Value Creation for a Sustainable World Innovating for Ecological Regeneration and Human Flourishing

The ecological, social and technological challenges of the Anthropocene require developing and implementing new economic, business, and financial models to create sustainable value for a wide range of stakeholders including nature, society, and future generations. This book defines ‘sustainable value creation’ as bringing forth products, services, organizational forms, processes, actions, and policies which satisfy real social needs and contribute to the ecological regeneration of nature.

The book collects and analyzes innovative economic, business, and social models of sustainable value creation globally. It critically examines the existing mainstream models of business and financial value creation. In reviewing both traditional and sustainability-oriented models, it focuses on both the challenges and opportunities inherent in a possible shift from models based on single-stakeholder wealth creation to models that propagate multidimensional value creation.

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business in Association with Future Earth series, this book aims to engage academics, and business and civil society practitioners to discuss innovative value creation models for a sustainable world. Interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange will be facilitated to inspire and cross-fertilize different knowledge and action fields as well as to promote intergenerational dialogue about the prospects of the human-earth system.

Part 1   Introduction

Paul Shrivastava (The Pennsylvania State University and ICN Business School, Nancy) & Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest and Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford): Human Flourishing and Ecological Regeneration

Ove Jakobsen (Nord University, Bodo): Is the Green Economy Saving the Planet or Saving Capitalism? 

Part 2   Sustainable Value Creation Models 

David Wasieleski (Duquesne University & ICN Business School, Nancy): New Consciousness for the Sustainability Imperative

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff (Roskilde University): Values-Driven Management and the Sustainable Development Goals

David Donoghue (IE Business School, Madrid) and Eleanor O’Higgins (University College Dublin): Sustainable Development Goals for Business

Andras Ocsai (Corvinus University of Budapest): Business as Social Movement – The Case of Green Monday

Jagdish Rattanani (S P Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai): Community-Centred Enterprises in India 

Anna Sörensson (Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall): The Role of Sami Culture in Creating Sustainable Value for Tourists – The Case of Jokkmokk's Market

Knut Ims (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen) & Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest): Beyond Fair Trade – Illy Café in Central and Latin America

Madhumita Chatterji (ABBS School of Management, Bengaluru): Helping the Disadvantaged, Helping the Society

Wanlin Zhanga & Stuart Walker (Lancaster University) & Martyn Evans (Manchester School of Art): Located Making for Sustainable Enterprise

Jozsef Veress (Corvinus University of Budapest): Digitalization and Social Innovation (ENVIENTA)

Rosa Fioravante & Mara Del Baldo (University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”): Digital Female Entrepreneurship Creating Multidimensional Value: From Customers to Mobilized Citizens

Tamas Veress (Corvinus University of Budapest): Principles and Models of the Community Economy

Part 3   Enabling Policies for Socio-Ecological Wellbeing 

János Vargha (Danube Circle, Budapest): Ecological Restoration of Rivers with Dam Removals

Wanna  Prayukvong (Mahidol University), Apichai Puntasen (Rangsit University) & James E. Hoopes (Babson College): The Sufficiency Economy Philosophy as a Method for Sustainable Community Development: Case Studies of Local Governments in Thailand

Zulkifly Baharom (Sejahtera Leadership Initiative, Malaysia): Sustainable Value Creation Models in Malaysia – The Sejahtera Leadership Experience

Laszlo Zsolnai, Andras Ocsai, Gabor Kovacs, Kalman Kelemen, & Zoltan Valcsicsak (Corvinus University of Budapest): Wellbeing Policies for Countries and Cities – Bhutan, New Zealand, Costa Rica, and Amsterdam

Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest), Thomas Walker (Concordia University, Montreal) & Paul Shrivastava (Penn State University): Sustainable Livelihood and the Fair Earth Share of Communities

Laszlo Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center at Corvinus University of Budapest. He is Associate Member of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. He serves as President of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium.

Thomas Walker is Professor of Finance and Director of Emerging Risks Information Centre (ERIC) and the Jacques Ménard - BMO Centre for Capital Markets at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal.

Paul Shrivastava is Professor of Management at the Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. In 2018 he joined as a full member of the Club of Rome.