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TY - JOUR
T1 - Open sustainability
T2 - Conceptualization and considerations
AU - Chakrabarti, Ronika
AU - Henneberg, Stephen
AU - S.Ivens, Björn
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - Sustainability represents a ‘grand challenge’, which can often not be addressed by actions of individuals or single organizations alone. To understand collaborative sustainability activities, in this article we propose the concept of open sustainability. We derive open sustainability from literature in the areas of sustainability, open approaches, and open innovation, and define the concept based on key tenets as follow: open sustainability refers to an orchestrated distributed process in which a focal company interacts with partners across organizational boundaries in order to better achieve its own (micro-level) sustainability objectives, its direct nets' (meso-level) sustainability objectives, and the broader networks' (macro-level) sustainability objectives, both short and long term. Based on this definition, we introduce the articles of our special section on open sustainability.
AB - Sustainability represents a ‘grand challenge’, which can often not be addressed by actions of individuals or single organizations alone. To understand collaborative sustainability activities, in this article we propose the concept of open sustainability. We derive open sustainability from literature in the areas of sustainability, open approaches, and open innovation, and define the concept based on key tenets as follow: open sustainability refers to an orchestrated distributed process in which a focal company interacts with partners across organizational boundaries in order to better achieve its own (micro-level) sustainability objectives, its direct nets' (meso-level) sustainability objectives, and the broader networks' (macro-level) sustainability objectives, both short and long term. Based on this definition, we introduce the articles of our special section on open sustainability.
KW - Sustainability
KW - Open approaches
KW - Open innovation
KW - Concept development
U2 - 10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.04.024
DO - 10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.04.024
M3 - Editorial
VL - 89
SP - 528
EP - 534
JO - Industrial Marketing Management
JF - Industrial Marketing Management
SN - 0019-8501
ER -