About
the Project
Positive
Design and Appreciative Construction: From Sustainable Development
to Sustainable Value
The
Advances in Appreciative Inquiry series features social
constructionist theories of organizational
and social transformation that make use of generative capacity
of language. The fourth in this series 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
value.
Chapters
will focus on three thematic areas:
- Contributors to the first one, positive design for sustainable value,
will respond
to questions such as:
- How
can the design approach help enhance the sustainable value
over profit value?
- What
needs to happen to create a vibrant community
of practice among design practitioners, scientists, business
and political
leaders?
- Contributors
to the second thematic area, Appreciative Intelligence
and Social
Innovation for Sustainable Value,
may provide case studies that
will show
that by reframing global problems
with an appreciative lens, organizations of all sorts can
indeed create social innovation and even establish
a “business case” for sustainable
value.
- The
third thematic area is focused on social entrepreneurship
for sustainable value.
Social entrepreneurship bridges the gap among established
organizations such as the businesses,
and citizen initiatives and has
the greatest
potential for validating sustainable
value as
a legitimate goal for organizations
of all sorts. Organizations such
as the Ashoka have demonstrated the power of wide-spread
social entrepreneurship. Contributors
to this area will
provide lessons
learned from high impact social
entrepreneurship or conceptualize how this nascent movement
with unbridled potential may
contribute to the radical shift
necessary for moving from sustainable development to
sustainable value.
Part of the inspiration
for the series comes from the 2009 BAWB Global Forum: Manage by Designing
in an Era of Massive Innovation The Forum is being co-convened by the
Center for BAWB, the United Nations Global Compact, and the Academy
of Management in June 2-5, 2009 in Cleveland, Ohio. For further information
see http://worldbenefit.case.edu/forum2009.
Attendance is highly recommended for prospective authors who
may also benefit from a special session with the editors of this volume.
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