Toward Sustainable Organisations

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Rodrigo Lozano

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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

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9. Public Sector Organisations’ Contributions to Sustainability

   • Rodrigo Lozano

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10. Towards More Sustainable Organisations: Discussions and Conclusions

    • Rodrigo Lozano

    Pages 127-139

11. Back Matter

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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.

• Sustainability
• Organizations
• Stakeholders
• Change management
• Tools, initiatives, and approaches
• Civil society organisations
• Public sector organisations
• Corporate sustainability
• Systems thinking

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

  Rodrigo Lozano

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.