Strategic Management for Sustainability: Imperatives and Paradoxes
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 64205
Special Issue Editors
Interests: corporate social responsibility; sustainability strategy; sustainability and performance; sustainability mindsets; sustainability paradoxes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Despite the increasing attention sustainability issues have been receiving in all sectors, key indicators suggests an alarmingly insufficient lack of progress. A climate-change crisis is even nearer than we thought. A “sixth extinction” is underway, with a million species on the verge of being lost forever. Significant losses of arable land endanger humanity’s ability to feed a growing world population. Our oceans are deeply threatened. Inequality is growing. Violence and human migration abound. Furthermore, a large portion of the business community seems disinterested—only a small percent of businesses worldwide currently participate in the UN Global Compact or the Global Reporting Initiative.
Perhaps the scholarly community can best contribute to reversing these alarming trends, by inspiring deeper thinking about what strategically managing for sustainability means. Perhaps we can help to generate novel, more powerful, strategic management models, processes, and practices capable of resolving the many sustainability dilemmas that will continue to challenge policy makers and business leaders into the foreseeable future, and for which traditional strategic management approaches seem inadequate.
We invite papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- The deeper meaning of responsible strategic management;
- Causes and potential resolution of sustainability paradoxes;
- Challenges and pathways to changing strategic management paradigms;
- Comparative analysis of regional perspectives on strategic sustainability management;
- Level of analysis issues in strategic sustainability management (e.g., firm, societal, and planetary);
- Inter-organizational partnerships and networks for strategic sustainability management;
- Leadership challenges for strategic sustainability management;
- New strategic management processes and tools for sustainability;
- Strategies for climate-crisis management;
- Giving voice to unseen and voiceless stakeholders.
Prof. Joel Harmon
Dr. Gerard Farias
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability strategy
- responsible strategic management
- strategy paradigm shifts
- sustainability leadership
- climate-crisis management
- silent stakeholders
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