A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MODEL FOR THE ADOPTION OF SUSTAINABILITY The Strategic Logic for the Adoption of the Model
External context in the long term drives change and the opportunities and challenges facing global corporations. In the days when most corporations primarily focused on their home markets, the scope …
Insights about Global Realities and Possibilities
The global economy includes all of the existing, emerging and potential markets and customers in the world. One ofthe most significant underlying approaches in the drive to be more successful …
UNDERPINNINGS AND GLOBAL REALITIES Prevailing Business Situation
The current economic crisis, the so-called Great Recession, has shed new light on the many difficulties and problems facing business leaders, politicians, government officials and NGO leaders as they try …
A Model for Improving the Adoption of Sustainability in the Context of Globalization and Innovation
David L. Rainey Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA ABSTRACT This chapter presents the foundations of a conceptual model for connecting the key elements necessary for corporations to adopt sustainability in the …
FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTION AND BRIEF CONCLUSION
Theoretical inquiry on environmental rationality is an open ongoing process for the construction of a sustainable future. Most important for this goal will be research on the social appropriation of …
BUILDING ENVIRONMENTAL RATIONALITY FOR SUSTAINABILITY: CREATIVITY IN THINKING, INNOVATIVE KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
Environmental rationality does not only reorient innovation towards sustainability but re-signifies the concept of production. Ideas have always fed the economy and forged innovations as they entered into the productive …
REENCOUNTERING NATURE AND CULTURE: THE ENVIRONMENTAL EPISTEMOLOGICAL CHALLENGE
Environmental rationality opens new perspectives for the social construction of sustainability; it changes gears for the innovation process towards other purposes that depart from the inertial tendencies ofmodernity. Rationality, organized …
SUSTAINABILITY AND INNOVATION: ENVIRONMENTAL RATIONALITY AND REVOLUTION OF KNOWLEDGE
Innovation is the inbuilt mechanism that mobilizes processes within a structured system and drives it towards its prescribed and embodied ends. In economics, innovation occurs as a technological change or …
INNOVATION FOR DEMATERIALIZATION
Undoubtedly, the main driving force that orients innovation processes towards sustainability goals, is the geopolitics of economic globalizaton and sustainable development that has been set-up since the UN World Conference …
SUSTAINABILITY, RATIONALITY AND THE SELF-REFLECTION OF MODERNITY
The transition to sustainability is a social challenge demanding “innovative thinking”. However, tackling innovation for sustainability implies a clarification of concepts. Sustainability has irrupted as an unexpected emergence in our …
INTRODUCTION
Since Antiquity, the cosmic, natural, biological and social order, have been conceived as an ongoing process of “emergence”. Thus, metaphysics thought ontology as the “generativity of physis” DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-165-8.ch001 and …
ABSTRACT
Renovating our thinking as humankind (rethinking nature, culture and development) is an imperative to approach the challenges of environmental crisis and to orient the social construction of a sustainable world. …
Acknowledgment
In the role of Editors (Farley S. Nobre, David S. Walker, and Robert J. Harris), we would like to thank all the participants in this international book. The process of …
ENDNOTES
i Just as capitalism replaced feudalism, Marx and Engels believed socialism would, in its turn, replace capitalism, and lead to a stateless, classless society called pure communism (Baird, 2010). ii …
Book Structure and Chapters Synopsis
The Editors’ goal is to foster cross-pollination among researchers. To this aim, the Editors have selected and assembled chapters that illustrate multidisciplinary theoretical perspectives and empiric results on innovation and …
Target Audience
This book is most relevant to researchers, students and executives interested in future organizations that pursue dynamic innovation and sustainable development. The technological, managerial and organizational background addressed in this …
The Dynamic Model
Figure 1 portrays innovation as interacting with the Organization’s Creative Areas (OCA). In this Figure, the Organization’s Creative Areas [OCA-(1...9)] include Sustainability (Sus.), Organizational Networks (ON), Entrepreneurship (Ent.), Knowledge Management …
Key Concepts of the Book
In this book, innovation involves processes, organizational elements (or resourcesiii), and Organizational Abilities (OA)iv that support the production and transformation of knowledge into new knowledge, processes, structures, technologies and products, …
Objectives: What the Book is About
Chapters in this book address many recent theories and practices on innovation. The book contemplates economic, social, political, educational and environmental facets of innovation through technological, managerial and organizational perspectives. …
Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies: Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development
David Walker The editors have assembled this book around the topic of innovation, which they define very broadly. As a happy result of this broad definition, the book comingles the …
