Resilience, Business-Policy Interaction, and Collective Agency
Advancing Sustainability and Security in Europe
- Open Access
- 2026
- Open Access
- Buch
- Verfasst von
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Eini Haaja
Eini Haaja
- Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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Anna Karhu
Anna Karhu
- Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Verlag
- Springer Nature Switzerland
Über dieses Buch
Dieses Open-Access-Buch untersucht die komplexen Dynamiken von Widerstandsfähigkeit, Nachhaltigkeit und Sicherheit in Europa und konzentriert sich dabei auf das kollektive Handeln von Politikern und Unternehmen. Angesichts der beispiellosen Herausforderungen durch Klimawandel, geopolitische Verschiebungen und wirtschaftliche Verwerfungen ist die Notwendigkeit einer kohärenten Strategie zur Förderung der Widerstandsfähigkeit wichtiger denn je. Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Analyse, wie diese Stakeholder zusammenarbeiten können, um große Herausforderungen zu bewältigen und eine nachhaltige Zukunft zu sichern. Schlüsselbegriffe wie kollektive Handlungsfähigkeit, Nachhaltigkeit und Sicherheit werden sowohl aus politischer als auch aus unternehmerischer Perspektive betrachtet. Die Autoren präsentieren einen forschungsbasierten Rahmen, der die Synergien und Konflikte zwischen diesen Sektoren aufzeigt. Durch die Synthese akademischer Diskussionen mit frischen empirischen Daten bietet das Buch praktische Empfehlungen und Werkzeuge zur Förderung von Zusammenarbeit und Resilienz. Dieses Buch ist ideal für politische Entscheidungsträger, Unternehmensführer und Wissenschaftler und dient als wichtige Ressource für das Verständnis und die Navigation in der komplexen Landschaft der Resilienzförderung. Sie spricht nicht nur die dringende Notwendigkeit einer strategischen Zusammenarbeit an, sondern liefert auch umsetzbare Erkenntnisse zur Erreichung nachhaltiger Entwicklungsziele. Egal, ob Sie praktizieren oder studieren, dieses Buch lädt Sie ein, sich mit den drängenden Fragen unserer Zeit auseinanderzusetzen und zu einem widerstandsfähigeren Europa beizutragen.
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This open access book explores the intricate dynamics of resilience, sustainability, and security in Europe, focusing on the collective agency of policymakers and businesses. As Europe faces unprecedented challenges from climate change, geopolitical shifts, and economic disruptions, the need for a cohesive strategy to advance resilience has never been more critical. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of how these stakeholders can work together to overcome grand challenges and secure a sustainable future.
Key concepts such as collective agency, sustainability, and security are examined through the lens of both policy and business perspectives. The authors present a research-based framework that highlights the synergies and conflicts between these sectors. By synthesizing academic discussions with fresh empirical data, the book offers practical recommendations and tools for fostering collaboration and resilience.
Ideal for policymakers, business leaders, and scholars, this book serves as a vital resource for understanding and navigating the complex landscape of resilience advancement. It not only addresses the urgent need for strategic collaboration but also provides actionable insights for achieving sustainable development goals. Whether you are a practitioner or an academic, this book invites you to engage with the pressing issues of our time and contribute to a more resilient Europe.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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1. Sustainability and Security Threats Calling for Collective Agency
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PDF-Version jetzt herunterladenAbstractThe opening chapter presents the current background for resilience advancement, both in the short-term regarding immediate economic and security threats, and in the long term with threats stemming from climate change, for instance. Thus, we discuss both sudden disruptions as well as long-term megatrends that currently require action from policymakers and businesses. Such developments generate grand challenges that require collective action from multiple stakeholders instead of scattered reactions. Here, we also introduce the concept of collective agency, the preconditions, elements and dynamics of which will be explored in the following chapters. -
2. The Challenges of Policymakers in Pursuing a More Sustainable and Secure Tomorrow
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PDF-Version jetzt herunterladenAbstractThis chapter presents a synthesis of the relevant sustainability- and security-related discussions in policy journals, complemented with reflections from our empirical observations. The discussed themes cover recent developments related to geopolitics, trade policy and the regulations and incentives for the green transition. Besides presenting the key academic and public discussions on resilience issues, this chapter compares and synthesises the two areas of discussion in merging sustainability, security and general resilience objectives. -
3. The Challenges of Businesses in Pursuing Sustainability and Security in Turbulent Times
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PDF-Version jetzt herunterladenAbstractThis chapter presents a synthesis of the recent sustainability- and security-related discussions in business journals, again complemented with reflections and examples from our empirical observations of selected industries. Here, we synthesise the business managers’ key challenges and dilemmas in merging customer and regulatory pressures to fight climate change and biodiversity loss and the simultaneous need to diversify supply chains and cope with protectionist moves in trade policy, again comparing the academic and practitioner discussions at the end of the chapter. -
4. The Challenges of Business–Policy Collaboration in Sustainability and Security Advancement
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PDF-Version jetzt herunterladenAbstractThis chapter merges the discussions from the previous chapters by highlighting the key challenges emerging from the literature, as well as our own observations regarding resilience advancement by different stakeholders. It also brings in the researchers’ perspective on resilience enhancement needs at the individual, organisational and societal levels, defining various areas and the current issues in need of improvement for sustainability, security and resilience enhancement, particularly in the European context. -
5. Searching for Ways to Create Resilience Through Collective Agency
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PDF-Version jetzt herunterladenAbstractThis chapter presents a research-based framework for understanding and generating collective agency. Building on prior literature on business studies and policy research, it analyses the variety of actors involved in collective agency from the perspective of policy and business studies. Besides conceptualising the emergence of collective agency for resilience enhancement, it conceptualises routes towards alternative outcomes. The research recommendations at the end of the chapter offer avenues for business and policy scholars in tackling the key knowledge gaps identified in the book and thus supporting business–policy collaboration for increased resilience. -
6. The Future of Business–Policy Collaboration in Advancing Sustainability and Security
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PDF-Version jetzt herunterladenAbstractThe final chapter concludes the discussion with a forward-looking presentation of how collective agency for resilience can be pursued among different stakeholders in Europe. We synthesise recommendations and tools to support collective agency based on the covered literature, as well as our empirical observations from business managers and policymakers. We also explore relevant ideas and working methods from other relevant fields, particularly futures studies, encouraging increasingly inter-disciplinary approaches to resilience enhancement. As a result, this chapter presents a toolbox of methods for researchers as well as for policymakers, businesses and various intermediary organisations in developing a common understanding of and new solutions for resilience.
- Titel
- Resilience, Business-Policy Interaction, and Collective Agency
- Verfasst von
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Eini Haaja
Anna Karhu
- Copyright-Jahr
- 2026
- Verlag
- Springer Nature Switzerland
- Electronic ISBN
- 978-3-032-02518-0
- Print ISBN
- 978-3-032-02517-3
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02518-0
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