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Business Under Crisis: Strategic Organizational Sustainability— A Contextual Transformation

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This study is aimed to analyse the various features and elements related to strategic organizational sustainability. The analysis departs from the assumption that traditional organizations have to face a lot of challenges posed by the new global economy context confronting contradictory patterns of globalization and des-globalization processes. In order to create the new conditions for the organizations not only to survive but to succeed, it proposed a new model based on designing and implementing strategic organizational sustainability, abandoning the narrow focus on economic growth and profits to embrace the social inclusion and equity as well as the environmental sustainability issues.

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Vargas-Hernández, J.G., Orozco Quijano, E.P. (2022). Business Under Crisis: Strategic Organizational Sustainability— A Contextual Transformation. In: Vrontis, D., Thrassou, A., Weber, Y., Shams, S.M.R., Tsoukatos, E., Efthymiou, L. (eds) Business Under Crisis, Volume III. Palgrave Studies in Cross-disciplinary Business Research, In Association with EuroMed Academy of Business. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76583-5_2

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