Positive design and appreciative construction from sustainable development to sustainable value

This volume is focused on sustainable value which has become a widespread aspiration in all walks of life. By taking a generative approach and by building on positive design principles inherent in the appreciative inquiry methodology, we propose moving from sustainable development to sustainable val...

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Other Authors Thatchenkery, Tojo Joseph, Cooperrider, David L., Avital, Michel
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2010.
SeriesAdvances in appreciative inquiry ; v. 3.
Subjects
Sustainable development.
Sustainable development > Case studies.
Social entrepreneurship.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780857243706
ISSN1475-9152 ;
DOI10.1108/S1475-9152(2010)3
Physical Description1 online resource (xix, 337 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to positive design and appreciative construction : from sustainable development to sustainable value / Tojo Thatchenkery, Michel Avital and David L. Cooperrider
  • Creating sustainable value : a strength-based whole system approach / Chris Laszlo and David L. Cooperrider
  • designing a positive image : corporate branding and social responsibility / Mary Jo Hatch and Philip H. Mirvis
  • Bridging design and management for sustainability : epistemological problems and possibilities / Ulla Johansson and Jill Woodilla
  • A whole new value : driving innovation, sustainability and prosperity through appreciative inquiry / Nadya Zhexembayeva
  • The road to sustainable value : the path-dependent construction of sustainable innovation as sociomaterial practices in the car industry / Wietske Van Osch and Michel Avital
  • Stewardship design principles : learning from living systems (BIRDS) to codesign fast-forward futures / Anthony E. Smith
  • Forms of government and systemic sustainability : a positive design approach to the design of information systems / Kenneth E. Kendall and Julie E. Kendall
  • The generative potential of participatory geographic information systems / Dirk S. Hovorka and Nancy Auerbach
  • The art museum as laboratory for re-imagining a sustainable future / Theresa McNichol
  • Two inquiry-based approaches to sustainable value : positive design and integrative thinking / David Dunne
  • Sustainability and organizational change : employees perspective on the case of streamline manufacturing / Hilary Bradbury-Huang
  • Appreciative intelligence in action : a case study of sustainable value creation by Irupana Organic Food of Bolivia / Michael Daniel Metzger, Héctor Martinez and Miguel Angel Lopez
  • Social entrepreneurship : a model for sustainable value creation / Michael Pirson
  • Sustainability and impact of microfinance institutions : a case study of ACCION San Diego / Kokila Doshi
  • Positive design and construction of mechanisms for the sustainable development of micro-enterprises in Africa / Carol Dalglish and Judy Matthews
  • Creating macro actors for sustainable development / Chester C. Warzynski and Alesia Krupenikava.

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