The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the increasingly complex, interdependent nature of societal and environmental issues for governments and business. Tackling such "grand challenges" requires the concerted action of a multitude of organizations and multiple stakeholders at different levels in the public, private, and non-profit sector. Organizing for Sustainable Development provides an integrated and comparative overview of the successes and failures of organizational efforts to tackle global societal issues and achieve sustainable development. Summarizing years of study by an interdisciplinary board of authors and contributors, this book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of how existing businesses and new hybrid organizations can achieve sustainable development to bring about an improved society, marking a key contribution to the literature in this field. Combining theoretical views with empirical approaches, the chapters in this book are highly relevant to graduate and undergraduate (multidisciplinary) programs in sustainable development, organization studies, development economics, development studies, international management, and social entrepreneurship.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the increasingly complex, interdependent nature of societal and environmental issues for governments and business. Tackling such "grand challenges" requires the concerted action of a multitude of organizations and multiple stakeholders at different levels in the public, private, and non-profit sector. Organizing for Sustainable Development provides an integrated and comparative overview of the successes and failures of organizational efforts to tackle global societal issues and achieve sustainable development. Summarizing years of study by an interdisciplinary board of authors and contributors, this book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of how existing businesses and new hybrid organizations can achieve sustainable development to bring about an improved society, marking a key contribution to the literature in this field. Combining theoretical views with empirical approaches, the chapters in this book are highly relevant to graduate and undergraduate (multidisciplinary) programs in sustainable development, organization studies, development economics, development studies, international management, and social entrepreneurship.

Die Transformation der ostdeutschen Wirtschaft nach 1989 ist ein in der Wirtschaftsgeschichte einmaliger Vorgang. Neben der Wahrungsunion war die schnelle Privatisierung des ostdeutschen Staatsbesitzes durch die Treuhandanstalt zentrales Element der anfanglichen Transformationsstrategie, die bekanntermassen erhebliche negative Folgen erzeugte. Will man jedoch die damit verbundenen Probleme angemessen verstehen und bewerten, ist es unerlasslich, sich naher mit ihrer Entstehungsgeschichte auseinanderzusetzen. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt anhand der Privatisierung und Restrukturierung der ostdeutschen Werft- und Stahlindustrie von 1990 bis 1994 - zwei der schwierigsten und prominentesten Falle - wie die Transformation politisch und okonomisch bewaltigt wurde. Dabei wird bisher unveroffentlichtes Material zu den politischen Entscheidungsprozessen prasentiert und dieses mit Hilfe neuester sozialwissenschaftlicher Theorien und Methoden (Steuerungstheorie und Netzwerkanalyse) ausgewertet. Der Autor wurde fur die Arbeit im Dezember 2001 vom Arbeitgeberverband Sudwestmetall mit dem Sudwestmetallpreis ausgezeichnet