Abstract
The rapid global development is mostly economically driven and made up of complex country-specific problems. Although sustainable development (SD) is a well established concept and an urgent global challenge, differing levels of progress had been made in organisations, communities and countries. To facilitate consistency of understanding, the authors accept the definition of ‘sustainable development’ as including the economic, social and environmental dimensions. Furthermore, they argue that these dimensions are not functioning as separate silos but are interdependent and grounded in legislated governance frameworks from where co-operative governance (COG) realizes as an option to facilitate an integrated approach. The article discusses the challenges in the facilitation of COG and suggests practical guidelines for implementation to facilitate improved integration.Keywords:Sustainable development, governance, co-operative governance, integrated,organising, and communication. Disciplines:Public Administration, Public Management, Social Welfare, Environmental Management, Municipal public service delivery, Social Development, Organisational Behaviour, Co-operative Governance, Communication, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Organisational Development
Highlights
The current rapid world-wide development is mostly driven by economic development and made up of a range of complex problems unique to each country
sustainable development (SD) originated in relation to explicitly green issues, but has evolved to reflect a process that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
Of significance to the aforementioned objectives of co-operative governance (COG) is the existence of effective organisational arrangements of which two-way communication is first and foremost
Summary
Curtin Graduate School of Business (CGSB), Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western. Based on the shift in thinking and assigned responsibility, both managers and public policy-makers are trying to manage sustainability more effectively but face a complex range of difficult challenges These challenges include the more than 90 definitions of sustainable development (Becker, 2010), concepts which are very broad and there seems to be a lack of applicable, tested and validated comprehensive frameworks and/or models, with applicable and effective guidelines for implementation (Jabbour & Santos 2008). To analyse sustainable development and COG dimensions and to identify potential challenges for managers in implementing effective sustainable development strategies and activities within a COG context. Practical guidelines for the implementation of more effective COG to facilitate sustainable development, are proposed
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