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Emerald is pleased to announce the publication of Advances in Appreciative Inquiry volume 3, Positive Design and Appreciative Construction: From Sustainable Development to Sustainable Value, edited by Tojo Thatchenkery, David Cooperrider and Michel Avital.

ISBN: 9780857243690, eISBN 9780857243706

Brief synopsis of this volume:

Appreciative Inquiry has touched and inspired the work of thousands who apply its development principles in a wide range of settings including industry, government, spiritual and not-for-profit organizations.

The Advances in Appreciative Inquiry series advocates a science of positive human organizations, positive relationships and positive modalities of change, in order to create world benefit for individuals, organizations and communities. The book series is dedicated to the advancement of Appreciative Inquiry as an approach to organizational and human development, and as an interdisciplinary, non-deficit theory of positive change processes in human systems. Guided by the ethos of Appreciative Inquiry, the book series supports an ongoing, distributed inquiry into the true, the good, the better and the possible. It is dedicated to advancing a "scholarship of the positive" and "positive scholarship."

The book series facilitates an emergent dialogue within the social sciences and supports innovative and challenging scholarly work. The third volume, Positive Design and Appreciative Construction: From Sustainable Development to Sustainable Value, revolves around four fundamental perspectives on sustainable value, namely: organizational and strategic perspectives, positive design perspectives, appreciative intelligence perspectives, and social entrepreneurship perspectives.

This title is available as part of Emerald's Business, Management and Economics eBooks Series Collection, and can be purchased from the Emerald bookstore and other online retailers.

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