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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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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: Wagner et al. as discussed by the authors proposed value-oriented corporate sustainability management with the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard, which helps to overcome the shortcomings of conventional approaches to environmental and social management systems by integrating three pillars of sustainability into a single and overarching management tool.
Abstract: Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard is a management tool that supports the successful implementation of corporate strategies. It has been discussed and considered widely both in practice and research. By linking operational and non-financial corporate activities with causal chains to the firm’s long-term strategy the Balanced Scorecard supports the alignment and management of all corporate activities according to their strategic relevance. The Balanced Scorecard makes it possible to take into account non-monetary strategic success factors which significantly impact the economic success of a business. It is thus a promising starting-point to also incorporate environmental and social aspects into the main management system of a firm. This paper proposes for value-oriented corporate sustainability management with the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard. This helps to overcome the shortcomings of conventional approaches to environmental and social management systems by integrating the three pillars of sustainability into a single and overarching management tool. A Sustainability Balanced Scorecard shows the causal relation between the economic, environmental, and social performance of firms. On the one side this paper discusses the different possible forms of a Sustainability Balanced Scorecard from a conceptual point of view. On the other side it shows the process and steps of formulating a Sustainability Balanced Scorecard for a fictitious company in practice based on the experience of a major joint research project in Germany and Switzerland. 1 Corresponding author: Marcus Wagner, e-mail: mwagner@uni-lueneburg.de. The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard – Theory and Application of a Tool for Value-Based Sustainability Management

25 citations

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01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a capability maturity model that allows organizations to determine their current PPM maturity level and to identify required improvements regarding their process performance, based on a quantitative, questionnaire-based approach, the Rasch algorithm.
Abstract: Sustainability is among the key issues that organisations face today. Sustainability is frequently defined as economic activity that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. Despite being intensely discussed, however, the concept of sustainability is not as clear cut as is commonly believed. Likewise, neither kind nor scope of the capabilities organisations need to develop in order to become truly sustainable are currently well understood. This chapter proposes that process performance management (PPM) is a vital approach that organisations can use to address their sustainability concerns. Using a quantitative, questionnaire-based approach, the Rasch algorithm, we develop a capability maturity model that allows organisations to determine their current PPM maturity level and to identify required improvements regarding their process performance. The chapter concludes with a detailed discussion of the use of PPM to incorporate corporate sustainability in day-to-day operations.

25 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the guiding pillars of CS management are identified through a literature review using content analysis of the 30 most cited articles from 2007 to 2017, which are grouped into six pillars related to corporate sustainability strategy, corporate governance, human resources management, knowledge and innovation management, measurement, disclosure, and independent assurance, and management systems, and integrated management systems.
Abstract: Corporate sustainability (CS) literature has gone through a period of intense development. The moment is favorable to gather these contributions to consistently advance the state-of-the-art in CS and, also, discuss them in application to real contexts. The main objective of the paper is to systematize, through a literature review using content analysis of the 30 most cited articles from 2007 to 2017, the guiding pillars of CS management. A systematic search for papers was carried out in Scopus and Web of Science, and the initial screening of the papers was assisted by the coding software, MAXQDA 2018, through which the authors structured and analyzed their main insights, contributions, and conclusions. After getting acquainted with the sample, an in-depth reading of the texts was conducted and 60 CS elements were identified. The elements cited in the relevant literature were grouped into six pillars related to corporate sustainability strategy, corporate governance, human resources management, knowledge and innovation management, measurement, disclosure, and independent assurance, and management systems, and integrated management systems. The main contribution of this paper is to identify the management pillars of CS in a systematic way to consistently advance the state-of-the-art in the subject. Also, this study provides understanding to managers on the main aspects that make up the integration of this construct in the companies.

25 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the obstacles to implementing sustainable practices and ways those obstacles can be overcome, drawing on first-hand experience with projects gone awry at Aspen Skiing Company and elsewhere in Colorado and in the ski industry.

25 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the uses and characteristics of environmental and managerial information for cleaner production (CP) strategies to achieve corporate sustainability from an environmental management development perspective based on a development stage model, an analytical framework was developed to identify the organizational uses and dimension characteristics of information for three different CP strategies, namely, efficiency, consistency and sufficiency.

25 citations


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