Corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the inside out
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Corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the inside out. / Schaltegger, Stefan; Girschik, Verena; Trittin-Ulbrich, Hannah et al.
In: Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, Vol. 33, No. 2, 04.2024, p. 145-156.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the inside out
AU - Schaltegger, Stefan
AU - Girschik, Verena
AU - Trittin-Ulbrich, Hannah
AU - Weissbrod, Ilka
AU - Daudigeos, Thibault
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2024/4
Y1 - 2024/4
N2 - Sustainable development requires sustainability transformations of (so far unsustainable) companies. Sustainability transformations of companies do not happen by themselves but are the result of individuals and groups who purposefully act for sustainability. It is individual managers and employees within an organization—so-called “change agents for sustainability”—who play a vital role in advancing corporate sustainability, as they are responsible for starting initiatives, making decisions, and implementing measures. Recent contributions have started to address the transformational role of individual sustainability professionals and employees shaping decisions around social and environmental issues in organizations. An overview and conceptualization of what can be understood by change agents for sustainability, their roles, and interactions is however missing. This article therefore proposes a framework and typology of six archetypes of change agents for sustainability: their key competencies and roles in initiating, scaling, and sustaining change in and beyond organizational boundaries.
AB - Sustainable development requires sustainability transformations of (so far unsustainable) companies. Sustainability transformations of companies do not happen by themselves but are the result of individuals and groups who purposefully act for sustainability. It is individual managers and employees within an organization—so-called “change agents for sustainability”—who play a vital role in advancing corporate sustainability, as they are responsible for starting initiatives, making decisions, and implementing measures. Recent contributions have started to address the transformational role of individual sustainability professionals and employees shaping decisions around social and environmental issues in organizations. An overview and conceptualization of what can be understood by change agents for sustainability, their roles, and interactions is however missing. This article therefore proposes a framework and typology of six archetypes of change agents for sustainability: their key competencies and roles in initiating, scaling, and sustaining change in and beyond organizational boundaries.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - Ecological / Sustainability
KW - Leaders / Leadership
KW - Managers
KW - Organizational
KW - Management studies
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U2 - 10.1111/beer.12645
DO - 10.1111/beer.12645
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 33
SP - 145
EP - 156
JO - Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility
JF - Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility
SN - 2694-6416
IS - 2
ER -