This ground-breaking Handbook uniquely focuses on the business of sustainability, offering a fresh insight and practical solutions to the challenges that businesses face in making human activity sustainable. It is organized into four distinctive themes that cut across levels of analysis and illustrate a rich set of solution contexts that will guide future research.
The Handbook on the Business of Sustainability offers a comprehensive review of research and empirical evidence on sustainable business, exploring the importance of private sector engagement and implementation. World leading scholars cover the key areas such as organization, execution and the measurement of outcomes and social impact. The insightful case studies also provide critical context and complement the chapters highlighting emerging practices and solutions for the successful application of sustainability initiatives in business.
The Handbook will be an invaluable resource for academics, practitioners, and policymakers to reflect on the ‘concept and practice’ of articulating and strategizing in order to achieve sustainability targets.
Author(s): Gerard George, Martine R. Haas, Havovi Joshi, Anita M. McGahan, Paul Tracey
Series: Research Handbooks in Business and Management
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 606
City: Cheltenham
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
PART I INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction to the business of sustainability: an organizing framework for theory, practice and impact
PART II ORGANIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
2. Purpose-driven companies and sustainability
3. Legitimacy judgments and prosociality: organizational purpose explained
4. Stakeholder governance: aligning stakeholder interests on complex sustainability issues
5. Entrepreneurship, sustainability, and stakeholder theory
6. Firm-NGO collaborations for sustainability: a comparative research agenda
7. Partnerships and place: the role of community enterprise in cross-sector work for sustainability
PART III IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
8. Organizational culture for sustainability
9. Paradoxical tensions in business sustainability: how corporations develop sustainable ventures
10. Gender equality in organizations: the dynamics of space
11. Sustainability for people and the planet: placing workers at the center of sustainability research
12. Sustainability science and corporate cleanup in community fields: the translation, resistance and integration process model
13. Entrepreneurs as essential but missing actors in the Sustainable Development Goals
14. Sustainable entrepreneurship under market uncertainty: opportunities, challenges and impact
PART IV SUSTAINABILITY-IN-PRACTICE
15. Towards a more sustainable cement and concrete industry
16. Understanding firm- and field-level change toward sustainable development: insights from the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines, 1960-2020
17. Can businesses truly create shared value? A healthcare case study of value creation and appropriation
18. Increasing employment pathways for returning citizens in Washington, DC: the Georgetown University Pivot Program
19. Conflicting institutional logics as a safe space for collaboration: action research in a reforestation NGO
20. Smart cities: a review of managerial challenges and a framework for future research
21. A road to preserving biodiversity: understanding psychological demand drivers of illegal wildlife products
22. Transition finance: a new framework for managing funding to carbon-intensive firms
PART V MEASURING OUTCOMES AND SOCIAL IMPACT
23. Impact assessment and measurement with sustainable development goals
24. Becoming a generalized specialist: a strategic model for increasing your organization’s SDG impact while minimizing externalities
25. Impact measurement tools and social value creation: a strategic perspective
26. Creating and distributing sustainable value through public-private collaborative projects
27. Scaling up collaboration for social impact: the governance and design of corporate-non profit partnerships
28. Addressing the market failures of environmental health products
29. When money fails to talk: unintended consequences of using monetary incentives to elicit sustainable behaviours
30. Greenwashing through compliance to renewable portfolio standards
Index
