“What would management look like if … we took planetary boundaries into account at the start, and took sustainability as an essential value for managers?”

• A comprehensive, peer-reviewed management textbook covering all standard content areas
• Systematically integrates three approaches to management (Financial Bottom Line, Triple Bottom Line, Social and Ecological Thought)
• Written with a global perspective by an international team of seven co-authors
• Each chapter contains entrepreneurship-specific content
• Used by thousands of students around that world and endorsed by leading management scholars

What scholars are saying:

What would management look like if we did not start from the assumption that businesses exist exclusively to create profit? If we took planetary boundaries into account at the start, and took sustainability as an essential value for managers? This text provides a lively and engaging vision, filled with up-to-date examples of enterprises that focus on the financial bottom line, or the triple bottom line, or enhancing social and ecological well-being. In a world where business is the default college major, this text is a welcome alternative to help create more ecologically and socially sustainable enterprises of the future.

Jerry Davis, Gilbert & Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration, Ross School of Business; co-founder of Responsible Research in Business and Management, and former editor of Administrative Science Quarterly

In an age where short-termism among executives and threats to the natural environment are growing in parallel, it is heartening to discover an incisive, important, and timely text that can help the managers of tomorrow battle those trends. We are honored to give this book our very strongest endorsement.

Danny Miller & Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, HEC Montreal, University of Montreal

This is a unique textbook that pulls students into the 21st century. It is unlike most management texts in that students get to view issues from multiple lenses and theoretical perspectives–a major advantage over other management textbooks. In addition, the emphasis on entrepreneurship takes seriously the notion that we are entering an era when creating jobs and finding previously unexplored opportunities for professional contributions is the key to success. This book gets it right.​

Kim Cameron, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Reviewer endorsements for the fully revised, second edition:

This textbook uniquely integrates financial, social, and ecological well-being using FBL, TBL, and SET frameworks across all management functions. It prepares BBA students to lead for a sustainable world. An essential, open-access resource for modern management education.

Marcio Coelho, Providence University College

This groundbreaking book on innovation management offers a compelling exploration of how financial, social, and ecological well-being can be aligned for sustainable success. Through the lens of FBL, TBL, and SET perspectives, it presents striking cases and powerful data that challenge conventional thinking. The book vividly illustrates the pathways businesses must take if we are to thrive within our planetary boundaries and demonstrates that innovation is not only possible, but essential, for shaping a resilient future.

Dr. Lisa Fröhlich, Founder of ispira Think Tank for Sustainable Supply Chains, UNGC PRME Advisory Board Member, PRME Chapter DACH Chair, and AOM MED Ambassador Chair

The book provides practical, evidence-based answers to the pressing problems and promising possibilities that contemporary classrooms provide for learning management courses. For educators at all levels, this is more than simply a theoretical tome; it’s a toolkit for improving student learning and professional practice. Teachers are given the tools to create a classroom that is more welcoming and adaptable to students’ needs by incorporating new ideas and different points of view. Ultimately, this book is a must-have for educators who are serious about improving student learning and incorporating sustainable practices into their classrooms.

Allan A. Lalosa, Eastern Samar State University, Borongan City, Philippines

It is a very innovative textbook in management. It presents the three main paradigms (Financial Bottom Line, Triple Bottom Line, and Social and Ecological Thought) in an engaging way. It contributes to redefining management for fitting in the reality of the Anthropocene era in which we live now.

Laszlo Zsolnai, Corvinus University of Budapest

This book challenges students to see management as a social construction, one that can, and must, evolve. It raises a critical question: What is the social purpose of management? Can organizational management ever be neutral, or is it always influencing society in one direction or another? The book argues that management has a profound impact on how people live and work together and that current systems are failing both people and the planet. By offering alternative models, it shows how management can serve a higher purpose: enabling organizations to contribute to a just, sustainable, and thriving world. Every student should be exposed to this essential rethinking of management.

Coro Strandberg, President, Strandberg Consulting

This is an important new textbook. The authors have done a good job introducing students to many of the standard ways of thinking about management (rightfully challenging them) while offering an alternative (Social and Ecological Thought) that most students should find appealing and possibly empowering. Yes, it really is possible to manage organizations in ways that actually take people and planet seriously, rather than as window dressing, and this book lays out ways that aspiring managers can do that.

Kelly Dueck, Canadian Mennonite University