Organisational Change Management for Sustainability

Rodrigo is an expert on sustainable organisations. He has experience in business, consultancy, and academia. He is currently a visiting professor at Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa and guest lecturer at the Vienna University of Business and Economics, Austria. Rodrigo is also the Founder and director of Organisational Sustainability Ltd. (www.org-sustainability.com) and has had consultancies in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Mexico. He was Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Organisations for Sustainability and Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Cleaner Production. He was previously Full Professor of Organisational Sustainability University of Gävle, Sweden, Assistant Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and programme leader of the BA Environment and Business at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK. For over twenty years, Rodrigo has been working towards Sustainability in NGO's, universities, and corporations. His projects have ranged from sustainability competences and pedagogical approaches, chemical leasing, indoor-air quality and energy efficiency, to sustainability assessment and reporting, and to organisational change management. He has developed assessment tools such as the GRaphical Assessment of Sustainability Performance (GRASP), the Sustainability Tool for Assessing UNiversities Curricula Holistically (STAUNCH®) (shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Awards in 2008), and the Graphical Assessment for Sustainability in Universities (GASU™). Rodrigo holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering (graduated with honours) from Monterrey Tec, Mexico; a MSc in Environmental Management and Policy, from Lund University, Sweden; and a PhD on Organisational Change Management for Corporate Sustainability at Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Sustainable Development and Sustainability.- Chapter 3: Organisations, their system elements, and interactions.- Chapter 4: Organisations contributions to sustainability.- Chapter 5: Organisational change management for sustainability.- Chapter 6: Mechanisms for sustainability change in organisations: Leadership, Governance, and Assessment and reporting.- Chapter 7: Drivers for sustainability in organisations.- Chapter 8: Resistance to sustainability change in organisations and strategies to overcome it.- Chapter 9: Incorporation and institutionalisation of sustainability changes in organisations.- Chapter 10: External events impacts on organisational change management for sustainability.