Business Cases for Sustainability
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Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility. ed. / Samuel O. Idowu; Nicholas Capaldi; Liangrong Zu; Ananda Das Gupta. Vol. 1 Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2013. p. 245-252.
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T1 - Business Cases for Sustainability
AU - Schaltegger, Stefan
AU - Lüdeke-Freund, Florian
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - A business case for sustainability intends and realizes economic success through (and not just with) an intelligent design of voluntary environmental and social management. A business case for sustainability is different from a conventional economic business case. It can be characterized by three requirements which have to be met. Firstly, the company has to realize a voluntary or mainly voluntary activity with the intention to contribute to the solution of societal or environmental problems. These are intended activities for the society or the natural environment which are not just a reaction to legal enforcement and regulations or which would anyhow be expected for economic reasons as part of conventional business behavior. Secondly, the activity must create a positive business effector a positive contribution to the...
AB - A business case for sustainability intends and realizes economic success through (and not just with) an intelligent design of voluntary environmental and social management. A business case for sustainability is different from a conventional economic business case. It can be characterized by three requirements which have to be met. Firstly, the company has to realize a voluntary or mainly voluntary activity with the intention to contribute to the solution of societal or environmental problems. These are intended activities for the society or the natural environment which are not just a reaction to legal enforcement and regulations or which would anyhow be expected for economic reasons as part of conventional business behavior. Secondly, the activity must create a positive business effector a positive contribution to the...
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - Business Case
KW - Business Case for Sustainability
KW - Corporate Sustainability
KW - Sustainability Management
KW - conceptual
KW - Entrepreneurship
KW - Sustainable entrepreneurship
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105011896317&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_744
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_744
M3 - Articles for encyclopedia
SN - 978-3-642-28035-1
VL - 1
SP - 245
EP - 252
BT - Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility
A2 - Idowu, Samuel O.
A2 - Capaldi, Nicholas
A2 - Zu, Liangrong
A2 - Das Gupta, Ananda
PB - Springer Verlag
CY - Berlin/Heidelberg
ER -