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Business Unsustainability and Early Warning Systems

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Introduction

The world is becoming increasingly interconnected and complex. It is now common to speak of events influenced by the “butterfly effect,” in which organizations and institutions suffer the effects of apparently distant and unrelated actions of others. This represents a very serious problem for the survival of organizations and business sustainability, since it is possible that there are threats to their integrity that are unknown or that, while known, are not considered. The task of managing a modern organization is very complex with drastic potential effects, which probably requires a change in how organizations are being managed.

This chapter outlines the elements and concepts that create business unsustainability. First, a discussion is presented to define business sustainability. Business sustainability is an ambiguous, yet widely discussed, concept in recent decades intended to embed sustainability into business management. In the second section, the concept of...

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  1. WSB University in Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

    Johannes Platje

  2. Graduate Sustainability Program, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

    David Slim Zepeda Quintana

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Platje, J., Quintana, D.S.Z. (2019). Business Unsustainability and Early Warning Systems. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63951-2_263-1

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