management for sustainability, including types of change, drivers for change, resistance to change, incorporation, and institutionalisation. The fifth chapter presents empirical evidence on what civil society organisations have contributed to sustainability, from priorities and impacts, TIAs, external stimuli, and internal factors, drivers for change, starts of change, and development of change. The sixth chapter presents empirical evidence on what corporations have contributed to sustainability, from priorities and impacts, TIAs, external stimuli, and internal factors, drivers for change, starts of change, and development of change. The seventh chapter presents empirical evidence on what public sector organisations have contributed to sustainability, from priorities and impacts, TIAs, external stimuli, and internal factors, drivers for change, starts of change, and development of change. The last chapter provides the conclusions of the book.

The book is aimed at providing a multi-level, dynamic, and holistic perspective on the contributions of organisations to sustainability. The book's uniqueness lies in analysing organisations’ efforts to become more sustainability oriented and contribute to making societies more sustainable through systems thinking, TIAs, and change processes.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden

    Rodrigo Lozano

About the author

Rodrigo Lozano is a Professor of Organisational Sustainability at the University of Gävle, Sweden. He is a field leader in this area and has been working towards Sustainability in NGO's, universities, and corporations for over twenty years. Prof. Lozano is a Series Editor of Springer's Strategies for Sustainability book series.

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