Sustainability:A Key Idea for Business and Society

Author: Suzanne Benn
Brand: Routledge
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 164
Release Date: 09-01-2025
EAN: 9781041044659
Languages: English

Details:
The heightening impact of ecological and societal crises makes sustainability an increasingly urgent imperative, requiring a fundamental shift in how we understand and practice management and business. In this book, the author sets out the key characteristics of sustainability such as its temporal and multilevel effects and highlights the complex array of sustainability risks and opportunities for business and management. Setting business within a systems perspective, the author outlines different sustainability discourses that frame how business responds to the sustainability imperative. The book calls for the merging of normative and scientific approaches to sustainability, proposing a new transdisciplinary approach that brings together the material and relational traditions in sustainability management. Sustainability work is understood as the reframing of tools, technologies, practices, and business strategies to respond to the imperative. The book concludes by highlighting dynamic features of the imperative as it is shaped by the urgent need to restore and regenerate social and ecological systems. Sustainability transitions such as the Circular Economy and Net Zero are suggested as inspiration for profound business transformation.