Corporate sustainability

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

Towards a Conceptual Model of the Relationship between Corporate Trust and Corporate Reputation

Abstract: This paper challenges three key contentions in current theory regarding the relationship between corporate trust and corporate reputation. The first contention being challenged is that corporate trust plays less of a critical role in the sustained success and survival of an organisation than corporate reputation does. The second contention challenged is that, when the role of corporate trust in relation to corporate reputation is recognised, it is regarded as an antecedent of corporate reputation. This latter contention suggests that much of the current understanding of the role of the corporate trust construct is superficial and that the use of and differentiation between the corporate trust and trustworthiness constructs in relation to corporate reputation are blurred and indistinct. The third contention this paper challenges relates to the more generally accepted antecedents of corporate reputation, where current theory either does not include corporate trustworthiness as an antecedent or where it incorrectly includes corporate trust (viz-a-viz trustworthiness) as an antecedent to corporate reputation. This paper introduces a conceptualisation of corporate trust, in relation to corporate reputation, within a broader framework of corporate sustainability. We propose a conceptual model illustrating the relationship between corporate trust and corporate reputation. Where trust is usually regarded as an attribute or antecedent of reputation, our model suggests an inverse direction to this relationship, namely that corporate trust is an outcome of corporate reputation.

Corporate sustainability as a challenge for comprehensive management

Abstract: Corporate Sustainability as a Challenge for Comprehensive Management.- Human Factors, Business Excellence and Corporate Sustainability: Differing Perspectives, Joint Objectives.- Comprehensive Management Concepts and Sustainable Excellence.- Performance Excellence: Path to Integrated Management and Sustainable Success.- Developing Sustainable Competitive Advantage through Operational Excellence and Adaptation Excellence with Value-Innovations.- Sustainable Improvement: Six Sigma - Lessons Learned after Five Years of Training and Consulting.- A Strategy for Building Sustainable Innovation Excellence - A Danish Study.- The Impact of Cultural Issues and Interpersonal Behavior on Sustainable Excellence and Competitiveness: An Analysis of the Italian Context.- Human Factors in Organizational Design and Management - Creating Sustainability.- Building Sustainable Human-Centered Systems: A Grand Challenge for the Human Factors and Ergonomics Discipline in the Conceptual Age.- Achieving Sustainability through Macroergonomic Change Management and Participation.- Continuous Technology Implementation and Sustainability of Sociotechnical Change: A Case Study of Advanced Intravenous Infusion Pump Technology Implementation in a Hospital.- The Influence of Project Duration and Focus on Involvement in Participatory Processes.- The Role of Ergonomics in Securing Sustainability in Developing Countries.- Participation as Precondition for Sustainable Success: Effective Workplace Improvement Procedures in Small-scale Sectors in Developing Countries.- The Future of Work in a Sustainable Society.- Sustainability as Challenge for Human Factors and Integrated Management Systems.- Social Responsibility, Strategic Management and Comprehensive Corporate Development: Old Roots, New Issues?.- Human Factors and Comprehensive Management Concepts: A Need for Integration Based on Corporate Sustainability.

Board involvement in corporate sustainability reporting: evidence from Sri Lanka

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the role played by the board of directors in corporate sustainability (CS) disclosure within the Asian context in which sustainability reporting (SR) is an emerging phenomenon.,Data are collected from a sample of 100 listed Sri Lankan companies over a period of four years (2012-2016), representing practically all the business sectors. This study draws on both agency and resource dependence theories, while binary logistic regression is performed for the data analysis.,The results point out that firms that follow a sustainability disclosure policy have larger boards, a higher proportion of independent directors and more female directors. Contrary to certain common assumptions, firms that practice sustainability disclosure are not influenced by dual leadership, board ethnicity and board ownership. This study helps firms to understand whether their boards can influence the sustainability disclosure choice or not and further, to validate the appropriateness of the agency theory and the resource dependence theory for examining issues of this nature.,This study contributes significantly to the extant literature on this subject by broadening the geographical coverage, which has generally been limited to the West in corporate disclosure studies.

Corporate Sustainability Management: The Art and Science of Managing Non-Financial Performance

Abstract: Businesses around the world are increasingly turning to an exciting new branch of management known as corporate sustainability management (CSM) to help them better understand and manage their non-financial performance. Indeed, what we are witnessing is nothing less than the birth of a new management function. The main pillar of CSM is the Triple Bottom Line (TBL), which has been successful as an organizing principle but a disappointment in practice. This is largely due to the absence of 'sustainability context' in related measurement, management and reporting efforts, when for example the monitoring of a company's use of freshwater resources fails to take into account the size of related supplies. This book is the first to introduce a systematic means of including context in sustainability management and doing effective CSM. After making the case for why context matters, the book explains how to do context-based CSM by providing a stepwise, cyclical blueprint for how to practice it in any organization. This includes a template for context-based metrics compatible with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), as well as specific examples of metrics for each of the triple bottom lines. Practical examples of best practices are presented throughout, while simultaneously addressing key issues, such as how organizations can measure performance against context-based standards when consensus for such standards does not yet exist. Appendices include tools for developing and applying context-based metrics, as well as case studies taken from the practice of context-based CSM at two companies in the United States. This guide is the essential tool for business and organizational leaders in all sectors committed to improving their sustainability performance, with a particular emphasis on measurement, management and reporting.