Leading Sustainable Change An Organizational Perspective

by Henderson, Rebecca; Gulati, Ranjay; Tushman, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780198704072
• ISBN10: 0198704070
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-03-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Rebecca Henderson, John & Natty McArthur University Professor, Harvard Business School,Ranjay Gulati, Jaime and Josephina Chua Tiampo Professor, Harvard Business School,Michael Tushman, Paul R. Lawrence, MBA Class of 1942 Professor, Harvard Business School

Rebecca Henderson is John & Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, and a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is also faculty co-chair of HBS's Initiative for Business and the Environment.
Her research focuses on the difficulties large organizations encounter in attempting to innovate and change, particularly in response to the challenge of sustainability. She has worked with some of the largest firms in the world and with entrepreneurial start-ups in a wide variety of industries including energy, pharmaceuticals, information technology, materials and consumer goods.
In May 2011, Dr. Henderson was appointed to the U.S. Department of Commerce Innovation Advisory Board which guided a study of U.S. economic competitiveness and innovation to help inform national policies at the heart of U.S. job creation and global competitiveness, and in June 2013 she became a member of the World Economic Forum's global agenda council on the role of business.

Ranjay Gulati is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor and the Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is also the Chair of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program.
He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues in firms. His recent work explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high growth organizations in turbulent markets. Some of his prior work has focused on the enablers and implications of within-firm and inter-firm collaboration. He has looked at both when and how firms should leverage greater connectivity within and across their boundaries to enhance performance.
Professor Gulati is the past-President of the Business Policy and Strategy Division at the Academy of Management and an elected fellow of the Strategic Management Society. He was ranked as one of the top ten most cited scholars in Economics and Business over a decade by ISI-Incite.

Michael L. Tushman Is the faculty chair of Leading Change and Organizational Renewal (LCOR) and the Program for Leadership Development (PLD) at the Harvard Business School. Prior to PLD, Tushman was faculty chair of the Advanced Management Program (AMP). At Columbia, he won the first W. H. Newman Award for excellence and innovation in the classroom; in 2005, Tushman was named Lecturer of the Year at CHAMPS, Chalmers University of Technology; in 2008 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva where he was commended by the university as a scholar internationally recognized for his work on the relationships between technological change and organizational evolution; in 2011 he was given the Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour & Relevance in the Study of Management from London Business School; in 2013 he was awarded the Academy of Management Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management

Table of Contents

Foreword David Jones, CEO of Havas
Introduction
1. Leading Sustainable Change: An Introduction, Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, Michael Tushman
2. Making the Business Case for Sustainability, Rebecca Henderson
The Big Picture
3. Stumbling Towards Sustainability, John Sterman
4. From Periphery to Core: A Process Model for Embracing Sustainability, Luciana Silvestri and Ranjay Gulati
5. How Purpose-Based Companies Master Change for Sustainability: A Systemic Approach to Global Social Change, Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The role of the senior team
6. Staying the Same while Changing: Organizational Identity in the Face of Environmental Challenges, Mary Ann Glynn, Christi Lockwood and Ryan Raffaelli
7. Two Tales of One City: Samsung, Daewoo, and Lessons on Large-Scale Transformation, Donald Sull
8. Chief Sustainability Officers: Who are they and what do they do?, Kathy Miller and George Serafeim
Exploring the processes of change
9. Two Roads to Green: A Tale of Bureaucratic versus Distributed Leadership Models of Change, Deborah Ancona, Elaine Backman, and Kate Isaacs
10. Leading Proactive Punctuated Change, Michael Tushman, Charles O'Reilly and Bruce Harreld
Leading change in the broader system
11. The Role of Multiplier Firms and Megaprojects in Leading Change for Sustainability, Amy C. Edmondson, Martine Haas, John Macomber and Tiona Zuzul
12. Managing Shifting Goal Consensus and Task Ambiguity In Making the Transition to Sustainability, Alfred Marcus and Andrew Van der Ven
13. Sustainability & Organizational Change: An Institutional Perspective, Royston Greenwood, Dev Jennings and Bob Hinings