TY - CHAP

T1 - International Corporate Sustainability Barometer

T2 - Purpose and Approach

AU - Hörisch, Jacob

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - In a first step, this chapter provides a brief review of the existing literature on the international state of the art of sustainability management. The review reveals that while a large body of studies already exists, most publications deal with single nations or bilateral comparisons. Among the truly international studies, a lack of comparative quantitative inquiries on a country-specific level is identified.In a second step, the edited volume’s methodological approach to address this research gap is outlined. Unlike prior studies on sustainability management, the ICSB builds on a comprehensive survey among sustainability managers in large companies and is not restricted to single aspects of sustainability management. This chapter describes the process of data collection and provides the reader with the most important information on the resulting sample which includes 468 companies of 11 economically developed countries from 4 distinct world regions.

AB - In a first step, this chapter provides a brief review of the existing literature on the international state of the art of sustainability management. The review reveals that while a large body of studies already exists, most publications deal with single nations or bilateral comparisons. Among the truly international studies, a lack of comparative quantitative inquiries on a country-specific level is identified.In a second step, the edited volume’s methodological approach to address this research gap is outlined. Unlike prior studies on sustainability management, the ICSB builds on a comprehensive survey among sustainability managers in large companies and is not restricted to single aspects of sustainability management. This chapter describes the process of data collection and provides the reader with the most important information on the resulting sample which includes 468 companies of 11 economically developed countries from 4 distinct world regions.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

KW - Corporate Social Responsibility

KW - Sustainability Management

KW - Corporate Sustainability

KW - Corporate Social Responsibility Practice

KW - Global Compact

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-06227-3_2

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-06227-3_2

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-3-319-06226-6

T3 - Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science

SP - 13

EP - 19

BT - Corporate Sustainability in International Comparison

A2 - Schaltegger, Stefan

A2 - Windolph, Sarah Elena

A2 - Harms, Dorli

A2 - Hörisch, Jacob

PB - Springer International Publishing AG

CY - Cham

ER -