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The need to develop new enterprise, social innovation and initiative models that can address the emerging social needs and social challenges of the near and long-term is very wellestablished. The world is facing a litany of sustainability challenges that will require dramatic innovation-novel and bold approaches to address these challenges. One basis for sustainability can be understood to be resilience and adaptive capacity. Diverse enterprise/initiative responses to our emerging challenges is one of the key pillars for creating the conditions of adaptive (social) capacity, and hence sustainable futures (Gunderson 2002). In more Schumpeterian terms, emerging enterprises create the conditions for economic and industrial transformation. Research and corporate strategies point toward eco-social sustainment as a critical thematic foundation for the next wave of industrial and social transformation (Dunphy,