Publications at CSI - page 3
"Deep" Knowledge Management and Sustainability
A white paper that argues for the beneficial impact that deliberately managing corporate (epistemological) values can have on sustainability practices and outcomes. Based, in part, on the Deep Ecology movement and its connections to collective learning and innovation.
A paper published in 2002 which introduced the concept of social innovation capital, a form of social capital vital to the survival and sustainability of an organization, and which accounts for a company’s basic capacity to learn, innovate, and solve problems, but only when healthy in form.
The Concept of Sustainability and Sustainable Innovation
This presentation was given by one of CSI’s board members, Prof. Rene Jorna, at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, in December 2004. Its full title is ‘The Concept of Sustainability and Sustainable Innovation: An attempt to reconceptualize.’
The Sustainability of “Sustainability”
This is a hugely important paper co-written by one of CSI’s board members, Prof. Rene Jorna of the University of Groningen, and his co-authors, Niels Faber and Jo Van Engelen. Together, they chronicle the evolution of the term “sustainability” since it first started to appear in the 1960s, and conclude that knowledge and innovation will be key drivers of social and corporate sustainability in the years ahead.
A description of a tool for measuring the ecological sustainability of an organization's water use. Includes discussion of advantages over other tools. Utilizes CSI's quotients-based system for measuring and reporting corporate sustainability performance.
The Corporate Sustainability Management (CSM) Cycle
A brief summary of the context-based approach to CSM, intended for use by corporate sustainability managers interested in understanding what the basic CSM process is, and how the use of full-quotient metrics fit into it.
An introduction to the world's first full-quotient, context-based Triple Bottom Line sustainability index. A straw man implementation of what the Global Reporting Initiative refers to as metrics with 'sustainability context' fully included.
