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Corporate sustainability

About: Corporate sustainability is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3517 publications have been published within this topic receiving 94075 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the extent to which companies are setting organization-centric versus resilience-based environmental targets in their sustainability reports, and highlight the implications of setting such targets, along with the challenges of adopting resiliencebased targets.
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to explore the extent to which companies are setting organization‐centric versus resilience‐based environmental targets in their sustainability reports. We define ecological resilience through the planetary thresholds identified by the Planetary Boundaries (PB) framework. On this basis, we define resilience‐based targets as corporate environmental targets that are connected (quantitatively or qualitatively) to these thresholds. Sustainability reports issued by 50 sustainability leader firms in Canada were analyzed to identify environmental sustainability targets. These targets were classified as resilience‐based and organization‐centric based on their connection to the PB framework. A total of 303 targets were identified, distributed across eight different corporate performance areas. None of these targets was found to be quantitatively tied to any PB thresholds. A small number of targets did nevertheless make reference to the global/regional ecological processes that underpin some of the Boundaries. These targets made reference to only five of the nine Boundaries described by the framework. This study highlights the extent of organization‐centric environmental targets in corporate sustainability reports. The implications of setting such targets are discussed, along with the challenges of adopting resilience‐based targets. This study also discusses the reasons why companies may not be adopting a resilience‐based approach to set sustainability targets and measure performance, despite increasing calls from stakeholders to do so. On this basis, several recommendations are also provided for managers to guide resilience‐based target‐ and goal‐setting.

52 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take the corporate social responsibility from the viewpoint of a believing system, Christianity, in an attempt to bridge a gap in the existing literature and explore the Christians' social responsibilities and their relatedness to the corporate sustainability.
Abstract: Purpose – Engaging corporate social responsibility (CSR) is essential to attain corporate sustainability. This paper aims to take the CSR from the viewpoints of a believing system, Christianity in an attempt to bridge a gap in the existing literature.Design/methodology/approach – Through related literature reviews, research questions asked and grounding in the Christians' sacred text, the author seek to explore the Christians' social responsibilities and their relatedness to the CSR.Findings – This paper highlights the interlocking principles – honoring God, one's neighbor, God's creation, great commissions and eternality concept – that shape the Christians' fundamental approaches toward their social responsibilities. These collective faith driven principles would redefine the existing CSR conceptions in a refined form that the author call a faith‐based CSR.Practical implications – The paper discusses the applications of the faith‐based CSR in the areas of corporate philanthropy, environmental preservatio...

52 citations

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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, the strategic potential of sustainability as a concept for Human Resource Management (HRM) is discussed, and how HRM can cope with potential tensions arising from efforts to make organizations more sustainable.
Abstract: This conceptual chapter discusses the strategic potential of sustainability as a concept for Human Resource Management (HRM). Aligning sustainability to HRM allows thinking about new solutions to solve HR problems such as HR shortages, employee health or HR development, to foster the proactive role of HRM in developing sustainable business organizations or to extend the understanding of HRM performance. However, realizing efficient and effective as well as sustainable HRM systems may create paradoxical choice situations and tensions that need to be actively coped with. The objective of this chapter is to explain first how organizations and HRM have responded to tensions from a historical perspective, second, how HRM can cope with potential tensions arising from efforts to make organizations more sustainable.

52 citations

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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a literature review of the field of corporate sustainability (CS) as studied by management scholars, and provide a set of recommendations on how to advance the CS field.
Abstract: This literature review article aims to bring a better understanding to the field of corporate sustainability (CS) as studied by management scholars. The first part of this review quantifies the amount of research devoted to CS and related topics such as corporate social responsibility, corporate social performance, environmental strategies and environmental performance from 1995 through 2013. The authors then summarize the different definitions, organizational theories, and measures that have been adopted by management scholars working in the CS field in both academic and practitioner management journals. The results show that the CS field is still evolving and different approaches to define, theorize, and measure CS have been used. Differences are also found between the literature that targets scholars versus the one targeting practitioners. The authors also provide a set of recommendations on how to advance the CS field.

52 citations

01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the maturity levels of sustainability disclosure from a continuous improvement perspective and proposed an improvement framework for reporting and implementing sustainability initiatives across the supply chain, which would not only help researchers to study SCS and stakeholders to read sustainability reports, but would also enable practitioners to improve the quality and reliability of the data disclosed, especially as they apply to the supply-chain.
Abstract: Purpose – From a continuous improvement perspective, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the levels of maturity attained by organisations in reporting their supply chain (as well as non-supply chain) sustainability initiatives. It also investigates the extent to which supply chain sustainability (SCS) disclosure varies between different business sectors, as well as the degree of interconnection between various sustainability criteria. Subsequently, it proposes an improvement framework for reporting and implementing sustainability initiatives across the supply chain. Design/methodology/approach – To carry out this investigation, corporate sustainability reports of selected companies in ten different industries are downloaded and assessed. The paper uses content analysis and principal component analysis to study the disclosure maturity levels of the different industrial sectors. Findings – The paper’s results show that the disclosure maturity level is higher in business-toconsumer industries than in business-to-business industries on both the social and environmental dimensions. The paper also shows that the highly polluting energy sector is the least advanced in disclosing SCS initiatives. Generally speaking, there is no clear pattern in the way organisations disclose sustainability information. The conclusion is that sustainability disclosure is not yet homogeneously structured across different business sectors and organisations are yet to attain the “adult” maturity age. Originality/value – Very few researchers can claim to have investigated the maturity levels of SCS disclosure from a continuous improvement perspective. This is probably due to the absence of a universally accepted framework that clearly defines the scope of sustainability. The paper tries to fill this gap by proposing a framework that would not only help researchers to study SCS and stakeholders to read sustainability reports, but would also enable practitioners to improve the quality and reliability of the data disclosed, especially as they apply to the supply chain.

51 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023147
2022261
2021321
2020349
2019334
2018300