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Performance Management and Enterprise Excellence Through Sustainable Business Models

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Humanity faces wicked challenges on the right, left, before, behind, above, and beneath. Many of these are of our own making; enterprises have contributed to their creation—and must contribute to their resolution. Edgeman takes a systemic approach to sustainable business modeling that integrates diverse elements usually considered in isolation. The resulting model integrates guiding principles used in leading enterprise excellence models with the 10 principles of the United Nations Global Compact, delivering a model for sustainable enterprise excellence, resilience, and robustness capable of attacking relevant wicked challenges such as ones embraced by the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

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  1. Department of Management, Robbins College of Business & Entrepreneurship, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS, USA

    Rick Edgeman

  2. Department of Business & Technology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Rick Edgeman

  3. Department of Technology & Innovation, Faculty of Engineering, Southern Denmark University, Odense, Denmark

    Rick Edgeman

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Edgeman, R. (2019). Performance Management and Enterprise Excellence Through Sustainable Business Models. In: Aagaard, A. (eds) Sustainable Business Models. Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business In Association with Future Earth. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93275-0_11

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