Sustainable Strategic Management

Sustainable Strategic Management
Author: W. Edward Stead
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780765611314

This work fills the need for a strategic management text that gives full attention to sustainability and environmental protection. It includes chapter-by-chapter case studies of two organizations that exemplify many of the principles of environmentally sound management practices.

Rethinking Strategic Management

Rethinking Strategic Management
Author: Thomas Wunder
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2019-09-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030060144

This book offers innovative ideas and frameworks for sustainable strategizing to advance business by scaling-up its positive impact, which is so urgently needed at this time in the 21st century. It shows practitioners how to effectively deal with socio-ecological systems’ disruptions to their operating environments and play an active role in transforming markets toward a sustainable future. In short, the book demonstrates how to make business sense of sustainability, highlighting new approaches and examples that translate sustainability into strategy and action. The ultimate goal is to provide a path toward a thriving future for both business and society. This book was written for strategy practitioners and decision makers who want to understand why sustainable strategizing is important in today’s business world and are seeking actionable business knowledge they can apply in their companies. It was also written for students of management and can be used as a supplemental text to support traditional graduate and undergraduate management courses.

Winning Sustainability Strategies

Winning Sustainability Strategies
Author: Benoit Leleux
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2018-11-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319974459

Despite recent optimism and global initiatives, the implementation of corporate sustainability programs has been slow at best, with less than a third of global companies having developed a clear business case for their approach to sustainability. Presenting numerous award-winning cases and examples from companies such as Unilever, Patagonia, Tumi, DSM and Umicore alongside original ideas based upon 20 years of consulting experience, this book reveals how to design and implement a stronger sense of focus and move sustainability programs forward. This proven combination of purpose, direction and speed is dubbed “Vectoring”. Based upon practitioner cases and data analysis from the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Vectoring offers a plain-spoken framework to identify the relative position of companies compared to their peers. The framework and its 4 archetypes deliver insights for practitioners to locate inhibitors and overcome them by providing practical suggestions for process improvements. This includes designing and executing new sustainability programs, embedding the SDGs within company strategy and assessing the impact of sustainability programs on competitiveness and valuation. Offering directions for CFOs to shift companies from integrated reporting to integrated thinking in order to accelerate their sustainability programs, Winning Sustainability Strategies shows how to achieve purpose with profit and how to do well by doing good.

Managerial Strategies for Business Sustainability During Turbulent Times

Managerial Strategies for Business Sustainability During Turbulent Times
Author: Leon, Ramona-Diana
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2017-07-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522527176

As the economy fluctuates, so does the need for resilient business practices. If organizations can remain strong and steady during difficult times, they will be more fruitful during successful periods as well. Managerial Strategies for Business Sustainability During Turbulent Times is a crucial resource that discusses successful methods and techniques for building sturdy company practices. Featuring pertinent topics such as sustainable supply chains, knowledge management, information sharing, and performance evaluations, this is an ideal scholarly reference source for CEOs, managers, business students, and researchers that would like to discover more unique and engaging ways to build a strong business foundation.

Business Strategies for Sustainability

Business Strategies for Sustainability
Author: Helen Borland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2018-10-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429858981

Business Strategies for Sustainability brings together important research contributions that demonstrate different approaches to business strategies for sustainability. Many corporate initiatives toward what firms perceive to be sustainability are simply efficiency drives or competitive moves – falling far short of actual strategies for ecological sustainability. To suggest true ecological sustainability strategies, this new research anthology adopts an interdisciplinary, or transdisciplinary, approach to discern what business strategies might look like if they were underpinned by environmental and ecological science. The 23 chapters in this anthology reflect five main topic sections: (a) delineating sustainability challenges and visions; (b) contradiction, integration and transformation of business and sustainability logics; (c) innovating and developing strategic capabilities for sustainability; (d) assessing and valuing sustainability; and (e) toward multi-level engagement and collaboration.

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.

Management for a Small Planet

Management for a Small Planet
Author: Stead
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2015-05-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0765628953

When this classic text was first published in 1992 it provided a unique focus for the burgeoning concern for sustainability and sustainable organizational practices. The book's impact continues to be felt today as large multinational corporations are making substantial commitments to the 'triple bottom line' of economic success, social responsibility, and environmental protection, and sustainability has become a part of curricula in business schools around the globe. Featuring extensive new material throughout, this new edition of "Management for a Small Planet" maintains the same unique vision and approach that made the original so influential. Unlike other texts on the topic, it employs a strategic, general management perspective within theoretical frameworks on how organizations can be instrumental in moving humankind toward a more sustainable world. Part I includes chapters dedicated to each dimension of sustainability: biophysical, economic, and social. Part II contains the specifics on the formulation and implementation of sustainable management practices, all grounded in the principles of organizational behavior, leadership, and business strategy. The book is an ideal text for any course concerned with environmental management and sustainable management practices.

Business Strategy for Sustainable Development

Business Strategy for Sustainable Development
Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 147
Release: 1994-07
Genre: Business
ISBN: 0788110489

Determines the role of bus. in SD and the market and profit opportunities it presents; defines the strategic choices available to bus. enterprises in relation to SD and the environment, the internat'l. usage of each strategy, and the determinants involved; assesses how managing for SD will require revisions to current mgmt. systems; explores in detail the stakeholder relations and corp. reporting aspects of the mgmt. system; and recommends action by gov't. , bus., and other parties that would encourage bus. enterprises to contribute more actively to global SD.

Sustainable Operations Management

Sustainable Operations Management
Author: Andrea Chiarini
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-01-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319140027

This book presents innovative research on various aspects of sustainability in the field of operations management and illustrates the potential of sustainability thinking and practice to improve operations performance and thereby meet customer needs. Particular attention is devoted to corporate social responsibility and marketing strategy, knowledge management for sustainability, the role of culture in a sustainable built environment, sustainable manufacturing through the application of lean and green concepts, advancing sustainability through ISO standards, and the sustainable supply chain. The present decade is proving to be a time of change in terms of business strategies and operations management. Many of the trends are still subject to uncertainty, but an understanding of the need for, and benefits of, sustainability can give a clear indication of their trajectory. Consumers and markets in general believe that while implementing their business strategies, companies should also try to improve society and the environment and to exercise social responsibility toward their employees. This book provides insights into how this may be achieved, and it is recommended for researchers as well as all practitioners and managers dedicated to enhancing sustainability in operations.

Strategic Management

Strategic Management
Author: Page West
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991155224

"Strategic Management: Value Creation, Sustainability, and Performance" provides a theory-based, but hands-on approach to the study of strategic management. Emphasizing strategy development in highly competitive environments, it applies traditional theoretical principles and frameworks to today's dynamic business climate. It uses value creation and resource-based sustainability as central integrating concepts, enabling a broad discussion of stakeholders and organizational goals, as well as in-depth exploration of the foundation of superior long term performance. This book is strongly grounded in contemporary strategic management theory, but it also has a very practical bent. Chapters provide guidance on actually putting the frameworks to use (e.g., steps to conduct an industry analysis, how to do a resource analysis, how to conduct a value chain analysis) along with examples of how to do so. Classroom-tested and peer-reviewed, the author employs a lively and engaging writing style that will appeal to students and instructors alike.