Managing the Business Case for Sustainability

The Integration of Social, Environmental and Economic Performance
Herausgeber: Wagner, Marcus; Schaltegger, Stefan

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Produktbeschreibung

Compiles insights on a number of aspects linking sustainability performance, business competitiveness and economic success, in an attempt to provide a comprehensive view of this relationship. This work is useful for managers, academics, consultants, fund managers, governments and government agencies, NGOs and international bodies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 626
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1082g
• ISBN-13: 9781874719953
• ISBN-10: 1874719950
• Artikelnr.: 37000806

Autorenporträt

Schaltegger, Stefan; Wagner, Marcus

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword John Elkington
Founder and Chief Entrepreneur
SustainAbility Foreword Peter Forstmoser
CEO
Swiss Re Introduction. Managing and Measuring the Business Case for Sustainability. Capturing the Relationship between Sustainability Performance
Business Competitiveness and Economic Performance Stefan Schaltegger
Centre for Sustainability Management
University of Lüneburg
Germany
and Marcus Wagner
Dr Theo Schöller Chair in Technology and Innovation Management
Technische Universität München and Centre for Sustainability Management
Universi Part 1. Theory - conceptual approaches 1. The link between environmental and economic performance Environmental and Economic Performance: The Basic Links Leena Lankoski
Helsinki University
Finland How Can Environmental Management Contribute to Shareholder Value? The Environmental Shareholder Value Approach Stefan Schaltegger
Centre for Sustainability Management
University of Lüneburg
Germany 2. Social performance and economic success Do Social Objectives Integrate with Core Corporate Objectives? The Future of Social Auditing Trevor Goddard
Curtin University of Technology
Australia Social Performance and Competitiveness: A Socio-Competitive Framework Kuno Spirig
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Winterthur
Switzerland 3. Integrative approaches Mapping the Links of Corporate Sustainability: Sustainability Balanced Scorecards as a Tool for Sustainability Performance Measurement and Management Marcus Wagner
Dr Theo Schöller Chair in Technology and Innovation Management
Technische Universität München and Centre for Sustainability Management
University of Lüneburg
Germany
and Stefan Schaltegger
Centre for Sustainability Management
Universi A Model of Financial Analysis at the Service of Sustainability Juan Piñeiro Chousa and Noelia Romero Castro
Department of Finance and Accounting
University of Santiago de Compostela
Spain Sustainable Value Added: A New Approach to Measuring Corporate Sustainable Performance Frank Figge
School of the Environment
University of Leeds
UK
and Tobias Hahn
Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment
IZT
Germany Sustainable Analysis of Industrial Operations: A Proof of Concept Demonstration Study Sonja Lynn Odom
Laboratory for Sustainable Solutions
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of South Carolina
USA Part II. Empirical surveys - financial markets; industry and country surveys 4. Views from the financial markets The Economic Performance of European Stock Corporations: Does Sustainability Matter? Klaus Rennings
Michael Schröder and Andreas Ziegler
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
Germany Capital Markets and Corporate Environmental Performance: Research in the United States Dinah A. Koehler
Economics and Decision Sciences Research
National Center for Environmental Research
US Environmental Protection Agency
USA Sustainable Investment and Financial Performance: Does Sustainability Compromise the Financial Performance of Companies and Investment Funds? Eckhard Plinke and Andreas Knörzer
Sarasin Sustainability Investments
Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd
Basel
Switzerland Benchmarking Competitiveness and Management Quality with the Dow Jones Sustainability Index: The Case of the Automotive Industry and Climate Change Niki Rosinski
Sustainable Asset Management (SAM)
Zurich
