Sustaining Sustainability in Organizations

Lange, Deborah E. de; Busch, Timo; Delgado-Ceballos, Javier

doi:10.1007/s10551-012-1425-0

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“…While it may not reconcile the irreconcilable (Poff 1994), it is a viable, practical way toward sustaining sustainability in organizational strategy and research (de Lange et al 2012).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within these different forms, the actual role of sustainable practices changes radically. In the former, sustainability is subordinated to an instrumental role, ultimately serving the purpose of profitability and growth, which is itself unsustainable (de Lange et al 2012;Gao and Bansal 2013;Hahn and Figge 2011). In the latter, sustainability is the end of interest.…”

Section: Two Sustainabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…I maintain that these perspectives all offer much-needed insight into the problem of sustaining sustainability in business (de Lange et al 2012) and my purpose here is in no sense to refute them. On the contrary, the goal of this paper is to integrate these divergent perspectives into a logic that is clear, actionable, and consistent with the goals of sustainable work.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In order to make these useful insights more accessible to managers, a unifying logic is needed that can be deployed in the face of the default market logic that has plagued sustainability decisions. It needs to be actionable (de Lange et al 2012) and it "should be explicit on the ultimate goal it refers to" (Hahn and Figge 2011, p. 327). This is my goal here.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Balancing Act: Towards a Terminal Logic of Sustainability.

Rose

2017

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Building on recent work seeking to redress the shortcomings of contemporary sustainability practices, two versions of sustainability are explored. The first, built on the logic of the market with its emphasis on growth, is found to use sustainability as a means to an end; an end which is not sustainable: growth. The second version, built on the logic of equilibrium developed by Georges Bataille (1967Bataille ( /2007, treats sustainability as the end itself and is thus sustainable by definition. The logics underlying and the mechanics of these forms of sustainability are explored. The ability of the Bataille logic to incorporate existing findings and offer a parsimonious goal on which to build strategies is discussed in light of specific connections to recent research. An empirical case is provided to illuminate the existence of the sustainability logic in contemporary business practice. Practical and theoretical implications are provided. Keywords: sustainability, marketing, strategy, structure Resumo: Com base em trabalhos recentes que buscam corrigir as deficiências das práticas de sustentabilidade contemporâneas, são exploradas duas versões de sustentabilidade. O primeiro, construído sobre a lógica do mercado com sua ênfase no crescimento, utiliza a sustentabilidade como um meio para um fim; um fim que não é sustentável: o crescimento. A segunda versão, construída sobre a lógica de equilíbrio desenvolvida por Georges Bataille (1967Bataille ( /2007, trata a sustentabilidade como o próprio fim e, portanto, é sustentável por definição. As lógicas subjacentes e a mecânica destas formas de sustentabilidade são exploradas. A capacidade da lógica Bataille de incorporar os achados existentes e oferecer um objetivo parcimonioso sobre o qual construir estratégias é discutida à luz de conexões específicas para pesquisa recente. Um caso empírico é fornecido para iluminar a existência da lógica de sustentabilidade na prática comercial contemporânea. São fornecidas implicações práticas e teóricas.

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“…While it may not reconcile the irreconcilable (Poff 1994), it is a viable, practical way toward sustaining sustainability in organizational strategy and research (de Lange et al 2012).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Two Sustainabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Balancing Act: Towards a Terminal Logic of Sustainability.

Rose

2017

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“…Throughout this millennium, environmental sustainability has become a significant contemporary interest, a prevalent issue debated by the policy-makers, public opinion and practicing managers [1][2][3][4]. Thus, the environmental management has become an important field of management research and body of knowledge [5][6][7].…”

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Greening of Malaysian School Human Resource Management by Green Intellectual Capital and Healthy Organization

2018

Adv. in Nat. Appl. Sci.

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The nexus of business sustainability and organizational learning: A systematic literature review to identify key learning principles for business transformation

Hermelingmeier

Wirth

2021

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Companies play a central role in the quest for sustainable development. Organizational learning theories have been utilized to explain sustainability-related change processes in firms. However, implications from studies at the nexus of business sustainability and organizational learning are highly dependent on varying conceptualizations. The objective of this study is to provide clarity on the plurality of conceptual underpinnings in research and to uncover principles that are associated with deeper organizational change processes, that is, business transformation.Building on insights from a systematic literature review, we develop a sustainability learning typology, from which we distill three learning principles for business transformation: (1) the deutero learning mode, (2) the societal learning scope, and (3) the cooperative advantage objective. We formulate needs for future research to further elaborate on the learning principles associated with business transformation and suggest implications for practice.

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Sustaining Sustainability in Organizations

Cited by 96 publications

References 34 publications

The Balancing Act: Towards a Terminal Logic of Sustainability.

The Balancing Act: Towards a Terminal Logic of Sustainability.

Greening of Malaysian School Human Resource Management by Green Intellectual Capital and Healthy Organization

The nexus of business sustainability and organizational learning: A systematic literature review to identify key learning principles for business transformation

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