Since the publishing of what is commonly known as the
Brundtland-Report (World Commission on Environment
and Development, 1987) [22] the term sustainability has
been used in various ways (Marrewijk, 2003: 96) [12]. In the
context of organizations sustainability primarily appears in
two facets. On the one hand the term is likely used as a
largely featurless and non-descript adjective, and on the
other hand as ‘Corporate Sustainability’ (Jonker, 2015) [10].
Corporate sustainability receives growing scientific attention
as companies have begun to acknowledge their social and
environmental responsibility (UN Global Compact, 2010)
[21]. However, there is almost no relevant literature which
would explicitly pertain to or which would provide an indepth
exploration of the concept of sustainability in the
context of Organization Development (OD) itself
(Neugebauer / Prammer / Pawel / Erdös, 2015) [13].