Sustainable Business Change (eBook)

This volume aims to explore project management contributions to sustainable business change based on renewability, reuse, and repair as well as the effect of circular economy business solutions on project management in terms of the management approach, governance, and leadership. The main aim of integrating project management with a circular business paradigm is not only to learn how project management can contribute to achieving circular economy principles, but also to understand the impact of business needs on project management. By understanding these needs, recommendations can be developed and promoted among different stakeholders such as governments, financial institutions, and education institutions with the goal of supporting and assisting project management to drive sustainable business change. This approach will enable readers to assess how project management professions can support a shift toward sustainable business. The primary audience of this work is management scholars, educators, researchers, and students. Scholars, government representatives, financial institutions, management educators, start-up companies, innovative entrepreneurs, and all others who use the circular economy to support sustainable development can also find much of use in this book.

Dr. Vladimir Obradovic is an experienced professional in project and change management, and president of IPMA Serbia.  He is a professor and Head of Department for Interdisciplinary Research in Management at Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade University, and visiting professor at several Universities. 

In his teaching and research work, he has achieved substantial results: over 200 papers published in national and international congresses and journals (more than 20 of them are indexed in Web of Science) as well as more than 20 books and chapters. He has delivered numerous keynote and invited speeches. He has been chair or the member of various programme and scientific committees.

Vladimir has a vast experience in scientific work and he is editor-in-chief of the European Project Management Journal, international editorial board member of the International Project Management Journal, and editorial board member of journals Project Leadership and Society, and Information Technologies and Learning Tools.