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Societal challenges have grown continuously over the last few decades. Today we already count more than seven billion Earth-dwellers (Handelsblatt 2011), and in many parts of the world we are facing dynamic leaps in development. We are living in times of change. The still difficult economic environment in Europe is now showing to many what has already been known for a long time: we need new management approaches and economic innovations to stay fit for the future in this dynamic environment.
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Weidinger, C. (2014). Business Success Through Sustainability. In: Weidinger, C., Fischler, F., Schmidpeter, R. (eds) Sustainable Entrepreneurship. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38753-1_26
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