The nexus of business sustainability and organizational learning: A systematic literature review to identify key learning principles for business transformation

Business Strategy and the Environment - Tập 30 Số 4 - Trang 1839-1851 - 2021
Verena Hermelingmeier1, Timo von Wirth2
1Schumpeter School of Business and Economics and Center for Transformation Research and Sustainability (Transzent) Bergische Universität Wuppertal Gaußstrasse 20 Wuppertal 42119 Germany
2Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3000 DR Netherlands

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AbstractCompanies play a central role in the quest for sustainable development. Organizational learning theories have been utilized to explain sustainability‐related change processes in firms. However, implications from studies at the nexus of business sustainability and organizational learning are highly dependent on varying conceptualizations. The objective of this study is to provide clarity on the plurality of conceptual underpinnings in research and to uncover principles that are associated with deeper organizational change processes, that is, business transformation. Building on insights from a systematic literature review, we develop a sustainability learning typology, from which we distill three learning principles for business transformation: (1) the deutero learning mode, (2) the societal learning scope, and (3) the cooperative advantage objective. We formulate needs for future research to further elaborate on the learning principles associated with business transformation and suggest implications for practice.

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