Corporate sustainability

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

Corporate social responsibility in tourism and hospitality

Abstract: The past decade has seen significant growth in the tourism and hospitality literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Indeed, over 70% of the articles on this topic have been published in the past five years. Through the application of a stakeholder lens, this paper explores how CSR has developed within the extant literature, paying particular attention to current gaps and highlighting the contributions of the research in this special issue. This emerging research on CSR in the context of tourism and hospitality is pushing past the boundaries of early approaches to corporate sustainability by providing empirical evidence to support the importance of integrating a range of stakeholder perspectives and needs throughout the planning, implementation, and evaluation of CSR initiatives. We observe that while there is ample research on certain stakeholder groups such as management, employees, shareholders, and consumers, there is less emphasis on the role of communities and ecosystems as stakeholders and very little related to suppliers, NGOs, and government. Although tourism and hospitality firms may not be subject to the same pressures as other industries, there remain important opportunities to both document and engage these external stakeholders in the journey towards sustainability.

Key Concepts in Corporate Social Responsibility

Abstract: Agency Theory Business at the Bottom of the Pyramid Business Case for CSR Business Ethics Business Networks Civil Society Codes of Conduct Community Relations Complexity Theory Corporate Accountability Corporate Citizenship Corporate Responsibility Reporting Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate Sustainability Corporate Sustainability Strategies Eco-Efficiency Employee Engagement Employee Health and Safety Environmental Discourses Environmental Policy Tools Ethical Consumerism Fair Trade Globalization Governance Green Marketing Greenwash Human Rights Intergenerational Equity Intragenerational Equity NGOs Performance Evaluation and Measurement Philanthropy Pollution and Waste Management Post-Colonialism Product Stewardship Resource-Based View Responsible Leadership Risk Management Social and Societal Marketing Social Capital Social Entrepreneurship Social Partnerships Socially Responsible Investment Stakeholder Theory Stewardship Sustainable Development Sweatshops Systems Approaches Triple Bottom Line Voluntary Regulation

Working with passion: Emotionology, corporate environmentalism and climate change

Abstract: In responding to climate change, organizations navigate in an increasingly volatile emotional milieu in which feelings of fear, anxiety, hostility and anger shape public debate. In this article, we explore how corporations have responded to the broader ‘emotionology’ surrounding climate change. Our focus is on the role of corporate sustainability specialists as intermediaries, or ‘emotionology workers’, acting between broader social debates and local organizational contexts. Through analysis of interview and documentary data from major Australian corporations we explore both the activities of these individuals in translating and shaping climate change emotionology within their organizations, and how they manage their own emotionality in this work. We find that sustainability professionals are key agents in the design and implementation of a positive emotionology of climate change as a challenge and opportunity for corporate action. However, these activities result in tensions and contradictions for these ...

Corporate sustainability – integrating environmental and social concerns?

Abstract: This article presents a case of the early stages of an attempted integration of environmental management and corporate responsibility in a UK utility company, which may, in due course, develop into a more holistic orientation towards corporate sustainability. The company had made some deliberate attempts to link environmental and social responsibility issues. However, this integration was partial and contested within the company. The case shows that dealing with environmental soundness and starting to integrate environmental and social issues and management need not be a sequential process. Institutional and wider social factors are shown to play a strong role in influencing company thinking and actions in this area, seemingly sending rather mixed signals in this case. The case also highlights the role of sustainability champions in making links between the organization's business purpose, its environmental performance and its social responsibility in terms of the long term sustainability of the region and the company's future. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.