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Book SynopsisOrganizing for Sustainable Effectiveness highlights research and practice aimed at understanding how organizations and more inclusive systems of actors develop a continuous, unfaltering focus on sustainability. It will examine how they organize to achieve expanded purposes, the associated changes in purpose and governance, relationships among various stakeholders, boundaries between organizations and other elements of the environment in which they operate, organizational systems and processes, leadership, competencies and capabilities. Thus 'sustainability' is seen as entailing a continuous dynamic adaptive process in people, organizations and systems, striving to be as proactive as possible, moving 'upstream' in improving and developing organizational processes and issues.
Table of ContentsBuilding Networks and Partnerships for Sustainability: Introduction to the Volume. Acknowledgments. About the contributors. Organizing for Sustainability: Why Networks and Partnerships?. Using Trans-Organizational Development and Complexity Theory Frameworks to Establish a New Early Childhood Education Network. Sustainability at the Cleveland Clinic: A Network-Based Capability Development Approach. Loblaw Sustainable Seafood: Transforming the Seafood Supply Chain through Network Development and Collaboration. Innovating Health Care through Multi-Stakeholder Partnership: The Welfare Italia Servizi Case. The Role of Marginal Stakeholders in Sustainability Networks: The Beijing Water Network Case. Perspectives of New Public Governance: Organizing Public Goods Cooperatively in the Health and Social Sector. Toward Shared Governance for Sustainability: U.S. Public and Private Sector Roles. Studying Networks and Partnerships for Sustainability: Lessons Learned. Building Networks and Partnerships. Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness. Building Networks and Partnerships. Copyright page. List of Contributors.
