Advancing sustainability through change and innovation: A co-evolutionary perspective

Benn, SH; Baker, E

Advancing sustainability through change and innovation: A co-evolutionary perspective

Benn, SH

Baker, E

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Publisher:: Routledge
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Change Management, 2009, 9 (4), pp. 383 - 397
Issue Date:: 2009-01

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dc.contributor.author	Benn, SH https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5282-2255	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Baker, E	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Change Management, 2009, 9 (4), pp. 383 - 397	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1469-7017	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	This article addresses the problem of how change and innovation can create a fuller voice for ecological interests in organizations and public policy, raising issues about change mechanisms at the institutional versus organizational level. First, it suggests that the newer, systems-based and inclusive approaches to organizational development practice and theory may overcome shortcomings of earlier approaches to planned change. Second, it argues that co-evolutionary approaches that use complex adaptive systems thinking will more effectively structure such third-generation interventions by focusing on issues at the institutional level. Third, the article examines a dialectical model of institutional change which incorporates activist input and channels conflict into innovative outcomes. Finally, it presents a case example of how a dialectical model combined with a co-evolutionary perspective could foster the institutional change required to facilitate the integration of ecological priorities into the human systems of organisations.	en_US
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This article addresses the problem of how change and innovation can create a fuller voice for ecological interests in organizations and public policy, raising issues about change mechanisms at the institutional versus organizational level. First, it suggests that the newer, systems-based and inclusive approaches to organizational development practice and theory may overcome shortcomings of earlier approaches to planned change. Second, it argues that co-evolutionary approaches that use complex adaptive systems thinking will more effectively structure such third-generation interventions by focusing on issues at the institutional level. Third, the article examines a dialectical model of institutional change which incorporates activist input and channels conflict into innovative outcomes. Finally, it presents a case example of how a dialectical model combined with a co-evolutionary perspective could foster the institutional change required to facilitate the integration of ecological priorities into the human systems of organisations.

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