Interconnecting the concepts of sustainability innovation and transformation this book explains how organizations have successfully transformed themselves and wider society to foster a more sustainable future and identifies the difficulties and challenges along the way. Part of the Principle of Responsible Management Education (PRME) series the book promotes a strong voice for meeting sustainability challenges for transformative change in a globalized world through business education and practice. A transition to a more sustainable way of doing business can only be attained by combining technology with profound system innovations and lifestyle changes. The chapters in the book each written by a strong and well-recognized team of researchers in the field open up the discussion about a new partnership between sustainability innovation and transformation that includes the global society (big world) the biosphere (small planet) and also requires a deep mind shift. The book presents cases from business (including Ikea and Eataly) and other service networks including the Base of the Pyramid (Bo P) and illustrates how these organizations have transformed themselves for a sustainable future. The research perspectives are macro (policies and legislation) meso (institutional practices) and micro (business practices and individual behavior). This book is where research meets real-world business and societal practice. The chapters are grounded in business research specifically the interdependencies between sustainability innovation and transformation which makes for a robust basis for describing explaining and understanding the complex challenges faced by business and society in the 21st century. The book is intended for graduate- and postgraduate-level students and executive education with implications for practitioners. Furthermore it contributes to multidisciplinary research in the field of interaction between business and society with a view to extending the firm-centric view to encompass a broader systemic and dynamic understanding of business and societal transformation. |Business Transformation for a Sustainable Future | Business
