Organizational Management Sustainability in VUCA Contexts is an insightful and comprehensive book that delves into the complex interplay between sustainability and the challenging landscapes of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA). With a focus on bridging the gap between present and future generations, this book navigates the intricate web of economic success, social development, environmental health, and societal stability.

Drawing upon a blend of theoretical foundations and practical examples, this book aims to unravel the phenomenon of sustainability in VUCA contexts by analyzing both exemplary and detrimental management practices across public and private sectors. Through a series of meticulously crafted chapters, the authors assess, treat, communicate, monitor, review, and discuss the methods, best practices, and requisite conditions for fostering sustainable organizations.

Targeting a diverse audience of academics, policy makers, and entrepreneurs, this book serves as an invaluable resource for academic institutions, students specializing in business disciplines, and organizations in both public and private spheres. Moreover, anyone with a vested interest in contemporary business issues, prospective strategies, organizational sustainability, and economies in VUCA situations will find this book an indispensable guide.

Key topics related to sustainability covered in this book include successful cases, strategies for implementing policies, informal enterprises, the future of sustainability, the role of artificial intelligence in promoting the concept, the influence of customers on practices, the connection between organizational culture and sustainability, the impact of sustainable development goals on corporate policies, fostering sustainable behavior among workers, green marketing and green consumers, strategies and governance for development, diverse methods and approaches, and programs, tools, measurement processes, incentives, and objectives for effective implementation of strategies. Additionally, this book explores the synergy between innovation and sustainability, examines the critical intersection with logistics, and sheds light on the detrimental effects of predatory organizations on sustainability.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Economic and Social Development
Environmental Health
Governance
Innovation
Management
Measurement and Evaluation
Organizational Culture
Organizations
Public and Private Sectors
Stakeholders
Strategy
Sustainability
Sustainable Development
Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity (VUCA)

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Editor/Author Biographies

Rafael Perez-Uribe is a Doctor in Business Sciences Nebrija University. Diploma of Advanced Studies in Applied Economics, Nebrija University. Master in Organization Management EAN University. Maître es Sciences Université du Québec a Chicoutimi. Specialist in Evaluation and Construction of Management Indicators for Higher Education, School of Business Administration. Postgraduate studies such as Kenkyusei (Researcher attached) in Total Quality Control and Quality Circles, Fukushima University, Japan. Business Administrator, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. Former Full professor assigned to the Research Department and director of the management research group of large, small, and medium-sized companies (G3PYMES-A1 in Minciencias) of the EAN University. At the present time, Senior Researcher categorized by Minciencias; Currently professor and Researcher at La Salle University and Santotomas University in Bogotá-Colombia. Modeling expert. I have participated in the structuring in many management models that include diagnosis, evaluation, and organizational intervention.

David Ocampo-Guzmán is Business Administration Faculty, EAN University, Colombia. He has expertise in defining, aligning, and addressing strategic planning and directing for companies and organizations, especially small and medium-sized firms. (SMEs). Prof. Ocampo-Guzmán is competent in attending organizational restructuring requirements for both private companies as well as public entities, leading assessment and evaluation processes procuring a profound and thorough organizational diagnosis, allowing the implementation of new management models and/or the upgrade of current ones, which include designing and applying Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Carlos Salcedo-Perez holds a Phd In Business. M.S. in Economic Development. B.S. in Business Administration. He is a university professor and researcher.

Andrés Carvajal-Contreras is an economic theorist, with emphasis in general equilibrium, financial economics and mathematical economics. Starting in January 2020, he will be Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mathematical Economics. He was Co-Chair of the 2018 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Co-Editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics and Associate Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Economics. Professor Carvajal investigates the ways in which imperfections in markets affect the performance of economic systems and, ultimately, the well-being of the members of a society. He has also done research on the development of empirical tests of models of rational behavior, on the informational and behavioral foundations of equilibrium theory, and on environmental economics.

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