Sustainable organizational development focuses on value creation, environmental management, environmentally friendly production systems and the formation of human capital, social responsibility is linked to transparency, dialogue with stakeholders and care for the environment and the social inclusion.
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Organizational Culture, Knowledge, Learning Organizations, and Innovation on Sustainable Organizations: Strategic Implications
José G. Vargas-Hernández (Instituto Tecnológico José Mario Molina Pasquel y Henríquez, Mexico) and Muhammad Mahboob Ali (Constitunte Institution, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7785-1.ch013
Abstract
This study aims to analyze the strategic implications that the organizational culture has on organizational knowledge, learning, and innovation. It begins from the assumption that there is a direct and positive relationship between the organizational culture and knowledge, learning, and innovation in organizations. It also is assumed that organizational culture, knowledge, learning, and innovation play a receptive to sustainable organizational practices. The method used is the appreciative inquiry as a collaborative dialogue based on the question of what is the best of and what might be that aims to design and implement innovations in sustainable organizational arrangements and processes. The theoretical framework is based on organizational cultural cognitivism theory and the theory of socio-ecological intergradation. It is concluded that sustainable organizations practices require the creation and development of an organizational culture supportive of knowledge, learning, and innovation practices.