Sustainable Management

In the second edition of this book, the concept of resource-based sustainability has once again been expanded to include further references to modern management theories. The author shows that overcoming the dilemmas that sustainability creates for companies and all organizations leads to more complex decisions that also require higher levels of awareness. The concept of sustainable leadership is closely related to the resource approach. Finally, readers will learn how to tell a compelling transformation narrative toward sustainability.

Guides the reader step by step to a resource-oriented understanding of sustainable management. Includes learning targets at the beginning and suggestions for further reflection at the end of each chapter. Provides coping strategies for dilemmas in resource-oriented management.

Autorentext

Prof. Dr rer. pol. Georg Müller-Christ, born in 1963, holds the Chair of Sustainable Management at the University of Bremen, Department of Economics. In his scientific works he pursues a research concept as to whether the requirements of a sustainable development can be connected to entrepreneurial decision routines. From 2008 until 2011 he served the University of Bremen as a Vice-rector for study affairs. Since 2009 he is a member of the working group for Sustainability in Higher Education Institutions, working on the integration of the UN-Sustainable Development Goals into research and teaching of universities. Since 2014 Georg Müller-Christ is introducing the system constellation method into science.

Inhalt
Introduction.- The Essence for Quick Readers.- Understanding Sustainability: Sustainability and Society.- Quo Vadis, Environmental Management?.- Quo Vadis, Social Responsibility?.- Sustainability as Economic Rationality.- Theoretical Impulses: A Theory of Management Ecology.- Dominant Management Rationalities and the Necessary Improvements for a More Sustainable Management.- Coping with Contradictions as Core Problem of Modern and Sustainability-Oriented Management Studies.- Sustainable Resource Management: The Use of the Term "Resource" in Management Studies.- Salutogenesis as Heuristic for Resource-oriented Management Studies.- Sustainability and the Wrangling of Decision-Making Premises.- Sustainable Leadership: Strengthening the Resource Competence.- Sustainability Check: Getting Started with Systematic Sustainable Management.- Sustainability Management 4.0: An Integral Perspective.- The Ability to Tell a Transformative Story of Sustainable Development.