Salvaging Corporate Sustainability

Going Beyond the Business Case

AvMichael L. Barnett,Irene Henriques

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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This critical book presents ways to improve the impact of corporate sustainability programs on the ecological and social systems that we rely upon. Integrating three decades of multidisciplinary empirical and conceptual research undertaken by three leading management scholars in three countries, this book addresses the current state of, and the prospects for, business to help create a truly sustainable society.Providing a balanced perspective, Salvaging Corporate Sustainability expertly charts the path from the promises of corporate sustainability, to where it has gone wrong, and on to where it needs to go from here. The authors conclude by outlining a research agenda for finding a working balance between free market and formal governance that can yield substantive corporate sustainability programs. Overall, this book will challenge readers to take a broader view of how we use the planet’s limited resources and the ways in which corporations can work with their stakeholders and the government to address our global sustainability challenges.Offering new directions for uncovering better ways to increase sustainability through business, this book will be core reading for academics and students of business leadership, corporate social responsibility, corporate sustainability, and strategic management. It will also be useful for practitioners who oversee and implement sustainability practices, helping them to conceptualize how to approach their jobs.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-08
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Horizons in Sustainability and Business series
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781035325290

Utforska kategorier

Entreprenörskap inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Affärsetik inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Affärsstrategi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Michael L. Barnett, Professor of Management, Department of Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University, US, Irene Henriques, Professor of Sustainability and Economics, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada and Bryan W.Husted, Professor of Management, EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

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‘For over 30 years a plethora of scholars and practitioners of sustainability – including myself – turned to the firm, and their collaborative initiatives with stakeholders, in the hopes of offering efficient and effective ways to address the myriad of environmental challenges facing the planet. As this important tome by three leading corporate sustainability scholars point out – the hopes that building the “business case” for sustainability would lead to “win win” outcomes did not come to pass: from an array of measures from the climate crisis to mass species extinctions – the world is now much worse off than it was when we collectively turned to corporate sustainability governance for solutions.

Innehållsförteckning

Contents: Preface PART I CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY: PREMISES AND PROMISES 1. Surveying sustainability 2. Profiting from sustainability 3. Sustaining society PART II THE REALITIES OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY 4. Satisfying stakeholders shan’t sustain society 5. Baked-in biases of the business case 6. Digital detours are dubious PART III GETTING GOOD WITH GOVERNMENT 7. Sussing out the scope of social control 8. Gripes against government 9. Learning to lean on Leviathan Index