Already at a second glance though, the topic of
sustainability raises a whole range of questions that beg to
be answered. In other words, the reduction of complexity in
the context of ecology by the term ‘sustainability’ does not
work in the same straightforward way in each and every
context to the same level of effectiveness. For example, who
does the ‘ability to meet the needs of future generations’
apply to in an OD context? To employees, to the established
original technology, to the achievements of an endeavor in
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the region, to culture and society where it is embedded, to
the OD sponsors and consultants, or to all of them? (see also
Prammer, 2009b: 96 f.) [15] Participants involved in an OD
process will all assess the results obtained in that process for
their sustainability in a different way. To be more precise,
they might not deem them to be sustainable at all