Transformative Action for Sustainable Outcomes

This book critically examines sustainability challenges that humankind faces and offers responsible organising as a solution in responding to these challenges.

Informationen zum Autor Maria Sandberg is a postdoctoral researcher at Hanken School of Economics, Finland. Her main research interests are sustainability transitions towards degrowth, sufficiency, and sustainable production-consumption systems. Janne Tienari is Professor in Management and Organisation at Hanken School of Economics, Finland. His research interests include gender and diversity, feminist theory, strategy work, managing multinational corporations, mergers and acquisitions, and branding, media, and social media. Klappentext This book critically examines sustainability challenges that humankind faces and offers responsible organising as a solution in responding to these challenges. The text explores how different actors can responsibly organise for transformative action towards sustainable outcomes, as expressed in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Responsible refers to a reflexive understanding of how to organise in times of sustainability challenges. Organising refers to activities and practices where different actors take transformative action together. This comprehensive edited collection of short, clear, concise, and compelling chapters brings together scholars in a range of disciplines and blends theoretical perspectives to study humans and social interactions, organisations, nonhumans, and living environments. It offers topical examples from across the world and from organising of companies and other organisations, supply chains, networks, ecosystems, and markets.The book is written for scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities as well as for practitioners working with the SDGs. It discusses complex issues in an informative and engaging way. It is critical and collaborative. The book serves as an introduction to key themes and perspectives of responsible organising and offers new insights on connections between themes and perspectives. Zusammenfassung This book critically examines sustainability challenges that humankind faces and offers responsible organising as a solution in responding to these challenges. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: A road map to responsible organising 1. Responsible organising: An introduction 2. Corporate social responsibility is useful only when it is made useful 3. Diversity must be refocused to enable responsible organising 4. Responsibility is not only about humans Part II: Responsibility in a changing world 5. Global risks: Fundamentals are (not) changing 6. Re-emergence of geopolitics and façades of responsibility 7. Cross-sector collaborations for responsibility 8. The ecosystem approach to responsibility 9. The (ir)responsibility of organisational innovation 10. (Re)organising supply chains for responsibility 11. Responsible markets and marketing Part III: Challenging inequalities 12. The logistification of humanitarian relief 13. "Corporate saviourism" and poverty in the Global South 14. Social media and bias 2.0 15. Intersectional inequalities and how to fight them 16. Work, care, and gendered (in)equalities Part IV: Engaging with the nonhuman world 17: The nature-human dichotomy within disaster governance 18. Humans and water: The problem(s) with affordability 19. Human and nonhuman animals in a posthuman reality: Accreditation schemes as voice? 20. Ontological multiplicity: Responsible organising in defence of life Part V: Responsible organising: Ways forward 21. Responsible organising: Ways forward ...

Autorentext

Maria Sandberg is a postdoctoral researcher at Hanken School of Economics, Finland. Her main research interests are sustainability transitions towards degrowth, sufficiency, and sustainable production-consumption systems.

Janne Tienari is Professor in Management and Organisation at Hanken School of Economics, Finland. His research interests include gender and diversity, feminist theory, strategy work, managing multinational corporations, mergers and acquisitions, and branding, media, and social media.

Inhalt

Part I: A road map to responsible organising

1. Responsible organising: An introduction

2. Corporate social responsibility is useful only when it is made useful

3. Diversity must be refocused to enable responsible organising

4. Responsibility is not only about humans

Part II: Responsibility in a changing world

5. Global risks: Fundamentals are (not) changing

6. Re-emergence of geopolitics and façades of responsibility

7. Cross-sector collaborations for responsibility

8. The ecosystem approach to responsibility

9. The (ir)responsibility of organisational innovation

10. (Re)organising supply chains for responsibility

11. Responsible markets and marketing

Part III: Challenging inequalities

12. The logistification of humanitarian relief

13. "Corporate saviourism" and poverty in the Global South

14. Social media and bias 2.0

15. Intersectional inequalities and how to fight them

16. Work, care, and gendered (in)equalities

Part IV: Engaging with the nonhuman world

17: The nature-human dichotomy within disaster governance

18. Humans and water: The problem(s) with affordability

19. Human and nonhuman animals in a posthuman reality: Accreditation schemes as voice?

20. Ontological multiplicity: Responsible organising in defence of life

Part V: Responsible organising: Ways forward

21. Responsible organising: Ways forward