
Reconstructing Value
Leadership Skills for a Sustainable World
Rotman/UTP Publishing
2nd Edition
Published on 5. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-4426-1153-5 (ISBN)
Description
Reconstructing Value prepares contemporary business leaders for the increasingly important task of developing a sustainability vision and translating it across levels in an organization. The book is based on insights gained over the past decade from research involving hundreds of practitioners, front line managers to senior executives, who have been working to integrate sustainability within their organizations. It illustrates how building capacity for managing the complex issues of sustainability requires key process skills that leaders need to develop.
This book equips readers to respond to the risks and opportunities presented by global sustainability issues and reinvent new ways of doing business that will enhance organizational effectiveness while also building a more sustainable world. Each chapter includes process questions to guide reflective practice and to build the requisite leadership capabilities for turning a sustainability vision into a value-added organizational strategy. Reconstructing Value helps readers to build integrative thinking skills - such as how to engage critical, complexity, strategic and design thinking capabilities to enable organizational change - that can assist them with becoming successful sustainability champions within their organizations.
This book equips readers to respond to the risks and opportunities presented by global sustainability issues and reinvent new ways of doing business that will enhance organizational effectiveness while also building a more sustainable world. Each chapter includes process questions to guide reflective practice and to build the requisite leadership capabilities for turning a sustainability vision into a value-added organizational strategy. Reconstructing Value helps readers to build integrative thinking skills - such as how to engage critical, complexity, strategic and design thinking capabilities to enable organizational change - that can assist them with becoming successful sustainability champions within their organizations.
More details
Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Publishing group
University of Toronto Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
20 figures
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-1153-5 (9781442611535)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Elizabeth C. Kurucz is an assistant professor of Organizational Behaviour and Sustainable Commerce in the Department of Business, College of Management and Economics at the University of Guelph.
Barry A. Colbert is an associate professor of Policy and Strategic Management in the School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University.
David C. Wheeler is Executive Dean of Business and Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Plymouth.
Barry A. Colbert is an associate professor of Policy and Strategic Management in the School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University.
David C. Wheeler is Executive Dean of Business and Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Plymouth.
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Rethinking
Chapter 2: Envisioning a New Way of Doing Business: Thinking Skills for Sustainable Organizations
Chapter 3: Transforming Organizations and Society: Learning our Way Forward
Part II: Relating
Chapter 4: Complex Global Issues as the Context for Value Creation
Chapter 5: Managing for Stakeholders in a Complex World
Part III: Responding
Chapter 6: Sustainability Conversations
Chapter 7: Wicked Problems and Complex Processes: The Social Dynamics of Sustainability
Chapter 8: From Stakeholder Management to Social Integration: Building Collaboratively Competitive Organizations
Part IV: Reinventing
Chapter 9: Reconstructing Value: Leadership in Reinventing Notions of Success
Part I: Rethinking
Chapter 2: Envisioning a New Way of Doing Business: Thinking Skills for Sustainable Organizations
Chapter 3: Transforming Organizations and Society: Learning our Way Forward
Part II: Relating
Chapter 4: Complex Global Issues as the Context for Value Creation
Chapter 5: Managing for Stakeholders in a Complex World
Part III: Responding
Chapter 6: Sustainability Conversations
Chapter 7: Wicked Problems and Complex Processes: The Social Dynamics of Sustainability
Chapter 8: From Stakeholder Management to Social Integration: Building Collaboratively Competitive Organizations
Part IV: Reinventing
Chapter 9: Reconstructing Value: Leadership in Reinventing Notions of Success