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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787307203321

Titolo

The necessary transition : the journey towards the sustainable enterprise economy / / edited by Malcolm McIntosh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England : , : Greenleaf Publishing, , 2013

2013

ISBN

1-351-27651-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

338.927

Soggetti

Sustainable development

Social responsibility of business

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Contested futures; 2 Radical openness and contextualisation; 3 The devil is in the synergy; 4 Transformations and translations of Japanese business-society; 5 Occupation or action; 6 The pillars of peace; 7 The wicked problem of developing a new social contract for the necessary transition; 8 Together: the power of collaboration; 9 Boundary objects, HRM tools and change for sustainability; 10 Climate change is everyone's business; 11 Industry transformation through sustainable entrepreneurship

12 Public Policy processes for transition to a sustainable enterprise society13 Sustainable development; 14 Currencies of transition; Index; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing together the expertise of leading international researchers and practitioners, this radical book questions whether transition to a sustainable future is possible within the logic of conventional capitalism and 20th-century models of development and how we can plan for the future.