Organizing for Sustainable Health Care: Introduction to Volume 2

Abstract

Welcome to the second volume of the series “Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness.” This series addresses the practical issue of how to organize for sustainability and generates theory analyses, general principles, and guidelines for action. Volume 1, Organizing for Sustainability (2011), included a rich set of cases about organizations that were making fundamental change to achieve the triple-bottom-line challenge of simultaneously achieving viable financial performance and fostering social and environmental health. Each chapter illuminated the development of a sustainable system and reported theoretically informed and rigorously explored knowledge to guide purposeful organizational design and learning for sustainability. The chapters collectively highlighted the importance of well-designed processes, organizing approaches, management systems, and continuous learning approaches in complex systems.

Citation

Albers Mohrman, S., (Rami) Shani, A.B. and Worley, C.G. (2012), "Organizing for Sustainable Health Care: Introduction to Volume 2", Albers Mohrman, S. and (Rami) Shani, A.B. (Ed.) Organizing for Sustainable Health Care (Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness, Vol. 2), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. xi-xiv. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2045-0605(2012)0000002003