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The article was published on 1997-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1036 citations till now.

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Concepts and definitions of CSR and corporate sustainability: Between agency and communion

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the contemporary debate on the concepts and definitions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Sustainability (CS), and conclude that "one solution fits all"-definition for CS(R) should be abandoned, accepting various and more specific definitions matching the development, awareness and ambition levels of organizations.
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Creating sustainable value

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a sustainable-value framework that links the challenges of global sustainability to the creation of shareholder value by the firm and show how the global challenges associated with sustainable development, viewed through the appropriate set of business lenses, can help to identify strategies and practices that contribute to a more sustainable world while s...
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Sustainable construction--the role of environmental assessment tools.

TL;DR: The main objectives of this paper are to examine the development, role and limitations of current environmental building assessment methods in ascertaining building sustainability in different countries and to discuss the concept of developing a sustainability model for project appraisal based on a multi-dimensional approach that will allow alternatives to be ranked.
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Sustainability‐oriented Innovation: A Systematic Review

TL;DR: In this article, a review of 100 scholarly articles and 27 grey sources drawn from the period of the three Earth Summits (1992, 2002 and 2012), the authors address four specific deficiencies that have given rise to these limitations: the meaning of SOI, how it has been conceptualized, its treatment as a dichotomous phenomenon and a general failure to reflect more contemporary practices.
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A Positive Theory of Social Entrepreneurship

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a theory aimed at advancing scholarly research in social entrepreneurship by highlighting the key trade-off between value creation and value appropriation and explaining when situations of simultaneous market and government failure may arise.