Innovation Ecosystems: A Sustainability Perspective

Advancing Sustainability Through Change and Innovation: A Co- evolutionary Perspective

This article addresses the problem of how change and innovation can create a fuller voice for ecological interests in organizations and public policy, raising issues about change mechanisms at the institutional versus organizational level. First, it suggests that the newer, systems-based and inclusive approaches to organizational development practice and theory may overcome shortcomings of earl...

Parasites, ecosystems and sustainability: an ecological and complex systems perspective.

Host-parasite relationships can be conceptualised either narrowly, where the parasite is metabolically dependent on the host, or more broadly, as suggested by an ecological-evolutionary and complex systems perspective. In this view Host-parasite relationships are part of a larger set of ecological and co-evolutionary interdependencies and a complex adaptive system. These interdependencies affec...

Ecosystems, Sustainability, and Grassland Management

The long-term sustainability of modern agriculture is examined in an ecological context. As an aid to defining agriculture, animal agriculture, and sustainable agriculture, a broad overview of the structural and functional aspects of ecosystems is presented. The longterm sustainability of two corn production systems and four beef cattle production systems is then examined relative to energy out...

Sustainability - Oriented Innovation

The Thrill and the Agony of Digital Ecosystems: A Complementor ́s Perspective on Co-Innovation Risk