Handbook of sustainability-driven business strategies in practice / edited by Stefan Markovic, Cristina Sancha, Adam Lindgreen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Markovic, Stefan, editor.

Sancha, Cristina, editor.

Lindgreen, Adam, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial management--Environmental aspects.

Industrial management.

Strategic planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (588 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Tables

Appendices

About the editors

About the contributors

Preface

PART 1 DEFININGA SUSTAINABILITY-DRIVEN BUSINESS STRATEGY

1. Developing a sustainability strategic agenda

2. Corporate foundations as vehicles for sustainable development: how do corporate foundations work with parent companies to achieve sustainability?

3. Materiality analysis as the basis for sustainability strategies and reporting - a systematic review of approaches and recommendations for practice

4. Defining a sustainability-driven business modeling strategy with a "storytelling science" approach

PART 2 SUSTAINABILITY-DRIVEN BUSINESS STRATEGIES IN MARKETING

5. Corporate responsibility as an effective marketing practice for improving consumers' brand evaluations - critical overview, new insights, and future directions

6. Promises, promises: how to showcase the authenticity of sustainability claims through digitalization

7. Interactive network branding: towards a sustainability-driven strategy of small and medium-sized enterprises

8. How does brand-cause fit influence the success of CrM campaigns?

PART 3 SUSTAINABILITY-DRIVEN BUSINESS STRATEGIES IN INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

9. Business model innovation for sustainability: the intersections among business models, innovation, and sustainability

10. Social challenges within sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems

11. The UN Global Compact SDG Action Manager: how benefit corporations and purpose-driven businesses are driving the change

PART 4 SUSTAINABILITY-DRIVEN BUSINESS STRATEGIES IN OPERATIONS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

12. SMEs, environmental sustainability and waste management: a comparative empirical study of Spain and Chile.

13. Adoption of environmental management systems: perspectives from UK, Finland and Thailand

14. The role of purchasing in the diffusion of sustainability in supply networks

15. Sustainability assessment in the food supply chain

16. Sustainable data management

PART 5 SUSTAINABILITY-DRIVEN BUSINESS STRATEGIES IN FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING

17. Do CSR reports impact firms' stock returns? A pilot study analysis

18. An analysis of business actions in private social reporting

19. How environment, social and governance scores impact company financial performance indicators: evidence from Denmark

20. The role of the internal audit function in fostering sustainability reporting

PART 6 SUSTAINABILITY-DRIVEN BUSINESS STRATEGIES IN HUMAN RESOURCES

21. Sustainability-driven HRM: the WHAT, the WHAT FOR and the HOW

22. The role of human resource management function in the institutionalization of sustainability: the case study of the Dutch hotel industry

23. Profits with purpose: corporate and entrepreneurial toxic leadership and threats to organizational sustainability

PART 7 SUSTAINABILITY-DRIVEN BUSINESS STRATEGIES ACROSS FUNCTIONAL AREAS IN AN ORGANIZATION

24. Cross-functional integration in sustainability-driven business practice

25. Strategic alignment of purchasing for sustainability: a multi-level framework

26. Purchasing and marketing of social and environmental sustainability in high-tech medical equipment

PART 8 CASE STUDIES ON SUSTAINABILITY-DRIVEN BUSINESS STRATEGIES

27. Ecoalf: a brand with a conscience

28. Sustainability as strategy: the case of Comwell Hotels

29. Boat trip adventure changing the lives of thousands: the story of Song Saa Private Island

30. Doing business the sustainable 'Novo Nordisk Way'.

31. Sustainability in the chemical industry through an industrial spin-off: the case of Apricot

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Markovic, Stefan Handbook of Sustainability-Driven Business Strategies in Practice

ISBN:

1-78990-835-3

OCLC:

1289370826