Transformation of Business Organization Towards Sustainability

Jurgis Kazimieras STANIŠKIS– full member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, professor – emeritus at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, member of the United Nations Independent Group of Scientists for Global Sustainable Development Reporting.J. K. Staniškis deals with the development of methods and tools based on systems theory for sustainable economy and sustainable industrial development, for instance, resource-efficient and cleaner production, systems for incremental preventive innovations generation, financing and implementation, and systems for transformations of global development towards sustainability. He is a manager and the main expert for more than 80 scientific and implementation international and national projects, establisher of the new transdisciplinary MSc programme “Cleaner production and environmental management” and PhD programme “Environmental engineering”.As an UNIDO/UNEP/OECD expert on unsustainability reduction in companies, J.K. Staniškis participated in the projects/missions in Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Vietnam, China, Russia, Ukraine, Macedonia, Albania, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, etc. As a member of the UN Independent Group of Scientists, is one of the authors of the Global Sustainable Development Report 2019: “The Future is Now – Science for Achieving Sustainable Development”.He is the recipient of the following awards: National Science Awards (1979, 1988, 2004), His Excellence the President Dr. Valdas Adamkus Award (2005), the Baltic Sea Award (2010), the Cross of Officer of the Order for Merits to Lithuania (2009).Eglė Staniškienė, a professor at the Sustainable Management Research Group, School of Economics and Business, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, PhD in Social Sciences. Research interests include sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, responsible consumption and sustainable production, employee well-being, quality system management and interdisciplinary research. Currently, E. Staniškienė is a member of the expert council of the Lithuanian Responsible Business Association (LAVA). She has published more than 60 scientific publications, participated in more than 20 national and international projects. E. Staniškienė is an expert of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), a KTU representative in the international COPERNICUS alliance, a member of European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS), Academy of Management (AOM), and a European Member of the Academy of Management (EURAM). She uses and develops her scientific competence in the study process and in cooperation with business and public sector organisations. E. Staniškienė teaches the modules of Sustainable Development, Quality Management, Quality and Sustainable Development Management, Circular Economy and others.ŽivilėStankevičiūtė, PhD in Management, is an Associated Professor at the Sustainable Management Research Group, School of Economics and Business, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Her doctoral dissertation on Sustainable Human Resource Management has been recognised internationally: she received the Baltic University Programme Annual Award for the Best PhD defended in 2015. Her research interests include Sustainable Human Resource Management, Employee Well-being, Digital Transformations, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Sustainable Development. Ž. Stankevičiūtė is a member of the National Expert Council for sustainable development goals at the Lithuanian Responsible Business Association. Lecturing includes courses on Sustainable Development, Employee Performance Management, and Human Analytics.Asta Daunorienė is an Associated Professor of Quality and Value Chain Management at Kaunas University School of Economics and Business, and a senior researcher at the Sustainable Management Research Group at School of Economics and Business, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Asta has completed her PhD in the field of Economics at Kaunas University of Technology. Her research interest lies in the area of quality management, sustainable value and supply chain management and new business models’ development. She has actively collaborated with researchers in other disciplines of pedagogy and information technology. Asta currently serves on the ECIU learning and teaching expert group. A. Daunorienė has been involved in the expert activities in Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, contributing her skills to the strategy development for teachers’ professional development and study quality improvement. She has comprehensive experience in quality management systems consulting.Joana Ramanauskaitė is a PhD candidate at the Sustainable Management Research Group at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. She is interested in corporate sustainability, sustainable transitions and their tensions. She is also a member of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN). Joana teaches the courses of Sustainable Development and Quality Management. She has been participating in the development of the interdisciplinary course of Sustainable Development for first-year bachelor students at KTU since 2019.

• Application of the systems theory for the development of measures driving business organizations towards sustainability.- Sustainability challenges in an business organization.- Reduction of unsustainability of enterprises.- Socio-environmental-economic transformations towards sustainable development.- Obstacles and drivers to transition of organization towards sustainability.- Theoretical insights on organizational transitions towards CSR.- Empirical insights on obstacles and drivers of CSR-committed organisations to sustainability transitions.