Understanding Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations
Implications for the Sustainability Service Industry
- 190 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Understanding Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations
Implications for the Sustainability Service Industry
About this book
This book sheds new light on the role businesses can play in contributing to sustainability objectives, and how governance actors can better encourage their contributions.
Jean-Pierre Imbrogiano introduces and empirically investigates the concept of sustainability performance in businesses, which reveals how achieving social and environmental objectives is experienced within business organizations. He focuses on supply chain management as a key part in this process and looks at how this has evolved to become a vital sector in the global business landscape. He further considers the current practices of governance actors which aim to enable sustainability performance in businesses. Labelled as a 'sustainability service industry', these actors include international, national, and industry sustainability initiatives, sustainability standard setters, business consultancies and rating agencies, as well as sustainable supply chain managers in corporations. Overall, this book calls for a conceptual reorientation in business sustainability scholarship, and points towards a challenging agenda for change in the sustainability service industry.
Understanding Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable business, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, sustainable supply chain management, and sustainability governance.
Frequently asked questions
- Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
- Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Information
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Why Understanding Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations is a Prerequisite to Addressing the Grand Challenges of Our Time
- 2. Contingency in Business Sustainability Research and in the Sustainability Service Industry: A Problematization and Research Agenda
- 3. Research Background: The Sustainability Service Industry, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, and the Governance of the Value Chain ‘From Mine to Car’
- 4. An Interpretative Approach to Research Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations
- 5. Five Different Ways in which Sustainability Performance Occurs in Business Organizations
- 6. Toward a Theory of Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations
- 7. Implications for the Sustainability Service Industry
- 8. Where to From Here?
- Index