Rethinking Strategic Management: Sustainable Strategizing for Positive Impact (CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance)

This book offers innovative ideas and frameworks for sustainable strategizing to advance business by scaling-up its positive impact, which is so urgently needed at this time in the 21st century. It shows practitioners how to effectively deal with socio-ecological systems’ disruptions to their operating environments and play an active role in transforming markets toward a sustainable future. In short, the book demonstrates how to make business sense of sustainability, highlighting new approaches and examples that translate sustainability into strategy and action. The ultimate goal is to provide a path toward a thriving future for both business and society. This book was written for strategy practitioners and decision makers who want to understand why sustainable strategizing is important in today’s business world and are seeking actionable business knowledge they can apply in their companies. It was also written for students of management and can be used as a supplemental text to support traditional graduate and undergraduate management courses. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi Mindsets for Linking Strategy and Sustainability: Planetary Boundaries, Social Foundations, and Sustainable Strategizing (Thomas Wunder)....Pages 1-40 Front Matter ....Pages 41-41 Please Welcome CSR 2.0 (Henry Mintzberg)....Pages 43-46 Managing the Next Industrial Revolution Successfully: Sustainability (Alexander Meyer zum Felde)....Pages 47-66 Why Porter Is Not Enough: Economic Foundations of Sustainable Strategic Management (Jean Garner Stead, W. Edward Stead)....Pages 67-85 Sustainable Strategizing: Extending Competitive Advantages to Viability Advantage (Timo Santalainen)....Pages 87-104 Integrated Management for Capital Markets and Strategy: The Challenges of “Value” Versus “Values” Sustainability Investment, Smart Beta, and Their Consequences for Corporate Leadership (Andrew Mountfield, Matthew Gardner, Bernd Kasemir, Stephan Lienin)....Pages 105-128 Front Matter ....Pages 129-129 Sustainable Business Models: Rethinking Value and Impact (Krzysztof Dembek, Jodi York)....Pages 131-148 Strategy Design for Flourishing: A Robust Method (Antony Upward, Stephen N. Davies)....Pages 149-175 Designing More Sustainable Business Models, Services, and Products: How Design Foresight Outcomes Can Guide Organizational Sustainability of SME Manufacturers (Alexandre Joyce)....Pages 177-198 The Inequality-Aware Organization (Suhaib Riaz)....Pages 199-214 Front Matter ....Pages 215-215 Values-Based Stakeholder Management: Concepts and Methods (Henning Breuer, Florian Lüdeke-Freund)....Pages 217-239 What Corporate Strategists Can Learn from International Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration: A Conceptual Architecture for Transformative Change (Petra Kuenkel)....Pages 241-266 Applying Materiality Assessment in Strategic Management: The Implicit Coating of the Materiality Lens (Stefanie Remmer, Dirk Ulrich Gilbert)....Pages 267-291 Front Matter ....Pages 293-293 Siemens Intrapreneurs Bootcamp: Purpose-Driven Innovation to Unleash People’s Potential for Impact-Based Business (Laura Engelhardt, Steffen Mayer, Christoph Krois, Bettina Maisch)....Pages 295-312 Creating a Climate Fit for Life at Interface: From Restorative to Regenerative, a Strategic Approach to Cross-Sectoral Co-Innovation (Geanne van Arkel)....Pages 313-328 How Sustainability and a Culture of Trust Shape Entrepreneurial Success at VAUDE (Lisa Fiedler, Felix Bongen, Anna Elleke)....Pages 329-342 Front Matter ....Pages 343-343 Sustainability and Technology Acceleration—How to Surf the Killer Waves: A Systems Thinking Approach to Become Fit for the Future (Rüdiger A. Röhrig, Edwin J. M. Janssen)....Pages 345-375 Why Every CEO Needs to Be Future Smart: From AI to Sustainability (James Canton)....Pages 377-394 Front Matter ....Pages 395-395 Epilogue (Thomas Wunder)....Pages 397-410