Managing Organizations for Sustainable Development in Emerging Countries

Managing Organizations for Sustainable Development in Emerging Countries focuses on the main challenges and opportunities of managing firms and emerging economies in the light of sustainable development. One of the key questions of sustainable development is how organizations from developing countries are achieving their economic goals while considering, simultaneously, environmental issues like conservation of natural resources, eco-efficiency, biodiversity conservation, and climate-change mitigation. These questions are relevant for government, industry, and urban sustainability. However, in the modern literature that discusses organizational management for sustainable development, few studies focus on the reality of organizations from emerging countries. Moreover, changing environmental legislation in emerging countries (such as China and Brazil) will affect organizational managers. In this context, this book may contribute to organizational management in the search for more sustainable organizations, as well as deal with the challenges of managing organizations in the context of increased social problems, degradation of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, and climate change.

This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology.

Angappa Gunasekaran is Professor and Dean at the Charlton College of Business, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (USA). She is also Editor in Chief of more than ten scientific journals.

Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour is Associate Professor, UNESP-Sao Paulo State University and Editor in Chief of Latin American Journal of Management for Sustainable Development.

Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour is Assistant Professor, UNESP-Sao Paulo State University. She is also Deputy Editor of Latin American Journal of Management for Sustainable Development.