The Sustainability Syndicate: Shared Responsibility in a Trans-organizational Business Model

• Main Author: SESHADRI, Sudhi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Business model; Trans-organizational structure; Sustainability; Syndicate; Stakeholder responsibility; Plural governance; Marketing; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3521; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4524/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper proposes design principles for the ‘sustainability syndicate’: shared responsibility among diverse stakeholders for sustainability; an agenda for unifying economic and ethical rationales; and plural governance based primarily on markets, contracts and collaborative relationships. The pape...