2020/02/28 by David Wasieleski, David M. Wasieleski, Sandra Waddock +4 · 53 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Decision Sciences · Engineering · Social Sciences · #Business #Complex Systems and Decision Making #Economic growth #Economics #Engineering #Engineering ethics #Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems #Management and Organizational Studies #Management science #Multidisciplinary approach #Natural (archaeology) #Political science #Scholarship #Social science #Sociology #Sustainability #Sustainability organizations #Sustainability science
paper · pdf · doi:10.1177/0007650319898384
published in Business & Society 60(1), 7-25 (SAGE Publishing)
openalex publication_date 2020/02/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/27
It is becoming clear that many of today’s management theories are inadequate theoretically and practically to move understanding, scholarship, and practice to where it needs to be for scholars, business leaders, and policy makers to cope with an increasing fraught world. This Special Issue’s focus is on sustainability. Sustainability challenges need to incorporate multidisciplinary interventions and the trans- and interdisciplinary nature of solutions. To actively seek transformation toward sustainability, fundamental and innovative short-term as well as long-term efforts are required in society, economy, technology, and education, including our understanding of human behavior and attitudes toward the management of the environment. This introductory piece presents natural science theories as a promising approach for achieving progress toward transformation for sustainability.