ABSTRACT
The concept of sustainability and most of the writings on sustainable development tend to conjure up environmental sustainability. Those who argue that the industrialized state, whether developed or developing, is unsustainable emphasize a number of sustainability challenges. In addition to the environment, work and the workplace are essential elements of industrial and industrializing economies. Sustainability in products, processes, and services has been increasingly emphasized by placing the environment at the center of some industrial transformations or on a par with competitiveness. Globalization affects four major areas important for sustainable development: the production of goods and services, the mobility of knowledge and information, financial capital mobility, and the international movement of labor and human resources, and migration. Globalization raises new challenges for governance, vis-a-vis the roles of government, workers, and citizens in the new economic order. The kind of innovation likely to be managed successfully by industrial corporations is relevant to the differences between current and sustainable technology agendas.
