ABSTRACT
Business Strategies for Sustainability brings together important research contributions that demonstrate different approaches to business strategies for sustainability. Many corporate initiatives toward what firms perceive to be sustainability are simply efficiency drives or competitive moves – falling far short of actual strategies for ecological sustainability.
To suggest true ecological sustainability strategies, this new research anthology adopts an interdisciplinary, or transdisciplinary, approach to discern what business strategies might look like if they were underpinned by environmental and ecological science.
The 23 chapters in this anthology reflect five main topic sections: (a) delineating sustainability challenges and visions; (b) contradiction, integration and transformation of business and sustainability logics; (c) innovating and developing strategic capabilities for sustainability; (d) assessing and valuing sustainability; and (e) toward multi-level engagement and collaboration.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|80 pages
Delineating sustainability challenges and visions
chapter 4|16 pages
Creating theory for business strategies for sustainability and climate change
part II|82 pages
Contradiction, integration and transformation of business and sustainability logics
chapter 5|17 pages
What we know about business strategies for sustainability
chapter 7|15 pages
Is customer-centric sustainability an element of marketing strategy?
part III|84 pages
Innovating and developing strategic capabilities for sustainability
part IV|88 pages
Assessing and valuing sustainability
chapter 16|14 pages
The value relevance of carbon disclosure strategies
chapter 18|11 pages
Promoting sustainability through corporate social responsibility
part V|82 pages
Towards multi-level engagement and collaboration
