Transorganizational collaboration and sustainability networks focuses on how enterprises can improve their ability to collaborate, engage stakeholders, and work effectively within larger social and industrial networks in order to achieve sustainability. Most enterprises today focus primarily on control, secrecy, competition and their own success without considering external impacts on the environment, communities and society. To be truly sustainable, organizations must become holistically integrated and aligned through collaborative cross-organizational networks.

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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,