Managing sustainable development of companies in Russia based on the concept of spiral dynamics: a case study
As part of this study, we identified two main tasks: to consider existing concepts for managing the sustainable development of companies, especially focusing on those that directly use the spiral dynamics model and, based on practical cases of direct work in companies, to illustrate its capabilities and prospects. In the theoretical part of the study, a literature review was carried out describing the stages of analytics of a company's sustainable development; in the empirical part, a case study with the spiral dynamics methodology was used. The work presents practical cases where it was possible to substantiate the flexibility, scale, and systematic nature of the spiral dynamics methodology of different industry companies. In each case, regardless of the direction of the company’s activity, it was possible to analyze the general trajectory of the company’s development through the prism of the evolution of culture/values/behavior change, analyzes the layers of various cultural layers and management structures in the company, thereby making the transition to a new, more advanced level of management , introduce higher-level values based on the concept of spiral dynamics, increase KPI indicators within the framework of the company's sustainable development policy. Spiral dynamics provides a holistic approach that combines the study of both the classical aspects of sustainable development (economic, environmental and social aspects), and considers the culture of values, evolutionary vector, an integral system of company development with an applied program of change and transition to a new level, which allows the company to achieve harmony and balance between growth and conservation of resources. The study contributes to clarifying the interdisciplinary nature of the concept of spiral dynamics, the prospects for working with a sustainable development agenda for the company.
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Ermolaeva, Yu. V., Dzyuba, Yu. V., (2024), “Managing sustainable development of companies in Russia based on the concept of spiral dynamics: a case study”, Research Result. Sociology and Management, 10 (2), 94-116.DOI: 10.18413/2408-9338-2024-10-2-0-8.
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