Corporate Sustainability Management
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Sustainability Science: An Introduction. ed. / Harald Heinrichs; Pim Martens; Gerd Michelsen; Arnim Wiek. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 85-97.
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T1 - Corporate Sustainability Management
AU - Schaltegger, Stefan
AU - Hansen, Erik G.
AU - Spitzeck, Heiko
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This chapter provides a practice-oriented introduction to corporate sustainability management for students. It first introduces a brief history of corporate sustainability in businesses with reference to selected critical incidents (e.g., accidents environmental pollution) and pioneering firms and (sustainable) entrepreneurs which have developed proactive sustainability strategies and practices already several decades ago. Then the sustainability triangle, a conceptual framework for corporate sustainability, is presented. It aims at economic, eco- and socio-effectiveness by integrating and linking the economic, environmental, and social dimensions through the concepts of eco-efficiency, socio-efficiency, and eco-justice. This heuristic helps to classify sustainability management practices, relate them to each other, check for their synergies, and discuss how to overcome potential trade-offs. For the implementation of sustainability management in practice, collaboration between various actors is necessary. The reminder of the chapter therefore introduces various forms of collaboration available to businesses in order to engage with value chain partners and broader societal partners. Ultimately, the collaboration forms are classified into interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. Each text part contains various questions addressing the readers for their own reflection of current practices concerning the introduced concepts. The chapter ends with a brief conclusion.
AB - This chapter provides a practice-oriented introduction to corporate sustainability management for students. It first introduces a brief history of corporate sustainability in businesses with reference to selected critical incidents (e.g., accidents environmental pollution) and pioneering firms and (sustainable) entrepreneurs which have developed proactive sustainability strategies and practices already several decades ago. Then the sustainability triangle, a conceptual framework for corporate sustainability, is presented. It aims at economic, eco- and socio-effectiveness by integrating and linking the economic, environmental, and social dimensions through the concepts of eco-efficiency, socio-efficiency, and eco-justice. This heuristic helps to classify sustainability management practices, relate them to each other, check for their synergies, and discuss how to overcome potential trade-offs. For the implementation of sustainability management in practice, collaboration between various actors is necessary. The reminder of the chapter therefore introduces various forms of collaboration available to businesses in order to engage with value chain partners and broader societal partners. Ultimately, the collaboration forms are classified into interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. Each text part contains various questions addressing the readers for their own reflection of current practices concerning the introduced concepts. The chapter ends with a brief conclusion.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - Sustainability management
KW - Corporate sustainability
KW - Stakeholder collaboration
KW - Transdisciplinarity research
KW - Corporate social responsibility Sustainability Science Sustainability Science Look Inside Other actions Export citation About this Book Reprints and Permissions Add to Papers Share Share this content on Facebook Share this content on Twi
KW - Sustainability management
KW - Corporate sustainability
KW - Stakeholder collaboration
KW - Transdisciplinarity research
KW - Corporate social responsibility
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-017-7242-6_7
DO - 10.1007/978-94-017-7242-6_7
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-94-017-7241-9
SP - 85
EP - 97
BT - Sustainability Science
A2 - Heinrichs, Harald
A2 - Martens, Pim
A2 - Michelsen, Gerd
A2 - Wiek, Arnim
PB - Springer Verlag
CY - Dordrecht
ER -