Includes bibliographical references and index.

Leading sustainable change: an introduction / Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman -- Making the business case for environmental sustainability / Rebecca Henderson -- Stumbling towards sustainability: why organizational learning and radical innovation are necessary to build a more sustainable world-but not sufficient / John Sterman -- From periphery to core: a process model for embracing sustainability / Luciana Silvestri and Ranjay Gulati -- How purpose-based companies master change for sustainability: a systemic approach to global social change / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- Staying the same while changing: organizational identity in the face of environmental challenges / Mary Ann Glynn, Christi Lockwood, and Ryan Raffaelli -- Two tales of one city: Samsung, Daewoo, and lessons on large-scale transformation / Donald Sull -- Chief sustainability officers: who are they and what do they do? / Kathleen Miller Perkins and George Serafeim -- Two roads to green: a tale of bureaucratic versus distributed leadership models of change / Deborah Ancona, Elaine Backman, and Kate Isaacs -- Leading proactive punctuated change / Michael Tushman, Charles A. O'Reilly, and Bruce Harreld -- The role of multiplier firms and megaprojects in leading change for sustainability / Amy C. Edmondson, Martine Haas, John Macomber, and Tiona Zuzul -- Managing shifting goal consensus and task ambiguity in making the transition to sustainability / Alfred A. Marcus and Andrew H. Van de Ven -- Sustainability and organizational change: an institutional perspective / Royston Greenwood, P. Devereaux Jennings, and Bob Hinings.