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Art and Sustainability Transitions in Business and Society

Theoretical Insights and Engagement

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Editors:
  1. Hanna Lehtimäki

    1. Business School, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

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  2. Steven S. Taylor

    1. Worcester Polytechnic Institute Business School, Worcester, USA

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  3. Mariana Galvão Lyra

    1. Business School, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland

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  • Explores the potential of art-based methods as a tool for enticing behavioral change
  • Includes theoretical and practical perspectives and real world case studies
  • Provides innovating practices and routines for organizations

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities (PSBAH)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Art in Sustainability Transitions

    • Hanna Lehtimäki, Mariana Galvão Lyra, Steven S. Taylor
    Pages 1-9

  3. Artistic Data: Rise of Data-Driven Call to Action in Climate Change and Sustainable Futures

    • Indira Venkatraman, Ralph Adler
    Pages 11-29

  4. Art in Fostering Our Capacity to Re-Imagine the Sustainable Future

    • Hanna Lehtimäki, Siiri Piironen, Mark Isaac
    Pages 31-53

  5. The Arts Mobilizing Communities: From Socially Engaged Arts to Social Artrepreneurship

    • Victor Renza, Kirsti Reitan Andersen, Christian Fieseler, Fiona McDermott, Róisin McGannon
    Pages 55-78

  6. Games, Business, and Gamers: How to Facilitate a Game Accessibility Transition across the Gaming Ecosystem?

    • Lobna Hassan, Pekka Buttler, Mikko Vesa
    Pages 79-108

  7. Art as Orchestrated Serendipity. Leaving Behind Outcome Prediction in Arts-Based Methods to Foster Sustainability in Organizations

    • Thomas Blonski
    Pages 109-127

  8. Towards Developing Responsible Managers: Using Art for Social Change

    • Padhmanabhan Vijayaraghavan, Divya Singhal
    Pages 129-146

  9. RawTag: Art and Education for Sustainability

    • Hassiba Fadli, Beatriz Acevedo, Romas Malevicius, Carmen Lamberti
    Pages 147-176

  10. The Entrepreneurial Fashion Designer as an Agent of Sustainable Innovation: A Namibian Case Study

    • Chakirra Claasen, Cyrlene Claasen, Melanie Sarantou
    Pages 177-206

  11. The Journey of a “Freak”: The Role of Frivolous Archetypes in Sustainable Leadership Practices

    • Rita Tóth, Sándor Takács
    Pages 207-239

  12. Can the Arts Be Used to Change the Fundamentally Unsustainable, Socio-Economic Structures that Dominate the Modern World?

    • Steven S. Taylor, Mariana Galvão Lyra, Hanna Lehtimäki
    Pages 241-245

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 247-250
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About this book

An increased understanding of art and art-based-methods is needed to address the behavioral and cultural change in the sustainability transition. This edited collection explores ways to engage people in their citizen, consumer, employer, employee and entrepreneurial roles, as they grapple with the sustainability transition. It introduces art and arts-based methods to advance sustainability thinking. As a unique contribution to sustainability research, this book presents insights from artists, art organizations and specialists using arts-based-methods in education, organizational innovation and citizen engagement. The book will provide inspiring insights to scholars and students of sustainability, innovation, corporate strategy, and creativity in business.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Business School, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

    Hanna Lehtimäki

  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute Business School, Worcester, USA

    Steven S. Taylor

  • Business School, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Mariana Galvão Lyra

About the editors

Hanna Lehtimäki is a Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Eastern Finland Business School. Her research examines sustainable innovation and renewal with theoretical frameworks on strategic management, stakeholder theory, leadership and networks. Her current research focuses on transition to sustainable circular economy. Her articles have appeared in academic journals internationally and she has authored and co-authored books on strategic management and leadership.


Steven S. Taylor is Professor of Leadership and Creativity at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Business School, USA. His research is focused in two areas, organizational aesthetics and reflective practice. The former applies art-based scholarship and practice to management and organizations. The latter focuses on the ability to analyse our own actions and learn how to be more effective, ethical, and artful as managers and leaders.


 


Mariana Galvão Lyra is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated to the LUT Business School, Finland. She works as a project manager and does research on public acceptance of emerging technologies for energy transitions at the Greenrenew platform. Prior to LUT University, Mariana has been involved in initiatives and research projects on the interlinks of natural resources, environment, and society at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), from where she got her PhD on environmental policy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Art and Sustainability Transitions in Business and Society

  • Book Subtitle: Theoretical Insights and Engagement

  • Editors: Hanna Lehtimäki, Steven S. Taylor, Mariana Galvão Lyra

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44219-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44218-6Published: 28 February 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44221-6Due: 30 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44219-3Published: 27 February 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2662-1266

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-1274

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 250

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Business and Management, general, Corporate Environmental Management, Business Strategy/Leadership

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