Value Creation for a Sustainable World Innovating for Ecological Regeneration and Human Flourishing

The ecological, social and technological challenges of the Anthropocene require developing and implementing new economic, business, and financial models to create sustainable value for a wide range of stakeholders including nature, society, and future generations. This book defines ‘sustainable value creation’ as bringing forth products, services, organizational forms, processes, actions, and policies which satisfy real social needs and contribute to the ecological regeneration of nature.

The book collects and analyzes innovative economic, business, and social models of sustainable value creation globally. It critically examines the existing mainstream models of business and financial value creation. In reviewing both traditional and sustainability-oriented models, it focuses on both the challenges and opportunities inherent in a possible shift from models based on single-stakeholder wealth creation to models that propagate multidimensional value creation.

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business in Association with Future Earth series, this book aims to engage academics, and business and civil society practitioners to discuss innovative value creation models for a sustainable world. Interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange will be facilitated to inspire and cross-fertilize different knowledge and action fields as well as to promote intergenerational dialogue about the prospects of the human-earth system.

Part 1   Introduction.- Human Flourishing and Ecological Regeneration.- Is the Green Economy Saving the Planet or Saving Capitalism?.- Part 2   Sustainable Value Creation Models.- New Consciousness for the Sustainability Imperative.- Values-Driven Management and the Sustainable Development Goals.- Sustainable Development Goals for Business.- Business as Social Movement – The Case of Green Monday.- Community-Centred Enterprises in India.- The Role of Sami Culture in Creating Sustainable Value for Tourists – The Case of Jokkmokk's Market.- Beyond Fair Trade – Illy Café in Central and Latin America.- Helping the Disadvantaged, Helping the Society.- Located Making for Sustainable Enterprise.- Digitalization and Social Innovation (ENVIENTA).- Digital Female Entrepreneurship Creating Multidimensional Value: From Customers to Mobilized Citizens.- Principles and Models of the Community Economy.- Part 3   Enabling Policies for Socio-Ecological Wellbeing.- Ecological Restoration of Rivers with Dam Removals.- The Sufficiency Economy Philosophy as a Method for Sustainable Community Development: Case Studies of Local Governments in Thailand.- Sustainable Value Creation Models in Malaysia – The Sejahtera Leadership Experience.- Wellbeing Policies for Countries and Cities – Bhutan, New Zealand, Costa Rica, and Amsterdam.- Part 4   Ways Forward.- Sustainable Livelihood and the Fair Earth Share of Communities.

Laszlo Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center at Corvinus University of Budapest. He is Associate Member of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. He serves as President of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium.

Thomas Walker is Professor of Finance and Director of Emerging Risks Information Centre (ERIC) and the Jacques Ménard - BMO Centre for Capital Markets at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal.

Paul Shrivastava is Professor of Management at the Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. In 2018 he joined as a full member of the Club of Rome.