Operationalizing Sustainability
In: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management Series
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title -- Copyright -- Note to all Contributors -- Note to the Reader -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- PART 1: Sustainability: Toward the Unification of Some Underlying Principles and Mechanisms -- 1: Toward a Sustainability Science -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. What does unification mean? -- 1.3. Coming back to sustainability: how many "sustainabilities"? -- 1.4. Sustainability: what kind of unification? An integration issue? -- 1.5. What kind of paradigm do we have to integrate? -- 1.6. The issue and the implementation of a new dimension -- 1.7. Extensions of the concept -- 2: Sustainability in Complex Systems -- 2.1. Preamble: theories of interconnected systems -- 2.2. Analysis of feedback phenomena in an assembly manufacturing cell -- 2.3. Application to complex systems: quantitative characteristics of a deterministic chaos -- 2.4. General considerations about interactions in networked organizations -- 2.5. Role of feedback in mimicry and ascendancy over others -- 2.6. Network theory: additional characteristics due to their new structure -- 2.7. Simplexification -- 2.8. Convergences in network theory -- 3: Extension: From Complexity to the Code of Thought -- 3.1. The code of thought: effects of cognition and psyche in global sustainability -- 3.2. Is sustainability the only technological and technocratic approach? -- 3.3. The three laws of sustainability: prediction and anticipation in complex systems -- 3.4. Consequence: toward a new dimension -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 3.6. Indicators for monitoring the EU sustainable development strategy -- PART 2: Operationalization: Methods, Techniques and Tools - the Need to Manage the Impact -- 4: From Context to Knowledge: Building Decision-making Systems -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. How about obtaining a sustainable knowledge?.