Switzerland 5. Industry surveys Have Trends in Corporate Environmental Management Influenced Companies' Competitiveness? Henning Madsen and John P. Ulhøi
The Aarhus School of Business
Denmark Competitiveness
Environmental Performance and Management of SMEs David Hitchens
Queen's University Belfast
UK
Jens Clausen
IÖW
Germany
Mary Trainor
Queen's University Belfast
UK
Michael Keil
IÖW
Germany
and Samarthia Thankappan
Cardiff University
UK IPPC and the Impact of Best Available Techniques (BAT) on the Competitiveness of European Industry: Survey of the European Non-Ferrous Metals Industry David Hitchens
School of Management and Economics
Queen's University Belfast
Northern Ireland
Frank Farrell
Environment Agency
Bristol
UK
Josefina Lindblom
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
Seville
Spain
and Ursula Triebsw 6. Country surveys The Mutual Relationship between the Environmental Context and Management in the Netherlands Ronald S. Batenburg
Department of Information Sciences
Utrecht University
the Netherlands The Norwegian Environmental Business Barometer Bjarne E. Ytterhus
Norwegian School of Management (BI)
Sandvika
Norway Sustainability Performance of Countries: Based on the Example of Oekom Research AG's Country Rating Matthias Bönning
Oekom Research
Munich
Germany Does a Nation's Ecological Performance Affect its Economic Stability? The Potential for Enhancing Sovereign Credit Risk Assessments with Ecological Resource Accounts Mathis Wackernagel
Global Footprint Network
Oakland
CA
USA
Chris Martiniak
Global Footprint Network
Oakland
CA
USA
and University of Michigan Business School
USA
Fred Wellington
World Resources Institute
Sustainable Enterprise Program
and formerly Environmental Management Program
University of San Francisco
USA
Chad Monfreda
Sustainability and Global Environment Program
University of Wisconsin
Madison
USA
and Steve Goldfinger
Justin Kitzes and Deborah Cheng
Global Footprint Network
Oakland
CA
USA
Part III. Evidence - strategies
case studies and management systems 7. Strategies and the business case for sustainability Achieving Sustainable Corporate Competitiveness: Strategic Link between Top Management's (Green) Commitment and Corporate Environmental Strategy Ki-Hoon Lee
KwangWoon University
Korea
and Robert Ball
University of Stirling
UK Ecopreneurship and Competitive Strategies: Striving for Market Leadership by Promoting Sustainability Holger Petersen
Umweltbank Nürnberg and Centre for Sustainability Management
University of Lüneburg
Germany Building a Business Case for Corporate Sustainability Ulrich Steger
Institute for Management Development (IMD)
Lausanne
Switzerland Developing Value: The Business Case for Sustainability in Emerging Markets Jodie Thorpe and Kavita Prakash-Mani
SustainAbility
UK 8. Company cases Managing Sustainability Performance in the Textile Chain Stefan Seuring and Maria Goldbach
Supply Chain Management Centre
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Germany Sustainability and Competitiveness in the Renewable Energy Sector: The Case of Vestas Wind Systems Rolf Wüstenhagen
Institute for Economy and the Environment
Switzerland Path-Dependent Thinking and Ecoproducts: An Empirical Study of Socio-Cognitive Models and Product Propositions of Ford and Volvo Cars Mats Williander
Fenix Centre for Research on Knowledge and Business Creation
Chalmers University of Technology
Sweden Honda and Toyota: Using Sustainability in a New Competitive Battleground Peter A. Stanwick and Sarah D. Stanwick
Department of Management and School of Accountancy
College of Business
Auburn University
USA Incremental Change towards Sustainanbility: Integrating Human and Ecological Factors for Efficiency Suzanne Benn
School of Management
University of Technology
Sydney
Australia
and E. Jane Probert
European Business Management School
University of Wales Swansea
Swansea
UK 9. Environmental management systems and competitiveness ISO 14001: Profitable? Yes! But is it eco-effective? Jost Hamschmidt and Thomas Dyllick
University of St Gallen
Switzerland What Makes Environmental Management Systems Successful? An Empirical Study in the German Manufacturing Sector Boris Braun
Department of Geography
Otto-Friedrich-University
Bamberg
Germany