ABSTRACT
The adoption of new sustainability-focused strategies can change the rules of engagement of the organisation and lead to very different types of decisions and outcomes. Transforming the way information is gathered and shared, decisions are made, and resources and wealth are distributed to support the new workflow will change power and authority relationships. The private firm may seek to ensure the success of its operational strategy by changing its governance system to make the environment a primary screen through which every employee makes decisions. The transformation to sustainability–becoming thoroughly responsible for environmental and socioeconomic effects—on the other hand, generally requires concurrent changes in multiple levels of an organisation: in people, culture, leadership styles, management skills, problem-solving approaches, structures, systems, technologies, materials, energy sources, products and practices. The ideal vision of sustainability adopted by the organisation is thus the basic building block for identifying performance goals.
