Positive-Impact Companies: Designing Business Organizations as Positive Institutions

Abstract

Positive-impact companies are organized around the purpose of positive impact, which we define as increasing economic prosperity while contributing to a healthy environment and improving human wellbeing. Based on lessons learned from the study of PICs, we describe how business organizations can be designed to become positive institutions and create positive change in the world and how Appreciative Inquiry is an ideal social technology to do this work.