This open access volume connects normative foundations, strategic decision-making, and hands-on implementation of sustainable business development practices within a single volume, rather than treating them as separate domains. It brings together perspectives ranging from ethics, leadership education, and societal transformation to firm-level governance, consumer behavior, and applied circular economy tools—offering an integrated view of sustainability across levels of analysis. Another distinguishing feature is its strong practice–theory balance: conceptual contributions are consistently linked to real-world cases, methodologies, and actionable instruments. Finally, the volume stands out for its truly global authorship, with contributors from many countries and regions worldwide.

Academics and researchers working on sustainable development, policymakers, and corporate executives managing organizational change and development will find this book of interest.

Arie Hans Verkuil, Professor, PhD, is a theologian and holds a doctorate in business ethics from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has a postgraduate degree in nonprofit management from the Institute for Association, Foundation and Cooperative Management (VMI) at the University of Fribourg, and Swiss Postgraduate Studies in Human Resource Management (SNP). He is a lecturer in management, mindful leadership, and ethics at the School of Business, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, and heads the Institute of Management there. He was a strategic advisor to the Swiss Federal Administration for many years. He is a member of various international scientific advisory boards and reviewer for international conferences and scientific publications.

Uta Milow, Professor, PhD, is a lecturer and researcher of economics at FHNW with a research focus on sustainable and international entrepreneurship. She studied at the University of Mannheim in Germany and the University of Oregon in the USA. After completing a master’s degree in economics at the University of Mannheim, she went on to undertake a PhD in Economics at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany, funded by a scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg State Doctoral Programme. Following professional experience in the banking sector, she began teaching at university level. Since 2000, she has been a lecturer at the School of Business, FHNW. She is Head of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) programmes at the School of Business, FHNW, and is responsible for all executive education programmes at the FHNW Institute of Management.

Andreas Hinz, Professor, PhD, is Program Manager of the Swiss-Asian MBA and of the MBA-MCI programme, Ho Chi Minh City/Vietnam, at the School of Business, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. His research focuses on entrepreneurship, business model innovation, startup incubation, startup competitions in Switzerland and Asia, and digital transformation. His current research projects are on startup incubators for refugees, digitalization and smart service portals of public organizations, and in-vitro diagnostics / e-Health.

Mahmoud Al-Kilani, Professor, PhD, is at the School of Business, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. He has a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, and has a postgraduate degree in teaching and learning in higher education. His research focus is on business model innovation, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial ecosystems, business start-ups, and sustainability. He is involved in various projects, on the landscape of intangible reporting, which is a joint project of KPMG and the International Association for Accounting Education & Research; and on social innovation hubs in the Middle East.