The Palgrave Handbook of Corporate Sustainability in the Digital Era

The Palgrave Handbook of Corporate Sustainability in the Digital Era
Author: Seung Ho Park
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 880
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 303042412X

This handbook addresses the intersection between corporate sustainability and digital transformation. It analyzes the challenges and transformations required to be able to have sustainable businesses with a future orientation. Topics include current and potential social, demographic, technological, and managerial trends; the implications of the digital revolution in society and business; as well as the challenges of being sustainable, and profitable. Providing an understanding of the business reasons to incorporate a future orientation into the business strategy, this handbook facilitates an understanding of the need for profound changes in individual behavior, organizational culture, public policy, and business environments to adapt to the accelerated changes and manage business with orientation to the future.

Handbook of Corporate Sustainability

Handbook of Corporate Sustainability
Author: M. A. Quaddus
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849807949

Achieving corporate sustainability (CS) is one of the most difficult challenges facing organizations in the twenty-first century. This comprehensive Handbook examines the current status and future direction of sustainability frameworks and applications in the corporate environment. Internationally reputed scholars portray the frameworks of CS practices in contemporary businesses. They explore in detail these frameworks and the associated computer-based modelling tools that companies are using, or can use, to aid their decision-making with regards to CS and corporate social responsibility practices. The contributors expertly investigate the future direction of model-based applications in CS as well as related planning processes. This innovative and informative Handbook will provide a timely reminder to scholars, government agencies, international bodies, academics and practitioners that appropriate decision-making and a correct understanding of these complex problems are essential to the success of CS planning.

A Guide to Sustainable Corporate Responsibility

A Guide to Sustainable Corporate Responsibility
Author: Caroline D. Ditlev-Simonsen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2022
Genre: Industrial management
ISBN: 3030882039

This open access book discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by companies in an age that increasingly values sustainability and demands corporate responsibility. Beginning with the historical development of corporate responsibility, this book moves from academic theory to practical application. It points to ways in which companies can successfully manage their transition to a more responsible, sustainable way of doing business, common mistakes to avoid and how the UN Sustainable Development Goals are integral to any sustainability transformation. Practical cases illustrate key points. Drawing on thirty years of sustainability research and extensive corporate experience, the author provides tools such as a Step-by-Step strategic guide on integrating sustainability in collaboration with stakeholders including employees, customers, suppliers and investors. The book is particularly relevant for SMEs and companies operating in emerging markets. From a broader perspective, the value of externalities, full cost pricing, alternative economic theories and circular economy are also addressed.

The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility

The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility
Author: Andrew Crane
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks Online
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2008-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199211590

CSR encompasses broad questions about the changing relationship between business, society, and government. An authoritative review of the academic research that has both prompted, and responded to, these issues, the text provides clear thinking and perspectives on CSR and the debates around it.

Handbook on the Business of Sustainability

Handbook on the Business of Sustainability
Author: Yousafzai, Shumaila
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2022-02-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839105348

This ground-breaking Handbook uniquely focuses on the business of sustainability, offering a fresh insight and practical solutions to the challenges that businesses face in making human activity sustainable. It is organized into four distinctive themes that cut across levels of analysis and illustrate a rich set of solution contexts that will guide future research.

Handbook of Sustainability-Driven Business Strategies in Practice

Handbook of Sustainability-Driven Business Strategies in Practice
Author: Markovic, Stefan
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789908353

Sustainability is a top priority for organizations and a key strategy in corporate agendas, but the effective deployment of any strategy demands that the strategy is consistent, functional, and aligned. This Handbook advocates sustainability strategies that encompass environmental, social, and economic dimensions at department-level.

Corporate Sustainability in Practice

Corporate Sustainability in Practice
Author: Paolo Taticchi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030563448

Building better organisations, with a clear sense of purpose, is a common challenge faced by many entrepreneurs and executives in industry. A fully integrated corporate sustainability strategy can help organisations to better manage risks, to win business opportunities and to ultimately strengthen reputation. Building on the experience of renowned strategists, sustainability, finance and academic experts, this book offers practical tools and approaches that can be used to develop and implement fully integrated corporate sustainability strategies.

The Sustainability Handbook

The Sustainability Handbook
Author: William R. Blackburn
Publisher: Earthscan
Total Pages: 822
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849773297

The Sustainability Handbook covers all the challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and other organizations. It provides a blueprint for how organizations can reach or exceed economic, social and environmental excellence. It offers a host of practical approaches and tools including a model sustainability policy for organizations, summaries of sustainability codes and tips on selecting them, an extensive collection of metrics and a wealth of supplementary reference material. This is the essential reference for every organization in pursuit of sustainability.

The Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability

The Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability
Author: Beate Sjåfjell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 758
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781108473293

The emerging field of corporate law, corporate governance and sustainability is one of the most dynamic and significant areas of law and policy in light of the convergence of environmental, social and economic crises that we face as a global society. Understanding the impact of the corporation on society and realizing its potential for contributing to sustainability is vital for the future of humanity. This Handbook comprehensively assesses the state-of-the-art in this field through in-depth discussion of sustainability-related problems, numerous case studies on regulatory responses implemented by jurisdictions around the world, and analyses of predominant strategies and potential drivers of change. This Handbook will be an essential reference for scholars, students, practitioners, policymakers, and general readers interested in how corporate law and governance have exacerbated global society's most pressing challenges, and how reforms to these fields can help us resolve those challenges and achieve sustainability.