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Transorganizational
collaboration and
sustainability *
networks 1
William G. Russell, Jenny Ambrozek, Victoria G. Axelrod,
Jane Carbonaro, and Linda M. Kelley
What does it mean to be a holistically integrated enterprise fully aligned for sustain-
ability? First and foremost, it means improving core abilities to collaborate, engage
stakeholders, and work effectively in the context of a larger social and industrial ecol-
ogy2 networked system. In contrast, most enterprises today are focused primarily on
issues of control, secrecy, competition, and unilateral success regardless of their exter-
nalities, or impacts on the environment, communities,