Compassionate Organizations in BANI times - Achieving SDGs Through Business and Communities Connect

This book captures the research and best practices of organizational responsibility towards employment generation and well-being issues, as well as ways to explore sustainable and responsible business solutions to address the current uncertain times. It offers a balanced blend of theory and documentation of real-life cases on these topics, with a shared vision of a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world. The insights offered in its chapters showcase the refinement, redevelopment, and reassessment of corporate strategies and public policy to incorporate sustainability, ESG, and SDG principles alongside business agendas. The book is valuable for implementing sustainable and ethical governance among policymakers, who can use the knowledge to create future compliance and non-compliance mechanisms for businesses. It also discusses emerging areas of green innovation and technology adoption, which can be utilized by policymakers, businesses, and academia alike to drive future green innovation strategies and ventures.
The book offers sector-specific insights, including agriculture, banking, renewable energy, etc., that can be used to create targeted initiatives to address specific challenges. The chapters broadly cover three categories of research. Category 1 BANI Times and the Need for Compassion and Care (BANI being brittle, anxious, non-linear, and incomprehensible); Category 2 Businesses: Frameworks, Cases, and Models; and Category 3 Communities: Frameworks, Cases, and Models. The book serves as a guide for fostering a culture of sustainability, highlighting its multi-layered and colossal role in the development agenda and overall ethical decision-making.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction - Why Compassion and Equity are critical for Organizations - A Hopeful Discourse in Disruptive Times.- Chapter 2: BANI World or Neoliberal Dystopia: A Political Economic Critique.- Chapter 3: Addressing Inequalities Through a Pluriverse of Alternatives: 3 Case Studies from India.- Chapter 4: Women s Empowerment and Social Change: The case of Mauna Dhwani Foundation in Mayurbhanj, Odisha.- Chapter 5: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Nature Tourism.- Chapter 6: New Motherhood versus Career Conflict During Re-entry Transitions in IT Sector in India.- Chapter 7: Invisible Boundaries: Exploring the Relationship Between Workplace Loneliness and its Influence on Environmental Behaviours in India. Chapter 8: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: Can it be Avoided Anymore?.- Chapter 9: Decarbonizing India's Economy by 2070: Navigating Challenges in the Context of Climate Change & A Case Study on Decarbonising Karma Lakelands.- Chapter 10: Harnessing Eco-Innovation for Sustainable Development: A Critical Review and Research Agenda.- Chapter 11: Sensemaking in the Age of AI: Compassionate Leadership Framework for Navigating Algorithmic Bias.- Chapter 12: Non-Cognitive Competencies and Holistic Creative Reflection Skills as Genuine Human Approaches to Compassionate Leadership in Times of BANI and AI.- Chapter 13: Relevance of Spirituality to AI Ethics in BANI times.- Chapter 14: Scaling Impact: Alternative Routes for Growth-Agnostic Sustainable Businesses.

About the author

Tanuja Sharma
is Professor in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource area at Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon, and leads the Centre for Ethics, ESG and Responsible Organisations (CERO@MDI Gurgaon). Her research work is embedded in positive psychology, and she has supervised research on performance management effectiveness, Happiness@work, Dignity@work, gender issues, and social capital. She has won multiple awards, including the MERCER Asia Award for Most Innovative Research for her PhD work from FMS, Delhi University, the Most Cited Paper award (Emerald Publishing), the Best Mentored Cases Award from the Western Casewriters Association (WCA) and best paper in track (OB ) in Academy of Management (83 rd AOM) Boston . US .A Springer author, she has contributed chapters to Springer books and has co-edited a book titled Responsible Leadership for Sustainability in Uncertain Times: Social, Economic and Environmental Challenges for Sustainable Organizations (2021).

Jayati Talapatra
 works in the area of climate change, biodiversity and resource management. She is a Visiting Faculty at Nalanda University, TERI school of Advanced studies, and other business schools in India and Europe. She has been publishing with Springer Nature and her last book is called ‘Emerging economic models for sustainable business’. She conducts Nature immersion walks to generate awareness and accountability for biodiversity and climate change, under the name ‘Dilli Meri Jaan Walks’. As a sustainability consultant, she works with micro enterprises in starting their ESG journeys. In addition to that, she conducts ESG workshops for corporates through ‘All India Management Association’ and independently. Her work on Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change and Disaster resilience in the face of extreme weather events, has helped firms create Net-Zero plans keeping nature and well-being of all species in the centre. 

Suat Taşkesen
is a lecturer who publishes theoretical and applied works with special expertise in political science and political economy. He has over five years of experience at Turkish universities, teaching local, regional, and global political and administrative issues. He possesses an in-depth knowledge of historical capitalism, including its peculiar rules and institutions. Furthermore, he studies the political behavior of individuals in modern societies by analyzing the key concept of the politics of belonging. His main research areas include historical capitalism, neoliberalism and its world order, hegemonic transitions, nations and nation-states, the politics of belonging, social exclusion, migration, and more.

Summary

This book captures the research and best practices of organizational responsibility towards employment generation and well-being issues, as well as ways to explore sustainable and responsible business solutions to address the current uncertain times. It offers a balanced blend of theory and documentation of real-life cases on these topics, with a shared vision of a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world. The insights offered in its chapters showcase the refinement, redevelopment, and reassessment of corporate strategies and public policy to incorporate sustainability, ESG, and SDG principles alongside business agendas. The book is valuable for implementing sustainable and ethical governance among policymakers, who can use the knowledge to create future compliance and non-compliance mechanisms for businesses. It also discusses emerging areas of green innovation and technology adoption, which can be utilized by policymakers, businesses, and academia alike to drive future green innovation strategies and ventures.
The book offers sector-specific insights, including agriculture, banking, renewable energy, etc., that can be used to create targeted initiatives to address specific challenges. The chapters broadly cover three categories of research. Category 1—BANI Times and the Need for Compassion and Care (BANI being brittle, anxious, non-linear, and incomprehensible); Category 2—Businesses: Frameworks, Cases, and Models; and Category 3—Communities: Frameworks, Cases, and Models. The book serves as a guide for fostering a culture of sustainability, highlighting its multi-layered and colossal role in the development agenda and overall ethical decision-making.

Product details

• Assisted by: Tanuja Sharma (Editor), Jayati Talapatra (Editor), Suat Taskesen (Editor), Suat Taşkesen (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 25.03.2026
• EAN: 9789819559282
• ISBN: 978-981-9559-28-2
• No. of pages: 314
• Illustrations: VI, 314 p.
• Series: Responsible Leadership and Sustainable Management
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Soziologie, Unternehmen und Umwelt, Grüne Unternehmensansätze, Sustainability, Strategisches Management, Wirtschaftsmathematik und -informatik, IT-Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Well-Being, Wohlfahrtsökonomie, Business Process Management, Business Ethics, ESG, Business Strategy and Leadership, Corporate Environmental Management, Social Choice and Welfare, Green Innovation, Compassionate Economy, AI and Ethics in Business, AI and Innovation, Decarbonising