Buch(elektronisch)2015

Operationalizing Sustainability

In: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management Series

Massotte, Pierre; Corsi, Patrick

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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?.

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Operationalizing sustainability

In: Innovation, entrepreneurship and management series

Massotte, Pierre; Corsi, Patrick

This book focuses on the emergence of the science of sustainability and the key concepts in making sustainability operational in an organization. The authors discuss the methods, techniques and tools needed to manage the impact of sustainability and how these can be reformulated into business models and solutions for new growth and applications. They then move onto the reformulation of future thinking processes before ending by looking towards an approach for the measurement of sustainability and competitiveness

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