ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the corporate sustainability assessment framework. It establishes a clearer sequence of sustainability practices from an empirical basis. The chapter looks at establishing a clearer sequence of sustainability practices from an empirical basis. This includes adjusting the ordering and connections between individual sustainability activities seen within the corporate sector. Four distinct stages emerge from this, including: issue identification and prioritisation stage, impact analysis, monitoring and evaluation stage, alternative selection stage and feedback and follow up stage. Within these stages, the chapter synthesises the activities of the corporate sector, drawing on the identified World Class practices. A recurring theme was the importance of first considering basic business acumen and business fundamentals. Organisations often emphasised that an evaluation of the potential host country would include determining whether they could continue doing business in line with their International Practices - highlighting the tendency of the top performing organisations to approach their operations.
