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Making sustainability work : best practices in managing and measuring corporate social, environmental, and economic impacts / Marc J. Epstein and Adriana Rejc Buhovac ; with forewords by John Elkington and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, Marc J., author.
- Rejc, Adriana, author.
- Series:
- BK business book.
- BK business book
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social responsibility of business.
- Corporations--Environmental aspects.
- Corporations.
- Industries--Environmental aspects.
- Industries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 305 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- Second edition, completely revised and updated.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Now completely updated, Making Sustainability Work is the bible for applying real metrics and best practices to the often-nebulous realm of business sustainability. Mark Epstein and Adriana Rejc Buhovac provide concrete tools for measuring and increasing social and environmental impacts in a manner that businesses can understand and put to real use.
- Contents:
- List of cases, figures, and tables
- Foreword from the first edition / John Elkington, SustainAbility
- Foreword from the first edition / Herman B. Dutch Leonard, Harvard Business School
- Preface
- Introduction: improving sustainability and financial performance in global corporations
- Leadership, organizational culture, and strategy for corporate sustainability
- Organizing for sustainability
- Costing, capital investments, and the integration of sustainability risks
- Performance measurement, evaluation, and reward systems
- The foundations for measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts
- Implementing a social, environmental, and economic impact measurement system
- Improving corporate processes, products, and projects for corporate sustainability
- External sustainability reporting and verification
- The benefits of sustainability for corporations and society
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- "A Greenleaf Publishing Book"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781351276429
- 1351276425
- 9781351276443
- 1351276441
- 9781351276436
- 1351276433
- 9781785399763
- 1785399764
- 9781609949952
- 1609949951
- 9781609949945
- 1609949943
- OCLC:
- 870590900
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