In summary, this special issue of Greener Management International hopefully provides a concise overview of the current status and an insight into recent new work on the debate and practice of the relationship between sustainability performance, business competitiveness, with a particular focus on empirical evidence and on a wide geographical and industrial scope. In particular the geographical spread of the research, from, America to Asia and from northern via western to Southern Europe, and into developing and emerging economies, impressively reflects the truly global nature of the issues at the heart of sustainability and the topic of this special issue.