CHAPTER 2

On Designing and Developing Sustainable Organizations

Divya Bhutiani, Padmakumar Nair, Aard Groen, and Gregory Dess

Introduction: A Framework for Creating Sustainable Organizations

Recently, management educators and practitioners have been faced with the challenge of finding new approaches and frameworks to develop skills and attitudes for designing organizations and business strategies that promote economic development without sacrificing future generation’s ability to meet their needs. This corporate sustainability agenda has generated genuine interest in new organizational forms such as hybrid and social entrepreneurial enterprises. In this chapter, we explore practical, theoretical, and philosophical challenges of designing sustainable ...

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