This book discusses the key concepts of the technologies that underpin the drive towards sustainability in today s complex world. The authors propose an integrated view of the frontiers facing any organization nowadays whether an enterprise, an administration or any human collective construction that operates with a goal, a mission or an objective. While a unified approach still seems unachievable, the authors have nevertheless tackled the amalgamation of the underpinning elements (theories, domains of expertise and practice) and propose a model for assimilating the new concepts with a global view to design the sustainable organizations of the future. The book paves a way towards a general convergence theory, which will manifest, as a by-product, genuine sustainability. Furthermore, and due to the fact that the same main principles apply, the book redesigns the notion of competitiveness , which today is too often simply reduced to profitability.

This book founds its main argument on the fact that the Industrial Revolution socio-economic models are now irrevocably shifting towards a new order (whatever the naming for it). Old notions with Growth as a chief example have by now become corroded , i.e. altered by a changing global environment. The dominant thinking of the past decades (and centuries) are analyzed, with a view to angle the core subject topic of new growth more adequately. A design-based approach backed by theory is favored with the remarkable capacity of opening new avenues for thinking growth in our society. This favorably supersedes previous systems dynamics methodologies as the relevant knowledge of impending parameters is lacking and the appropriate models depicting new growth ways are still unknown.