Sustainability

Elisabeth Krull and Jonatan Pinkse

Chapter 4.64 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 589-591 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) perspective offers a unique analytical lens for exploring how sustainability becomes embedded – or resisted – within organisational strategies and understanding how practitioners, practices, and praxis change to address and respond to sustainability challenges. SAP researchers have explored sustainability through key themes such as balancing conflicting priorities, strategic framing and enactment and inter-organisational collaboration, shedding light on how businesses integrate or resist sustainability into their core strategies. The growing importance of sustainability highlights the need to understand how practices help frame, legitimise, and enact, and also inhibit these initiatives. Future research could critically explore how sustainability strategies are framed, contested, and operationalised across diverse contexts and organisational levels. This calls for more disruptive research agendas that challenge conventional wisdom and reveal the often-hidden dynamics of sustainability strategising.

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Climate change; Poverty; Inequalities; Private sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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