The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard: Linking Sustainability Management to Business Strategy

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The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard: Linking Sustainability Management to Business Strategy. / Figge, Frank; Hahn, Tobias; Schaltegger, Stefan et al.
In: Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 11, No. 5, 09.2002, p. 269-284.

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title = "The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard: Linking Sustainability Management to Business Strategy",
abstract = "The Balanced Scorecard of kaplan and Norton is a management tool that supports the successful implementation of corporate strategies. It has been discussed and considered widely in both practice and research. By linking operational and non-financial corporate activities with causal chains to the firm's long-term strategy, the Balanced Scorecard supports the alignment and management of all corporate activities according to their strategic relevance. The Balanced Scorecard makes it possible to take into account non-monetary strategic success factors that significantly impact the economic success of a business. The Balanced Scorecard is thus a promising starting-point to also incorporate environmental and social aspects into the main management system of a firm. Sustainability management with the Balanced Scorecard helps to overcome the shortcomings of conventional approaches to environmental and social management systems by integrating the three pillars of sustainability into a single and overarching strategic management tool. After a brief discussion of the different possible forms of a Sustainability Balanced Scorecard the article takes a closer look at the process and steps of formulating a Sustainability Balanced Scorecard for a business unit. Before doing so, the basic conventional approach of the Balanced Scorecard and its suitability for sustainability management will be outlined in brief.",
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author = "Frank Figge and Tobias Hahn and Stefan Schaltegger and Marcus Wagner",
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