Healthcare, as it is currently organized, is not sustainable. Healthcare systems in the developed world are encountering increased demand for high quality healthcare but facing societal resource limits. Healthcare managers, professionals and academics worldwide are debating how to redesign its...

Volume 3 of the Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness series gives readers insights into how organizations use networks, partnerships, and collaboration to achieve better and more sustainable results. Volume editors Christopher Worley and Philip Mirvis contend that globalization and its...

Purpose This chapter introduces the volume’s theme by considering how the forces of globalization and complexity are leading organizations to reshape and redesign themselves, how meeting the challenges of sustainable effectiveness and shared value require multiorganization networks and...

Welcome to the second volume of the series “Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness.” This series addresses the practical issue of how to organize for sustainability and generates theory analyses, general principles, and guidelines for action. Volume 1, Organizing for Sustainability (2011),...

Purpose This chapter introduces the volume’s theme by describing the challenges of sustainability in the agri-food industry and the critical role of agri-food supply chains. Following a description of traditional and sustainable supply chain management practices, we discuss the likely...

Purpose – This chapter explores the use of evolutionary and institutionalization models to understand the progression of sustainability in organizations and their contribution to sustainable effectiveness. It describes the evolution of Gap, Inc.'s sustainability approach, its increasingly...