ABSTRACT

Corporate sustainability is a highly complex concept. This complexity is a challenge for managers who aim to assess the sustainability of their firm and on this basis improve it. This chapter disentangles different features of corporate sustainability such as sustainability governance, sustainability values and sustainability identity. Interrelations between these different features are analysed in order to provide an understanding of the preconditions for corporate sustainability performance. Such an understanding can help improve current methodologies for the assessment and management of corporate sustainability.