Please come and celebrate with us the 2023 issue of the paperback edition of the book Leadership for Sustainability: An Action Research Approach.
The event
Introductions
Judi, Gill and Peter – why we put the Leadership for Sustainability book (L4S) together for publication in 2011 and brief reflections
Fishbowl discussion amongst people who contributed stories to L4S – around the question:
What have you found and learnt about seeking to act for change in the 12+ years since you wrote your original contribution to the book?
Small group discussions
Whole group discussion and review
Originally published in 2011, the book was edited by Judi Marshall, Gill Coleman and Peter Reason. This seminal text contains an accessible and clear introduction to the principles and practice of action research and also includes fascinating stories of seeking to make the world more environmentally sustainable and socially just from 30 graduates of the University of Bath School of Management’s MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice.
Leadership for Sustainability: An Action Research Approach Presents the stories of 30 people who are seeking to make the world more environmentally sustainable and socially just. Focuses on what it means to take up leadership for sustainability, from a variety of organisational and social positions, and considers the consequences of different strategies and practices for influencing change. Shows what an action research based practice of leadership for sustainability looks like and provides a sense of the personal and professional contributions and challenges this involves.
The book
Get your own copy of the book
The webpage to buy Leadership for Sustainability: An Action Research Approach is:
They currently have an End of Year Sale with 20% off all books and ebooks. That makes the paperback £31.19.
Thereafter ASP/RBP have a new discount code, “EFL04“, for a 20% discount – valid from 1st January until 31st March 2024.
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Leadership for Sustainability: An Action Research Approach
Routledge. 1st edition 2011
Available in Paperback (from 2023); eBook & Hardback
ABOUT THE BOOK
Those who advocate moving towards sustainability debate how change can be achieved. Does it have necessarily to be top-down or can it also be bottom-up? Can radical organisational and social change be spread from ‘the middle’? Who can lead change when those with seniority and credibility are necessarily embedded in currently dominant mind-sets and power structures?
This book focuses on what it means to take up leadership for sustainability, from a variety of organisational and social positions, and considers the consequences of different strategies and practices for influencing change.
Leadership for Sustainability shows what an action research based practice of leadership for sustainability looks like and provides a sense of the personal and professional challenges this involves; it demonstrates how people who are influencing change draw on reflective practice strategically (to create a context in which they can be influential) and also tactically (in moment-to-moment choices about how to act). It also illustrates and reflects on the kinds of outcomes that can be expected from this work, both the specific and strategic achievements, and the difficulties, challenges and disappointments. Thus the major part of this volume consists of accounts by 30 graduates of an innovative Master’s programme, the MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice (at the University of Bath School of Management, UK) of their activities, projects, achievements and learning. The examples in this book show how people in very different contexts – ranging from fast moving consumer goods to international forestry and conservation projects -have seized the opportunities open to them and acted with courage and initiative to make a difference.
Accompanying sections from the editors overview, analyse and reflect on these accounts and the issues they raise for notions of leadership, practice, sustainability and change.
One substantial chapter offers ideas, frameworks and practices for people adopting an action research approach to taking leadership for sustainability.