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Sustainable development-organizing an organization in a way that it can function in the long term-began gaining global attention in 1983 when the United Nations created the Brundtland Commission to offer various ways to save the human environment and natural resources and promote economic and social development. Corporate sustainability not only depends on the business's ability to function over a long period but also on sustainable relationships with stakeholders. This text offers a comprehensive perspective covering salient aspects of sustainable development with chapters contributed by experts from various countries. It provides guiding principles and tools for transformation and generates knowledge about sustainable organizational designs, sustainable business models, co-creating value with multiple stakeholders, and organizational transformation for sustainability. Written for students, faculty, researchers, professionals, and practitioners in the corporate world, this book will be a valuable resource in promoting sustainable development. Chapter 11 provides a framework for effectively organizing with a focus on the Purpose-Process-People. Industrial-era organizations relied on the economics-driven approach; however, that approach isn't an appropriate fit for information-era organizations. Rather than using a hierarchy- and control-based organizing structure, businesses should use a flat, networked, trust-based structure, which democratizes the process of recognizing problems and creating solutions. This, in turn, results in new roles for managers at all levels of the company. Various businesses are offered as examples in using this new way of organizing.

• Corporate social responsibility
• Sustainable business practices
• Organizational development
• Social enterprise
• Organizational structure and design
• Organizational transformation
• Business management
• Business and society