This book demonstrates the need for a transformational change to the way businesses across the globe operate. What has become the standard accepted "business model" with a focus on corporate profit, shareholder wealth maximization, and GDP growth, is no longer a sustainable business model for workers, consumers, communities, society, the planet or any of its inhabitants and ecosystems."Given the socio-ecological crises facing the world today, we need to look not just atconserving the planet, but healing it, not just modifications to existing systems and institutions, but radical transformations. In this textbook, the authors provide students with critical information to help us move in this direction." Kent Walker, University of Windsor, Canada "The authorssuccinctly present the story timeline of how many businesses have become unsustainable globally and how we can systematically address the need to turn this around. They have effectively tied together philosophy, business, economics, culture and politics to set the stage for today's students' study of sustainable enterprises. Furthermore, they provide potential solutions for moving forward with a holistic approach to sustainable business systems. I have been waiting for a book like this and will look forward to using in my teachings." Claudia G. Green, Pace University, USA "By directly challenging the profit maximization orthodoxy of the existing system of 'Destructive Advanced Capitalism' and by proposing a new system for socially sustainable business, this book will force business students and faculty to engage in a conversation that envisions business as part of a new social movement for justice." Thomas Abraham, Kean University, USA
