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Corporate Sustainability in Practice

A Guide for Strategy Development and Implementation

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Editors:
  1. Paolo Taticchi

    1. University College London, London, UK

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  2. Melissa Demartini

    1. University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

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  • Provides clear guidelines and a framework for the integration and execution of corporate sustainability strategies
  • Provides a new definition of corporate sustainability
  • Reviews the drivers of the corporate sustainability debate
  • Reviews sustainability trends in industry
  • Provides a comprehensive discussion of the link between corporate sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals
  • Provides updated case studies of organizations of different size, industries and geographies

Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Corporate Sustainability: The Big Picture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. How Environmental and Social Issues Affect Business Strategy

      • Melissa Demartini, Paolo Taticchi
      Pages 3-20

    3. The Sustainable Development Goals: A Framework for Business

      • Valérie Amato
      Pages 21-40

    4. Thinking in Systems: The Long-Term Impacts of Short-Term Business growth

      • Roberto Pasqualino
      Pages 41-61

  3. The Business Case for Corporate Sustainability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. A Modern Definition of Corporate Sustainability

      • Paolo Taticchi, Melissa Demartini
      Pages 65-74

    3. Sustainability Facts

      • Melissa Demartini, Paolo Taticchi
      Pages 75-96

    4. The Link Between Sustainability Investing and Financial Returns: An Asset Management’s Perspective

      • Daniel Ung
      Pages 97-110

    5. Sustainable Finance––Integrating Sustainability into Corporate Banking

      • Laura Maida
      Pages 111-124

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 225-226
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University College London, London, UK

    Paolo Taticchi

  • University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

    Melissa Demartini

About the editors

Paolo Taticchi is Professorial Teaching Fellow in Management & Sustainability and Executive Director of Global Student Experience at Imperial College Business School, UK. He teaches modules on sustainability and competitive advantage, strategy, global operations and projects, and the future of cities. Paolo is also active in the entrepreneurial space, co-founding three firms in the fields of engineering and consultancy.

Melissa Demartini is an Adjunct Professor of Operations Management and Sustainability at the University of Genoa, Italy and Visiting researcher at Imperial College Business School, UK. Her research interests are mainly in the areas of corporate sustainability, operations management, and modelling. She is also industrial sustainability coordinator for the Intelligent Factory Cluster’s Roadmap Project – an Italian government initiative which aims to develop a national strategy to improve the international competitiveness of manufacturing companies.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Corporate Sustainability in Practice

  • Book Subtitle: A Guide for Strategy Development and Implementation

  • Editors: Paolo Taticchi, Melissa Demartini

  • Series Title: Management for Professionals

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56344-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56343-1Published: 25 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56346-2Published: 25 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56344-8Published: 24 November 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2192-8096

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 226

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability Management, Corporate Governance

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