Appreciative Inquiry has touched and affected the life of thousands who apply its principles in a wide range of settings including industry, government, spiritual and not-for-profit organizations. "The Advances in Appreciative Inquiry" series advocates an organizational science that focuses on advancing a scholarship of positive human organizations, positive relationships and positive modalities of change, which promise to be of world benefit for individuals, organizations and communities. The book series is dedicated to building such a discipline through the advancement of Appreciative...

Contributors Include: Nancy J. Adler - Michel Avital - Birgitta Bergvall-K reborn - Cecile G. Betit - Richard J. Boland - Dong-Sung Cho - Fred Collopy - David L. Cooperrider - Jurgen Faust - Michael Feinson - Marita Holst - Wendy Jansen - Julie E. Kendall - Kenneth E. Kendall - Chris Laszlo - Bernard J. Mohr - Eric H. Neilsen - Malcolm J. Odell, Jr. - Will Rifkin - Nancy Shendell-Falik - Anna St hlbr st - Rombout van den Nieuwenhof - Diana Whitney - Danielle P. Zandee - Ping Zhang

Appreciative Inquiry has touched and inspired the work of thousands who apply its development principles in a wide range of settings including industry, government, spiritual and not-for-profit organizations. The Advances in Appreciative Inquiry series facilitates an emergent dialogue within the social sciences and supports innovative and challenging scholarly work. It is dedicated to the advancement of Appreciative Inquiry as an approach to organizational and human development, and as an interdisciplinary, non-deficit theory of positive change processes in human systems. Guided by the ethos...

This volume is focused on sustainable value which has become a widespread aspiration in all walks of life. By taking a generative approach and by building on positive design principles inherent in the appreciative inquiry methodology, it proposes moving from sustainable development to sustainable value. Chapters focus on three thematic areas for sustainable value: positive design, appreciative intelligence and social innovation, and social entrepreneurship. Contributions respond to questions such as: How can the design approach help enhance the sustainable value over profit value? And what...