Recent Blogs and Web Postings

Recent Papers

Achieving Sustainability Requires Systemic Business Transformation. Global Sustainability, April 24, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1017/sus2020.9.

Thinking Transformational Change. Journal of Change Management, online first, 2020. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2020.1737179.Achieving Sustainability Requires Systemic Business Transformation. Global Sustainability, April 24, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1017/sus2020.9.\

Thinking Transformational Change. Journal of Change Management, online first, 2020. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2020.1737179.

Transformation: How to Spur Radical Change by Sandra Waddock, Steve Waddell, Bruce Goldstein, Björn Ola-Linnér, Niko Schäpke and Coleen Vogel. In Our Future on Earth, Future Earth, 2020, 82-89.

Stewarding Aliveness in a Troubled Earth System. Petra Kuenkel and Sandra Waddock, Cadmus: Promoting Leadership in Thought that Leads to Action, 4(1): https://www.cadmusjournal.org/article/volume-4/issue-1/stewarding-aliveness-troubled-earth-system

Narrative, Memes, and the Prospect of Large Systems Change" in Humanistic Management Journal. A read-only version is at: https://rdcu.be/1idh. Enjoy!

Blogs and Web Presence

Narratives, Stories and Memes, Guest Post, Evaluation for Development, June 13, 2020, https://transformationsforum.net/help-find-the-attractors-that-can-build-a-better-future/.

Help Find the Attractors that Can Build a Better Future, Simon Divecha and Sandra Waddock, SDG Transformations Forum, May 5, 2020

Thinking about System Transformation as a Shaman Might, SDG Transformations Forum, April 30, 2020

'There's a Crack in Everything. That's Where the Light Gets In' by Sandra Waddock (quoting Leonard Cohen's masterpiece Anthem), Covid-19 Shared Forum, April 7, 2020.

Transformations2019: A Narrative Perspective

Poem: Think! Are You Thinking by Sandra Waddock, Santiago and the World, October 2019

6 Strategies for Stabilizing the Planet. Petra Kuenkel and Sandra Waddock. September 16, 2019, Network for Business Sustainability.

What is a Good Theory? Key to Responsible Research. Anne Tsui and Sandra Waddock, Responsible Research in Business and Management, November 5, 2018, https://www.rrbm.network/what-is-a-good-theory-key-to-responsible-research/.

Memes, Messages, and Change. July 10, 2018, Manila Times, http://www.manilatimes.net/memes-messages-and-change/417863/.

Memes and Messaging for Transformation. SDG Transformation Forum, May 30, 2018, https://www.transformationsforum.net/memes-and-messaging-for-transformation/. Also posted, May 31, 2018, at: http://humanisticmanagement.international/memes-and-messaging-for-transformation/.

An Interview with Sandra Waddock: Sacredness and Intellectual Shamanism. Sandra Waddock, Kathryn Pavlovich, and Eleftheria Egel. Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion, 15(4), 368-375, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14766086.2018.1472033, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14766086.2018.1472033.

Changing the Growth Meme: A Core Challenge to System Transformation. SDG Transformation Forum, February 13, 2018, https://www.transformationsforum.net/changing-the-growth-meme-a-core-challenge-to-system-transformation/.

Neoliberalism's Failure Means We Need a New Narrative to Guide Global Economy. The Conversation, December 6, 2016.

Commentary on Journey to Earthland: The Great Transition to Planetary Civilization by Paul Raskin, Great Transition Initiative, http://www.greattransition.org/publication/jte-reflections-waddock, November 2016.

Commentary on ‘The Church of Economism and Its Discontents’ (by Richard Norgaard), Great Transition Initiative, Bulletin, December 2015, http://www.greattransition.org/publication/the-church-of-economism-and-its-discontents, December 18, 2015.

Memes and Large System change, Greenleaf Publishing, Posted, July 9, 2015, https://greenleafpublishing.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/memes-and-large-system-change/.

Intellectual Shamans: Management Academics Making a Difference. Boston College Libraries Faculty Publication Highlights, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8EMxEhzagE and http://www.bc.edu/sites/libraries/facpub//waddock-intellectual/, published July 2015.

Complexity, Collapse and Large Systems Change, Greenleaf Publishing, https://greenleafpublishing.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/complexity-collapse-and-large-systems-change/, posted June 25, 2015. Reposted in The Source (Cabell’s), at http://www.multibriefs.com/briefs/cb-cabell/complexity.pdf, July 2, 2015.

Reflections on Inspiration: Sandra Waddock, by Michelle Heyn, January 12, 2015, Organizations and the Natural Environment Newsletter, March 2015, http://one.aom.org/news/newsupdate/20.

Shamans in Our Modern World, Fifteen Eightfour, Academic Perspectives from Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2015/01/shamans-in-our-modern-world/, posted January 7, 2015.

Changing the Meme of Constant Growth. Network for Business Sustainability. http://nbs.net/changing-the-meme-of-constant-growth, August 13, 2014. Reposted on Sustainable-Economy.org, http://www.the-sustainable-economy.org/changing_the_meme_of_constant_growth, September 10, 2014.

It Does Not Take a Visionary to Change the World: Stumbling into Difference Making. Network for Business Sustainability, posted February 3, 2014, http://nbs.net/it-does-not-take-a-visionary-to-change-the-world-stumbling-into-difference-making/. Reposted on the Sustainable Economy Project, March 4, 2014, http://sustainableeconomyproject.nationbuilder.com/it_does_not_take_a_visionary_to_change_the_world_stumbling_into_difference_making.