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Chapter 7: Determining Environmental Values: Storytelling At Bp., Jacob Massoud, David M. Boje
Chapter 7: Determining Environmental Values: Storytelling At Bp., Jacob Massoud, David M. Boje
Jacob Massoud
To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit. Values in Sustainable Development introduces and compares worldviews and values from multiple countries and perspectives, providing a survey of empirical methods available to study environmental values as affected by sustainable development. The first part is methodological, looking at what values are, why they are important, and how to include values in sustainable development. The second part looks at how values differ across social contexts, religions and viewpoints demonstrating how various individuals may value nature from a variety of cultural, …
Competing For Sustainability Within Carbon Constrained World: A Strategic Climate Change Planning Framework, Ananda Wickramasinghe, Helan Gamage
Competing For Sustainability Within Carbon Constrained World: A Strategic Climate Change Planning Framework, Ananda Wickramasinghe, Helan Gamage
Ananda Wickramasinghe
Addressing issue of Green House Gas emissions with climate change is becoming one of the critical social, economic, political and ecological issues for governments and businesses. Australia's per capita emission due to electricity is five times than the world average. This study explores government and firms especially resource sector strategic initiatives to date, and how foresight will develop capability in capitalising the changing climate change challenges, structure adaptation process and how different firms' strategies enhance sustainable innovation and knowledge management. Due to short-termism, and lack of emissions target strategy and carbon trading mechanism, country's climate strategic change initiative is fairly …
Airline Innovation And Sustainability: A Systems Perspective, Peter Critchley, Lee Styger
Airline Innovation And Sustainability: A Systems Perspective, Peter Critchley, Lee Styger
Lee Styger
Air transport has been the scene of remarkable and rapid innovation since man first controlled powered flight in Kitty Hawk in 1903. Significant developments in aviation technology, for example, the onset of the Jet Age, tend to dominate popular perception of aviation innovation. The commercial airline industry is hugely complex and inexorably tied to our economic, social and technological systems. Consequently, it is also on the leading edge of the sustainability debate. Modern air transportation has developed into a hugely complex system in a relatively short time. That rapid development and complexity, however, offers insights into how the industry can …
A Mathematical Decision-Making Procedure To Assist In The Development Of Sustainability Plans Based On The Stars Framework, Yu-Ti Huang, Vania R. Coelho, Jacob Massoud, Susan Briski, Ana Toepel, Marcia Silva
A Mathematical Decision-Making Procedure To Assist In The Development Of Sustainability Plans Based On The Stars Framework, Yu-Ti Huang, Vania R. Coelho, Jacob Massoud, Susan Briski, Ana Toepel, Marcia Silva
Jacob Massoud
Developing Sustainable Strategies: Foundations, Method, And Pedagogy, Scott Kelley
Developing Sustainable Strategies: Foundations, Method, And Pedagogy, Scott Kelley
Scott Kelley
While the United Nations Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) is a very positive development in the horizon of management education over the last decade, there are still many significant challenges for engaging the mind of the manager in ways that will foster the values of PRME and the UN Global Compact. Responsible management education must address three foundational challenges in business education if it is to actualize the aspirations of PRME: 1) it must confront the cognitional myth that knowing is like looking, 2) it must move beyond mere analysis to systems thinking, and 3) it must transition from …
Moving Beyond Boycotts: Strategies For Shared Responsibility In The Collegiate Apparel Industry, Scott Kelley
Moving Beyond Boycotts: Strategies For Shared Responsibility In The Collegiate Apparel Industry, Scott Kelley
Scott Kelley