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Purpose – This paper aims to provide an integrative model for how commitment to sustainability emerges at the … through a multi‐site, comparative case study using three large corporations with exemplary sustainability standings. Key … employees from each organization were interviewed. Interview transcripts and sustainability reports were analyzed using …
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sustainability. Six dominant discourses were identified. Three were resistant to corporate environmentalism: the pragmatist, the … context, the narratives and identities they constructed in relation to sustainability varied widely. These findings emphasize … the challenges inherent in developing an organizational identity that incorporates sustainability principles and the need …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that organizational change depends on societal narratives – narratives about the character, history, or envisioned future of societies. Design/methodology/approach – A case study of a Swedish municipal waste management company serves as an...
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sustainability initiatives. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 32 leaders and change agents were assessed for their meaning …
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The study has origins in paradoxical foundations: although the trends in the theory of organizational change emphasize organizational uniqueness, in a case study it was found that metacultural ideals about the rules, order, hierarchy and predictability were privileged and had a remarkable effect...
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sustainability by providing explanatory knowledge about the role of change agents from a sensemaking perspective. The paper also aims … to focus on the sustainability efforts of change agents in a multinational carpet tile manufacturer. Design … sustainability sensemaking in the Dutch subsidiary of the US‐based carpet tile manufacturer Interface over a period of ten years …
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sustainability, which can bring business out of the firm‐centric impasse and lead to collaborative action and transformation. Design … sustainability. Findings – By adopting INA business is able to discuss: the nature and role of the network in building systems level … necessary to enhance learning for sustainability. Research limitations/implications – Areas of future inquiry include …
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activity and ecological sustainability are to be achieved for posterity. Changing the economic myth means shifting the …
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Describes three approaches to incorporating sustainable development into the agri‐food system. Presents the argument that long‐term sustainable development demands trans‐formational change, whereas stop‐gap sustainable development measures can be introduced on an add‐on piecemeal...
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