In Gayle C Avery and Harald Bergsteiner (eds.). Sufficiency Thinking: Thailand’s Gift to an Unsustainable World. pp. 3-14.
Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

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In Gayle C. Avery and Harald Bergsteiner (eds.). Sufficiency Thinking: Thailand’s Gift to an Unsustainable World.
pp. 235-247. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

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Transforming organisations towards sustainable practices.
Republished as Chapter 16 in Westover, J.H. (ed.) The Organizational and Business Ethics Imperative.
Common Ground, Champaign, Illinois.
ISBN-13: 978-1612297798 pp. 260-274.

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Fresh Thoughts in Sustainable Leadership: Vol. 1.
ISBN: 9780734611352

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Understanding how to create and maintain high performing, resilient, environmentally-friendly and socially-responsible organisations and societies requires input from many disciplines, insights from researchers with diverse backgrounds, and leadership from business and government.
A good place to start is with an understanding of the issues. The multi-disciplinary author team on Fresh Thoughts in Sustainable Leadership quite provocatively covers diverse topics related to establishing sustainable leadership in different national and industry settings.
The contributions are based on current research into sustainable leadership presented at symposia run by the Institute for Sustainable Leadership.

Fresh Thoughts in Sustainable Leadership contains 16 chapters organised into three parts.
Part I contains chapters concerned with transforming organisations towards sustainable practices. Then, as the chapters in Part II indicate, leadership plays a major role in creating and maintaining sustainable enterprises. Part III in turn then covers a fundamental aspect of sustainable leadership, namely what educators are doing for sustainability, particularly in universities.

Overall, the chapters in Fresh Thoughts in Sustainable Leadership examine many aspects of sustainable leadership – from transformational change and leadership issues to education; from insoluble problems to easy-to-use tools for under-resourced small businesses and individuals; and from cultural change at the national level to ways in which individuals can become proactive, civil and skilled at picking up cues related to sustainability.

With contributors from multiple continents including Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe, this book offers the reader a stimulating journey through these fresh thoughts.

Chapter 3 in Westover, J.H. Socially Responsible and Sustainable Business around the Globe: The New Age of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Common Ground.
ISBN: 9781612290805

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This is a reprint of a paper that the authors published in 2009: Transforming organisations towards sustainable practices. International Journal of the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 4(1), 397-408.

Ling Wong, an experienced executive who has dedicated herself to helping others achieve sustainable leadership, calls for a completely different way of thinking for businesses seeking to be sustainable.

We are delighted that this paper has been selected to appear in an edited volume of papers on socially responsible business.

Abstract:
Sustainability in organisations is not just about addressing social responsibility or meeting triple bottom line criteria to maximise shareholders’ short-term interests. This paper proposes that sustainability can only be created when business leaders transform the way they currently think, challenge economic myths, and adopt a systematic and holistic view.

This will generate a philosophy of leadership that embraces a set of sustainable values and principles. Sustainable practices will become embedded in corporate strategies, balancing hard and soft goals for the long-term interests of multiple stakeholders. To execute such sustainable strategies well, demands a culture of enrichment, trust, shared values, professionalism and collegiality, learning, innovation and communitarianism.

Sustainability in organisations is created when all three components – leadership, corporate strategies and culture – reinforce each other for the long-term benefit of multiple stakeholders.

The yearbook is available online

ISL’s chapter is on pages 50-55.

Distributed internationally, the Yearbook presents key initiatives and actions by companies and organisations in the field of CSR and sustainable development, emphasising that today, more than ever, leaders must strive to create a world, which is fairer and more economically sustainable, with greater benefits for all.