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Transformation Towards Sustainability

A Novel Interdisciplinary Framework from RWTH Aachen University

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Editors:
  1. Peter Letmathe

    1. Lehrstuhl für Controlling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  2. Christine Roll

    1. Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  3. Almut Balleer

    1. Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  4. Stefan Böschen

    1. Lehrstuhl für Technik und Gesellschaft, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  5. Wolfgang Breuer

    1. Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre - Betriebl. Finanzwirtschaft, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  6. Agnes Förster

    1. Lehrstuhl für Planungstheorie und Stadtentwicklung, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  7. Gabriele Gramelsberger

    1. Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftstheorie und Technikphilosophie, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  8. Kathrin Greiff

    1. Institut für Anthropogene Stoffkreisläufe, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  9. Roger Häußling

    1. Lehrstuhl für Soziologie - Technik- und Organisationssoziologie, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  10. Max Lemme

    1. Lehrstuhl für Elektronische Bauelemente, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  11. Michael Leuchner

    1. LFG Physische Geographie und Klimatologie, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  12. Maren Paegert

    1. Lehrstuhl für Controlling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  13. Frank T. Piller

    1. Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  14. Elke Seefried

    1. Leh. für Ges. der Neuzeit (19.-21. Jh.), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  15. Thorsten Wahlbrink

    1. Aachen, Germany

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  • Presents a novel framework on transformation research and practice
  • Includes highly inter- and transdisciplinary approaches from many disciplines
  • Focuses on aspects of transformation research, transformational research and research transformation
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The global environmental crisis, technological developments, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing economic and political globalization are just a few of the developments that are massively increasing the pressure for transformation on regions, companies and society as a whole. In addition, the digital age is accelerating transformation processes that are already underway. This contributed book addresses these developments and presents a new framework for transformation research and practice that has been developed and already validated by researchers of the RWTH Aachen University. The RWTH way includes inter- and transdisciplinary approaches from many disciplines, looking at technological and societal change from different perspectives. A distinction is made between analysis, i.e., research on transformation processes, impact, i.e., transformational research, and change in research itself, i.e. research transformation. The book not only creates a new understanding of transformation research, but also provides actionable impulses for scholars and practitioners in many fields.

 

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Research Transformation

    1. Toward Antifragile Manufacturing: Concepts from Nature and Complex Human-Made Systems to Gain from Stressors and Volatility

      • Marco Becker, Dawid Kasprowicz, Tetiana Kurkina, Mehdi D. Davari, Marius Gipperich, Gabriele Gramelsberger et al.
      Pages 425-448Open Access
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    2. Humboldtn and the Sustainable Transformation of Universities

      • Johanna Höhl, Annalena Tomazin, Kathrin Greiff
      Pages 449-471Open Access
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Lehrstuhl für Controlling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Peter Letmathe, Maren Paegert

  • Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Christine Roll

  • Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Almut Balleer

  • Lehrstuhl für Technik und Gesellschaft, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Stefan Böschen

  • Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre - Betriebl. Finanzwirtschaft, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Wolfgang Breuer

  • Lehrstuhl für Planungstheorie und Stadtentwicklung, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Agnes Förster

  • Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftstheorie und Technikphilosophie, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Gabriele Gramelsberger

  • Institut für Anthropogene Stoffkreisläufe, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Kathrin Greiff

  • Lehrstuhl für Soziologie - Technik- und Organisationssoziologie, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Roger Häußling

  • Lehrstuhl für Elektronische Bauelemente, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Max Lemme

  • LFG Physische Geographie und Klimatologie, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Michael Leuchner

  • Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Frank T. Piller

  • Leh. für Ges. der Neuzeit (19.-21. Jh.), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Elke Seefried

  • Aachen, Germany

    Thorsten Wahlbrink

About the editors

Peter Letmathe works in the fields of sustainability accounting, innovation and value chain controlling, societal transformation processes and business modeling. He studied business administration at University of Bielefeld where he graduated as Diplom-Kaufmann. He received his PhD (Environmental Cost Accounting) from University GH Essen and completed his postdoctoral stage with his habilitation on “Flexible Standardization” at Ruhr-University Bochum. Between 1993 and 2001, he worked under supervision of Prof. Dr. Marion Steven at both universities – Essen and Bochum – as research assistant in the fields of management accounting, operations management, and corporate environmental management. After completing his habilitation, he was appointed Professor of Environmental and Technology Management at University of Bayreuth. Between 2002 and 2011 he held the chair of Value Chain Management with special focus on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises at University of Siegen where he founded theSMI (Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Institute Siegen) in 2003, which he headed until September 2011. Since October 2011 he leads the Chair of Management Accounting (Lehrstuhl für Controlling) at RWTH Aachen University and was dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics from 2018 - 2021. Since 1999, he has held multiple visiting professorship at University of Colorado at Boulder and Clemson University. His practical experience includes more than two years of work in the furniture industry as well as more than 80 often interdisciplinary research projects with industry and other research institutions mainly in the fields of operations management, strategic management, management accounting, and process optimization. His interdisciplinary research comprises the mobility sector, the energy transformation, the digitization of industry and information and communication technologies. Peter Letmathe has published his research in several top journals such as the Journal of Operations Management, the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), OR Spectrum, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Contemporary Accounting Research, OMEGA, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Transportations Research: Part D, Business Strategy and the Environment, and the International Journal of Operations and Production Management.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Transformation Towards Sustainability

  • Book Subtitle: A Novel Interdisciplinary Framework from RWTH Aachen University

  • Editors: Peter Letmathe, Christine Roll, Almut Balleer, Stefan Böschen, Wolfgang Breuer, Agnes Förster, Gabriele Gramelsberger, Kathrin Greiff, Roger Häußling, Max Lemme, Michael Leuchner, Maren Paegert, Frank T. Piller, Elke Seefried, … Thorsten Wahlbrink

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54700-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54699-0Published: 14 May 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54702-7Due: 29 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54700-3Published: 13 May 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 471

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 65 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Research Skills, Research Methods in Education, Education, general

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