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- Title
Promoting sustainable organizations with Sweden's Natural Step.
- Authors
Bradbury, Hilary; Clair, Judith A.
- Abstract
A sustainable society can persist over generations, being farseeing, flexible, and wise enough to nourish its physical and social systems of support. Sustainable businesses are a key element in transforming society toward sustainability. For firms willing to inquire into the challenge presented by sustainable development, the journey ahead may involve radical transformation not only of organizational practices, but also of the ways of thinking that led to those practices in the first place. The Natural Step, a Stockholm-based environmental education organization has partnered with a number of major businesses in Sweden to promote organizational transformation as an important element in the societal shift toward sustainable development. This article examines the Natural Step--its philosophy, history, practices successes, possible limitations, and application to firms pursuing sustainability.
- Subjects
STOCKHOLM (Sweden); SWEDEN; CHANGE management; SUSTAINABLE development; SOCIAL systems; NATURAL Step (Organization); INDUSTRY &; the environment; STRATEGIC planning; ENVIRONMENTAL management; GREEN movement
- Publication
Academy of Management Executive, 1999, Vol 13, Issue 4, p63
- ISSN
1079-5545
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/AME.1999.2570555