Transformation Towards Sustainability

A Novel Interdisciplinary Framework from RWTH Aachen University
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-54702-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 471 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 815 g

The global environmental crisis, technological developments, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing economic and political globalization are just a few of the developments that are massively increasing the pressure for transformation on regions, companies and society as a whole. In addition, the digital age is accelerating transformation processes that are already underway. This contributed book addresses these developments and presents a novel framework for transformation research and practice, which has been developed and already validated at RWTH Aachen University. The RWTH way includes inter- and transdisciplinary approaches from many disciplines, looking at technological and societal change from different perspectives. A distinction is made between analysis, i.e., research on transformation processes, impact, i.e., transformational research, and change in research itself, i.e. research transformation. The book not only creates a new understanding of transformation research, but also provides actionable impulses for scholars and practitioners in many fields.
This is an open access book.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Letmathe, Peter

Lemme, Max

Roll, Christine

Leuchner, Michael

Balleer, Almut

Paegert, Maren

Böschen, Stefan

Piller, Frank T.

Breuer, Wolfgang

Seefried, Elke

Förster, Agnes

Wahlbrink, Thorsten

Gramelsberger, Gabriele

Greiff, Kathrin

Häußling, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Aachen Model for Transformation Research1. Aachen Model for Transformation Research: Overview and Implications2. Reflections on the Concept of Transformation 3. REVIERa: Transformation Platform of RWTH Aachen
II. Transformation Research1. Sustainable Finance and Green Transformation 2. Infrastructures and transformation: Between Self-commitment and Coordination of Experimental Practices 3. (Social) Transformation and Circular Economy4. Role of LCA in Transformation Processes 5. Interrelationship of Technology and Society in Transformation Processes: Case Study Textile Technologies 6. Transformation of Established Organizations 7. Labor Market Effects of Transformation Processes 
III. Transformational Research1. Future Cluster NeuroSys: Shaping the Landscape of Future Neuromorphic-Hardware 2. Excellence Clusters as Levers of Transformation3. Ecosystem Services as a Framework for Transformation of the Rhenish Mining Area 4. Humboldtn: Transformational Reseach via Insitutional Platforms 
IV. Research Transformation1. Transformation of Science 2. Transformation of Resilience Research 3. Humboldtn: Research Transformation towards Sustainability 

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Letmathe works in the fields of sustainability accounting, innovation and value chain controlling, societal transformation processes and business modeling. He studied business administration at University of Bielefeld where he graduated as Diplom-Kaufmann. He received his PhD (Environmental Cost Accounting) from University GH Essen and completed his postdoctoral stage with his habilitation on “Flexible Standardization” at Ruhr-University Bochum. Between 1993 and 2001, he worked under supervision of Prof. Dr. Marion Steven at both universities – Essen and Bochum – as research assistant in the fields of management accounting, operations management, and corporate environmental management. After completing his habilitation, he was appointed Professor of Environmental and Technology Management at University of Bayreuth. Between 2002 and 2011 he held the chair of Value Chain Management with special focus on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises at University of Siegen where he founded the SMI (Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Institute Siegen) in 2003, which he headed until September 2011. Since October 2011 he leads the Chair of Management Accounting (Lehrstuhl für Controlling) at RWTH Aachen University and was dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics from 2018 - 2021. Since 1999, he has held multiple visiting professorship at University of Colorado at Boulder and Clemson University. His practical experience includes more than two years of work in the furniture industry as well as more than 80 often interdisciplinary research projects with industry and other research institutions mainly in the fields of operations management, strategic management, management accounting, and process optimization. His interdisciplinary research comprises the mobility sector, the energy transformation, the digitization of industry and information and communication technologies. Peter Letmathe has published his research in several top journals such as the Journal of Operations Management, the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), OR Spectrum, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Contemporary Accounting Research, OMEGA, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Transportations Research: Part D, Business Strategy and the Environment, and the International Journal of Operations and Production Management.