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This volume aims to solicit new tools and insights for expanding state-of-the-art applications of Appreciative Inquiry. It revolves around three fundamental aspects of organizational generativity, namely: generative knowledge and organizational life, collective action and the appreciative inquiry summit, and sustainable inter-generative dynamics.

This volume on positive design, appreciative intelligence and social innovation and social entrepreneurship for sustainable value. It takes a generative approach, building on positive design principles inherent in the appreciative inquiry methodology and proposes moving from sustainable development to sustainable value.

Advocates an organizational science that focuses on advancing a scholarship of positive human organizations, positive relationships and positive modalities of change, which promise to be of world benefit for individuals, organizations and communities. This title aims to advance a 'scholarship of the positive' and 'positive scholarship'.

Appreciative Inquiry has touched and affected the life of thousands who apply its principles in a wide range of settings including industry, government and not-for-profit organizations. This book revolves around three main themes: we live in worlds our questions create, appreciative discourse and narrative, and the design of inquiring systems.