How to serve sustainability performance in businesses? An appetizing recipe to link practices to performance in business sustainability research
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In: Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 30, No. 4, 05.2021, p. 1610-1622.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - How to serve sustainability performance in businesses?
T2 - An appetizing recipe to link practices to performance in business sustainability research
AU - Imbrogiano, Jean-Pierre
AU - Nichols, Elizabeth
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2021/5
Y1 - 2021/5
N2 - Recent critiques claim that business sustainability scholarship offers little evidence on how to effectively address business unsustainability. In this article, we demonstrate why this problem exists. Specifically, we argue that the literatures on internal practices of business sustainability, and on the sustainability performance of businesses, do not speak to each other and that explanatory models also fail to bridge a corresponding gap in the field. We argue for the development of a subfield of sustainability performance in businesses and explain the types of inquiries that should be developed. Finally, we suggest how scholars in the business sustainability field could contribute to the development of better understanding of sustainability performance in businesses.
AB - Recent critiques claim that business sustainability scholarship offers little evidence on how to effectively address business unsustainability. In this article, we demonstrate why this problem exists. Specifically, we argue that the literatures on internal practices of business sustainability, and on the sustainability performance of businesses, do not speak to each other and that explanatory models also fail to bridge a corresponding gap in the field. We argue for the development of a subfield of sustainability performance in businesses and explain the types of inquiries that should be developed. Finally, we suggest how scholars in the business sustainability field could contribute to the development of better understanding of sustainability performance in businesses.
KW - business sustainability
KW - field gap
KW - sustainability performance
KW - Sustainability Governance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097503277&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/bse.2697
DO - 10.1002/bse.2697
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 30
SP - 1610
EP - 1622
JO - Business Strategy and the Environment
JF - Business Strategy and the Environment
SN - 0964-4733
IS - 4
ER -