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This innovative Research Handbook answers crucial questions about how individuals and organisations can make a difference towards sustainability. Offering an integrative perspective on sustainability agency, it reviews individual, active, organisational and relational forms of sustainability agency, demonstrating the capacity of individuals and organisations to act toward sustainable futures.   The Research Handbook investigates the relationships between agency and sustainability, demonstrating the importance of agency for different types of sustainability challenges, including mitigating environmental change and resource depletion. International contributors offer a multidisciplinary overview of the field, constructing detailed literature reviews on its many angles and variations. Concluding with a consolidative meta-review of sustainability agency, the Research Handbook offers directions for future research in the discipline.   Crucial reading for scholars and researchers of sustainability, this cutting-edge Research Handbook is particularly useful for those exploring new avenues for research in relation to agency. It will also benefit graduate students looking for an interdisciplinary perspective in the field, as well as practitioners, advocates and NGOs hoping to understand ways in which sustainability can be enacted in various contexts.

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Author:   Satu Teerikangas ,  Tiina Onkila ,  Katariina Koistinen ,  Marileena Mäkelä
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781803922546

ISBN 10:   1803922540
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   15 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency 1 Satu Teerikangas, Katariina Koistinen, Tiina Onkila, Marileena Mäkelä PART I INDIVIDUAL AGENCY 2 Theorising individual agency within sociotechnical sustainability transitions frames: a social psychological review 29 Paul Upham, Paula Bögel, Rita G. Klapper and Eva Kašperová 3 Sustainability agency at the top of the organization: microfoundations research on corporate sustainability 46 Ashley Salaiz, Shih-chi (Sana) Chiu and Judith L. Walls 4 Not dinosaurs but dynamos: the roles of middle managers in corporate social responsibility and sustainable development issues 62 Gustavo Birollo, Susana Esper and Linda Rouleau 5 Barriers to implementing sustainability experienced by middle managers in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods and Retail sector 75 Andrew Mountfield, Kelly Hrajnoha, Leslie Koh, Lija Lascenko, Renata Puchala and Cornelia Schalch 6 Employee agency in the context of organisational sustainability 92 Sally Russell, Fay Giæver and Tiina Onkila 7 The role of ambivalence in sustainable consumption: literature review and research agenda 103 Jenni Sipilä PART II ACTIVE AGENCY 8 Roles and practices of institutional workers in climate change action: a review 123 Jan Hermes and Mikołaj Pawlak 9 Sustainability activism: a review of the state of the art 139 Marileena Mäkelä and Laura Olkkonen 10 Emotions in sustainability work: the case of ecopreneurs 157 Fay Giæver and Sally Russell 11 Social entrepreneurship as sustainability agency 166 Hanna Lehtimäki, Subhanjan Sengupta, Ville-Veikko Piispanen and Kaisa Henttonen 12 Agency of citizen collectives in sustainable transitions: the case of renewable energy cooperatives in Europe 178 Thomas Hoppe and Beau Warbroek 13 Social movement organizations’ agency for sustainable organizing 194 Helen Etchanchu, Frank G.A. de Bakker and Giuseppe Delmestri PART III RELATIONAL AGENCY 14 Stakeholder engagement in sustainability transitions 211 Lara Gonzalez-Porras, Anna Heikkinen, Johanna Kujala and Riikka Tapaninaho 15 Partnerships to save the planet? Motivations, types and impacts of sustainability partnerships 227 Barbara Gray and Art Dewulf 16 The role of sustainability agency in mergers and acquisitions 245 Noelia-Sarah Reynolds and Melanie E. Hassett 17 Circular economy ecosystems: a typology, definitions, and implications 257 Leena Aarikka-Stenroos, Paavo Ritala and Llewellyn D. W. Thomas 18 Agency and sustainability in the construction industry 274 Niamh Murtagh and Natalya Sergeeva 19 Distributed agency in living labs for sustainability transitions 290 Anil Engez, Paul H. Driessen, Leena Aarikka-Stenroos and Marika Kokko 20 The interagency cycle in sustainability transitions 303 Ari Jokinen, Jarmo Uusikartano, Pekka Jokinen and Marika Kokko PART IV GOVERNANCE 21 Law, agency and sustainability: the role of law in creating sustainability agency 318 Jaakko Salminen and Mikko Rajavuori 22 Predictions from Transitions theories, Dynamic Capabilities and Real Options theory on the role of governments as agents of sustainability 331 Ilias Krystallis and Katariina Koistinen 23 Local governments using their agency in sustainable transitions 346 Thomas Hoppe 24 Corporate sustainability from a strategic management perspective: one way for companies to support sustainability transitions 362 Romana Rauter and Sabrina Lämmerer 25 Sustainable consumption in the developing world: the case of India 376 Shenaz Rangwala and Chanaka Jayawardhena 26 Sustainability practices in informal economies: actors, roles, and research outlook 390 Stefan Gröschl PART V SUSTAINABILITY AGENCY 27 Synthesis and future research directions 400 Satu Teerikangas, Katariina Koistinen, Tiina Onkila and Marileena Mäkelä Index

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Edited by Satu Teerikangas, Professor, Department of Management and Organisation, University of Turku, Finland and Honorary Professor, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, UK, Tiina Onkila, Associate Professor, Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä, Katariina Koistinen, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Management and Organisation, University of Turku and Marileena Mäkelä, Senior Lecturer, Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics and School of Resource Wisdom, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

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