Sustainability Management

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

Authors

Sustainability management is a notion which has made an impressive career for the last decade. It firstly describes an activity of managing sustainability issues in organizations and is secondly very often used for the group or decision makers who conduct sustainability management activities. The goals of sustainability management are described in a multitude of ways and mostly comprise the successful integration of ecological, social, and economic aspects in a company. Sustainability managers, sometimes called CSR managers, Corporate Responsibility managers, EHS managers, etc., are those employees or managers who in a company are responsible to organize social and environmental activities in line with the company’s strategic and business goals. Seen as a specific activity, and as a difference to the sum of uncoordinated social and environmental...
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEncyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility
EditorsSamuel O. Idowu, Nicholas Capaldi, Liangrong Zu, Ananda Das Gupta
Number of pages5
Place of PublicationHeidelberg, New York
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2013
Pages2384-2388
ISBN (print)978-3-642-28035-1
ISBN (electronic)978-3-642-28036-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013