Organisational Involvement of Corporate Functions in Sustainability Management: An Empirical Analysis of Large German Companies

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title = "Organisational Involvement of Corporate Functions in Sustainability Management: An Empirical Analysis of Large German Companies",
abstract = "This paper investigates whether and to what extent different corporate unctions are involved in corporate sustainability management. Most of the existing literature agrees that sustainable development of a company is a cross-functional challenge.It thus seems obvious that all corporate functions or departments should be involved in sustainability management. An empirical analysis of large German companies in 2010, however, reveals large differences between the functional units.We propose a framework which distinguishes different components of involvement in practice: affectedness by sustainability issues, promotion of the implementation of corporate sustainability and application of specific sustainability management tools.The main findings are that with regard to the kind and the degree of involvement some corporate functions like CSR, communications and strategic management are heavily involved. Contrary to these functions, accounting, management control and finance are considered to be largely unaffected by sustainability. Overall, significant links between affectedness and the application of sustainability management tools exist as well as between the promotion of corporate sustainability and tool application whereas the affectedness of a functional unit influences the application of tools the most.",
keywords = "Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics, Corporate Sustainability, Germany",
author = "Stefan Schaltegger and Dorli Harms and Windolph, {Sarah Elena} and Jacob H{\"o}risch",
year = "2011",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-942638-10-4",
publisher = "Centre for Sustainability Management",
address = "Germany",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "Centre for Sustainability Management",

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TY - UNPB

T1 - Organisational Involvement of Corporate Functions in Sustainability Management

T2 - An Empirical Analysis of Large German Companies

AU - Schaltegger, Stefan

AU - Harms, Dorli

AU - Windolph, Sarah Elena

AU - Hörisch, Jacob

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

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KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

KW - Corporate Sustainability

KW - Germany

M3 - Working papers

SN - 978-3-942638-10-4

BT - Organisational Involvement of Corporate Functions in Sustainability Management

PB - Centre for Sustainability Management

CY - Lüneburg

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