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Sustainable development in organizations : studies on innovative practices / edited by Mattias Elg (department of management and engineering (IEI), director of HELIX VINN Excellence Centre, Linköping University, Sweden), Per-Erik Eilström (department of behavioural sciences and learning (IBL), co-director of HELIX VINN Excellence Centre, Linköping University, Sweden), Magnus Klofsten (department of management and engineering (IEI), Linköping University, Sweden), Malin Tillmar (department of management and engineering (IEI), co-director of HELIX VINN Excellence Centre, Linköping University, Sweden)

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Edward Elgar E-Book ArchivePublisher: Cheltenham, U.K ; Northampton, Mass, USA : Edward Elgar, 2015Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 378 pages) : diagramsISBN:
  • 9781784716899
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781784716882. | Erscheint auch als: 9781784716882 (hardback) | Erscheint auch als: Sustainable development in organizations. Druck-Ausgabe. Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015. xii, 378 SeitenDDC classification:
  • 658.406
RVK: RVK: QC 347LOC classification:
  • HC79.E5
DOI: DOI: 10.4337/9781784716899Online resources: Production credits:
  • An increasingly competitive environment can lead to considerable problems for many organizations as they struggle to adapt to change. As a result, they fail to create the conditions that can lead to sustainable development over the long term, thus affecting the capabilities of employees. This book provides a fresh perspective on sustainable change and development in organizations, as well as a critical perspective on lean implementation, work environment and sustainability. The expert contributors address the development in, and of, organizations, as well as the development process between organizations, such as in networks or clusters. They discuss topics, such as the role of customers in the development of public organizations; developing knowledgeable practice at work; exploring evidence-based practice and the challenge of regional gender contracts. Undergraduates and postgraduates in different management fields including organizational theory, innovation, human resources, quality development and entrepreneurship will find this book to be of interest. The empirical results and interdisciplinary approach will appeal to practitioners and policy-makers at national, as well as international levels.
Summary: 1. Sustainable development in organizations / Mattias Elg ... [et al.] -- 2. Subsidiarity in the organization - a key issue to prevent psychosocial risk / François Danelliou -- 3. Lean implementation, work environment and sustainability / Jörgen Eklund, Agneta Halvarsson Lundkvist and Pernilla Lindskog -- 4. Conditions for presenteeism and production in changing organizations / Kerstin Ekberg, Maria Gustavsson and Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl -- 5. Towards the collaborative hospital - harnessing the potential of enabling care processes and structures / Thim Prætorious ... [et al.] -- 6. Program steering by learning / Agneta Halvarsson Lundkvist and Henrik Kock -- 7. The role of customers in the development of public organizations / Jon Engström ... [et al.] -- 8. Developing knowledgeable practice at work / Karen Evans -- 9. Trajectories of learning in practice-based innovation - organizational roles at play in sustainable innovation management / Mervi Hasu ... [et al.] -- 10. Exploring evidence-based practice in practice - the case of social work / Gunilla Avby, Per Nilsen and Per-Erik Ellström -- 11. New forms of organizations - new ways to organize / Lena Högberg, Elisabeth Sundin and Malin Tillmar -- 12. Women small-business owners' challenge of regional gender contracts / Birgitta Sköld -- 13. Organizational formalization in new high tech ventures - a dual-actor process / Ingela Sölvell -- 14. The Nordic model in a global company situated in Norway - challenging institutional orders? / Hege Eggen Børve and Elin Kvande -- 15. The permeable university - a study of PHD student mobility and academic entrepreneurship intentions / Dzamila Bienkowska, Henry Etzkowitz and Magnus Klofsten -- 16. Understanding cluster initiatives in Europe - uniqueness and contextuality / Inessa Laur and Alain Fayolle -- 17. Theory based evaluation - a range of approaches to asses impact / Veronica Gaffey and Marielle Riché -- 18. Three approaches to impact evaluation of regional development / Evert Vedung and Staffan Bjurulf -- 19. Interactive research and on-going evaluations as joint learning processes / Lennart Svensson, Göran Brulin and Per-Erik Ellström.Summary: An increasingly competitive environment can lead to considerable problems for many organizations as they struggle to adapt to change. As a result, they fail to create the conditions that can lead to sustainable development over the long term, thus affecting the capabilities of employees. This book provides a fresh perspective on sustainable change and development in organizations, as well as a critical perspective on lean implementation, work environment and sustainability. The expert contributors address the development in, and of, organizations, as well as the development process between organizations, such as in networks or clusters. They discuss topics, such as the role of customers in the development of public organizations; developing knowledgeable practice at work; exploring evidence-based practice and the challenge of regional gender contracts. Undergraduates and postgraduates in different management fields including organizational theory, innovation, human resources, quality development and entrepreneurship will find this book to be of interest. The empirical results and interdisciplinary approach will appeal to practitioners and policy-makers at national, as well as international levelsPPN: PPN: 1023445093Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE
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