Purpose – The paper seeks to offer an evaluation of the energy sector's contribution to sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in the last 30 years. Design/methodology/approach – Sustainable development indicators proposed by Latin American Energy...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify the alternative future scenarios for the international biomass market until the year 2020 and identify underlying steps needed toward a vital working and sustainable biomass market for energy purposes. Design/methodology/approach – Two...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline a comprehensive picture of the coverage of various certification schemes and sustainability principles relating to the entire value‐added chain of biomass and bioenergy and comparing them accordingly. Design/methodology/approach – A...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate “best practice” building strategies and sustainability‐oriented techniques and tools used to assess the energy performance of housing developments. The objective is to propose guidelines that can integrate futures thinking into the...

Purpose – The paper aims to design and prove the concept of micro-industry using trigeneration fuelled by biomass, for sustainable development in rural NW India. Design/methodology/approach – This is being tested at village Malunga, near Jodhpur in Rajasthan. The system components comprise...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an integrative model for how commitment to sustainability emerges at the organizational, functional, and individual levels within organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The research was conducted through a multi‐site, comparative case study using...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine the narratives of acceptance and resistance to the introduction of corporate environmentalism. Despite recognition that managers and senior executives play a primary role in corporate environmentalism, relatively few researchers have examined how...

Purpose – This paper seeks to improve the understanding of implementation processes that achieve corporate sustainability by providing explanatory knowledge about the role of change agents from a sensemaking perspective. The paper also aims to focus on the sustainability efforts of change...

Purpose – This paper aims to present an interactions and networks approach (INA) to the issue of change for sustainability, which can bring business out of the firm‐centric impasse and lead to collaborative action and transformation. Design/methodology/approach – This paper builds upon the...

Purpose – This paper's aim is to examine the catalytic and pivotal role of micro‐moments in organizations and their role in producing the possibility of sustainable or unsustainable change and transformation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs participant observation within an...