Guest editorial

Abstract

Sustainable organizational developmentAt the 2015 UN General Assembly, all member states ratified Resolution 70/1: "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development." The resolution outlines 17 goals for global sustainable development and 169 associated targets. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) replaced the Millennium Development Goals ratified in 2000. The SDGs constitute a comprehensive framework in the form of a number of concrete goals with the purpose of guiding the entire world toward a more sustainable future by 2030. These ambitious goals reflect the collective sense of urgency shared by an increasing proportion of the world's population. The goals should be perceived as an attempt to illustrate the major transformations our society must undergo in the coming years and decades to overcome massive challenges. As the former President of the UN General Assembly, Mogens Lykketoft, writes:The SDGs are not just a recipe for a 'good' future. They are a message to us all, that we cannot reach the goals by walking along the same paths that we have treaded the previous 15or for that matter, the previous 70 years [1] (Lykketoft, 2016, p. 9).