TY - CHAP

T1 - What Triggers Corporate Sustainability

T2 - 27th Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management - BAM 2013

AU - Hörisch, Jacob

AU - Schaltegger, Stefan

N1 - Conference code: 27

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - This paper investigates different possible factors influencing the degree to which a company engages for sustainability. Based on existing literature, company-internal and -external influences are identified in a first step. In a second step, these factors are tested by combining empirical survey data of 468 companies with publicly available data. The test of ten linear and binary logistic regression models reveals that both, company-internal and -external factors, are able to influence corporate engagement for sustainability. Know-how about sustainability management is found to be among the strongest promoting drivers for corporate sustainability engagement in most models.

AB - This paper investigates different possible factors influencing the degree to which a company engages for sustainability. Based on existing literature, company-internal and -external influences are identified in a first step. In a second step, these factors are tested by combining empirical survey data of 468 companies with publicly available data. The test of ten linear and binary logistic regression models reveals that both, company-internal and -external factors, are able to influence corporate engagement for sustainability. Know-how about sustainability management is found to be among the strongest promoting drivers for corporate sustainability engagement in most models.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

KW - Entrepreneurship

UR - http://conference.bam.ac.uk/BAM2013/htdocs/index.php

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

BT - British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference “Managing to Make a Difference”

PB - British Academy of Management

Y2 - 10 September 2013 through 12 September 2013

ER -