REPORTS & PAPERS


2021 Reports 

AN INVESTIGATION INTO FINANCING TRANSFORMATION


Bounce Beyond, in partnership with Catalyst 2030 and Cattail Strategy, looked at what's happening in financing transformation and came up with surprising findings. Lead author is Bounce Beyond Lead Steward, Steve Waddell.


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TRANSFORMATION CATALYSTS: Weaving Transformational Change for a Flourishing World for All


Bounce Beyond Stewards Sandra Waddock and Steve Waddell lay out the emerging roles of new entities here called Transformation Catalysts (TCs).




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WELLBEING ECONOMICS NARRATIVES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE


ART, LEADERSHIP, AND SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION


Sandra Waddock explores how art has a visionary, future-oriented, role to play in System Transformation.







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2020 Reports

REFRAMING AND TRANSFORMING ECONOMICS AROUND LIFE


HOW TO SPUR RADICAL CHANGE


WILL BUSINESSES AND BUSINESS SCHOOLS MEET THE GRAND CHALLENGES OF THE ERA?


ACHIEVING SUSTAINABILITY REQUIRES SYSTEMIC BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION


INVOKING INDIGENOUS WISDOM FOR MANAGEMENT LEARNING


THINKING TRANSFORMATIONAL SYSTEM CHANGE


TRANSFORMING BUSINESS PURPOSES AND PRACTICES: The Need for a Systems Approach. From Research to Practice.


2019 Reports

STEWARDING ALIVENESS IN A TROUBLED EARTH SYSTEM


WHAT GIVES LIFE TO SYSTEMS CHANGE?


2018 Reports

FOUR STRATEGIES FOR LARGE SYSTEMS CHANGE


THE TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE CHALLENGE OF MEMES: The Case of Marriage Equality in the United States


NARRATIVE, MEMES, AND THE PROSPECT OF LARGE SYSTEM CHANGE


Reports before 2018

SOCIETAL CHANGE SYSTEMS: A Framework to Address Wicked Problems


In this article, Steve Waddell develops the concept of "societal change system" as a framework to support addressing wicked, messy, complex, and meta-level problems.


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LARGE SYSTEMS CHANGE: An Emerging Field of Transformation and Transitions


FOUNDATIONAL MEMES FOR A NEW NARRATIVE ABOUT THE ROLE OF BUSINESS IN SOCIETY


THE COMPLEXITY OF WICKED PROBLEMS IN LARGE SCALE CHANGE


REFLECTIONS: INTELLECTUAL SHAMANS, SENSEMAKING, AND MEMES IN LARGE SYSTEM CHANGE


LARGE SYSTEM CHANGE CHALLENGES: addressing complex critical issues in linked physical and social domains.


LARGE SYSTEM CHANGE - Producing the Change We Want