TY - JOUR
T1 - Enabling change for corporate sustainability
T2 - An integrated perspective
AU - Benn, Suzanne
AU - Dunphy, Dexter
AU - Griffiths, Andrew
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This article explores the processes of change that enable corporations to move towards sustainable practices, focusing on the human resource and business strategies that support rather than diminish global ecology and human/social capabilities. We argue that this unified approach is necessary to bring about a change in the interpretation of corporate sustainability and to support the activities of change agents (managers, consultants, and community activists) in managing the massive corporate change needed to move corporations toward sustainable practices in a systematic way. We propose a schema in the form of an integrated phase model for understanding how corporations move from compliance modes to the attainment of strategic sustainability and beyond to the 'ideal' or sustaining corporation. We discuss the leadership of change and the roles and strategies that corporate change agents can employ to bring about both incremental and tramformational change for sustainability.
AB - This article explores the processes of change that enable corporations to move towards sustainable practices, focusing on the human resource and business strategies that support rather than diminish global ecology and human/social capabilities. We argue that this unified approach is necessary to bring about a change in the interpretation of corporate sustainability and to support the activities of change agents (managers, consultants, and community activists) in managing the massive corporate change needed to move corporations toward sustainable practices in a systematic way. We propose a schema in the form of an integrated phase model for understanding how corporations move from compliance modes to the attainment of strategic sustainability and beyond to the 'ideal' or sustaining corporation. We discuss the leadership of change and the roles and strategies that corporate change agents can employ to bring about both incremental and tramformational change for sustainability.
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U2 - 10.1080/14486563.2006.9725129
DO - 10.1080/14486563.2006.9725129
M3 - Article
VL - 13
SP - 156
EP - 165
JO - Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
JF - Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
SN - 1448-6563
IS - 3
ER -