Overview
- Provides a comprehensive and compelling review of main leadership aspects of sustainability
- Introduces the notion of sustainability impact in relation to mindsets and systems thinking
- Presents an integrated model combining leadership theory, management practice ,and innovative solutions
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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​This book explores the historical, foundational, and applied elements of sustainability theory and practice as relevant to the leadership, management, and innovation of organizations, companies and enterprises. It provides analytical and critical reviews of the current evolution of sustainability for people, planet, prosperity, innovation and impact.
Divided into four parts, the work offers an integrated model of development for creating and delivering sustainability values at the personal, organizational, societal and environmental levels. The different sections examine sustainability leadership (focusing on of ethics, values, and purpose), sustainability management (focusing on organizational effectiveness and stakeholders’ wellbeing), sustainability innovation (focusing on social and environmental entrepreneurship), and sustainability impact (focusing on resilience, interconnectedness, consciousness, systemic thinking, and cosmic empathy for the common goodand common future).Combining theoretical and practical applications that give the reader a deeper, scientific, and critical understanding of the urgent, complex, and necessary values for a sustainable future for all, this comprehensive text is a must-read for researchers and students alike, providing a framework for effective globally responsible leadership.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sustainability Leadership
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Sustainability Innovation
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Sustainability Impact
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Marco Tavanti is Professor of Leadership in the School of Management at University of San Francisco, USA. He has contributed to the establishment of the United Nations Global Compact and its Principles of Responsible Management Education (UN-PRME). As President of the Sustainable Capacity International Institute and Co-Founder of the World Engagement Institute, he links teaching with professional development for sustainable human security in post conflict and challenging contexts. He has published more than 100 studies in the area of sustainability, value leadership and cross-cultural aspects of responsible management education. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management for Global Sustainability (JMGS) and has recently published a book with Dr. Alfredo Sfeir-Younis on Conscious Sustainability Leadership: A New Paradigm for Next Generation Leaders.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developing Sustainability in Organizations
Book Subtitle: A Values-Based Approach
Authors: Marco Tavanti
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36907-0
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 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36906-3Published: 02 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36909-4Published: 03 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36907-0Published: 01 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 510
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Management, Business Ethics, Organization