Corporate Sustainability in Practice
A Guide for Strategy Development and Implementation
Editors: Taticchi, Paolo, Demartini, Melissa (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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How Environmental and Social Issues Affect Business Strategy
Pages 3-20
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The Sustainable Development Goals: A Framework for Business
Pages 21-40
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Thinking in Systems: The Long-Term Impacts of Short-Term Business growth
Pages 41-61
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A Modern Definition of Corporate Sustainability
Pages 65-74
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Sustainability Facts
Pages 75-96
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Corporate Sustainability in Practice
- Book Subtitle
- A Guide for Strategy Development and Implementation
- Editors
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- Paolo Taticchi
- Melissa Demartini
- Series Title
- Management for Professionals
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-56344-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-56344-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-56343-1
- Series ISSN
- 2192-8096
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 226
- Number of Illustrations
- 12 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
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