Sustainable governance – setting direction and inspiring change in a city development corporation

The purpose of this paper is to explore the process leading to a situation today where corporate governance is changing into a more conscious sustainability focus. The work has gained recognition among the top politicians in Gothenburg. This is the first paper on this process at Framtiden. The overall intention is to follow the development over time, leading to a series of papers diffusing the experiences from this practical work in a corporation. The work at Framtiden is conducted as part of an action research approach aiming to develop the corporation in parallel with the development of theories on sustainable governance and change processes.

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