Excellence, Sustainability and the Bottom of the Pyramid Paradigm

Abstract

The kernel of the author’s published work on the subject especially between 1999 and 2011 can be stated thus. Managerial Ethics is the foundation upon which Corporate Governance is based. The two combine to create conditions and a culture within which Organisational Excellence can be attained. Excellence however, cannot be an end in itself and needs to cascade into Business Sustainability. This is at the micro level. At the macro level the interface between business and society is called for and hence Corporate Social Responsibility enters the calculus and when linked to micro reality concepts like the Triple Bottom Line emerge as a point of academic study and concern for management and social scientists. It is within this context that the argument of this paper has been predicated.