Handbook of sustainability-driven business strategies in practice
edited by Stefan Markovic (Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark), Cristina Sancha (Associate Professor, Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences, ESADE Business School, Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain), Adam Lindgreen (Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Extraordinary Professor, Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Contents: Preface -- Part 1 defining a sustainability-driven business strategy -- 1. Developing a sustainability strategic agenda / François Maon, Adam Lindgreen and Valérie Swaen -- 2. Corporate foundations as vehicles for sustainable development: How do corporate foundations work with parent companies to achieve sustainability? / Pilar Acosta -- 3. Materiality analysis as the basis for sustainability strategies and reporting - a systematic review of approaches and recommendations for practice / Sophia Schwoy and Andreas Dutzi -- 4. Defining a sustainability-driven business modeling strategy with a "storytelling science" approach / David M. Boje and Mohammad B. Rana -- Part 2 Sustainability-driven business strategies in marketing -- 5. Corporate responsibility as an effective marketing practice for improving consumers' brand evaluations - critical overview, new insights, and future directions / Ilona Szőcs and Milena Micevski -- 6. Promises, promises: How to showcase the authenticity of sustainability claims through digitalization / Nicholas Ind and Oriol Iglesias -- 7. Interactive network branding: Towards a sustainability-driven strategy of small and medium-sized enterprises / Nikolina Koporcic and Jan-Åke Törnroos -- 8. How does brand-cause fit influence the success of crm campaigns? / Inês Padilha Campelos, Susana Costa e Silva and Joana César Machado -- Part 3 Sustainability-driven business strategies in innovation and entrepreneurship -- 9. Business model innovation for sustainability: The intersections among business models, innovation, and sustainability / Stefan Markovic and Karin Tollin -- 10. Social challenges within sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems / Roberto Hernandez-Chea, Maral Mahdad and Minh Thai -- 11. The UN global compact sdg action manager: How benefit corporations and purpose-driven businesses are driving the change / Giorgia Nigri, Armando Agulini and Mara Del Baldo -- Part 4 Sustainability-driven business strategies in operations and information systems -- 12. Smes, environmental sustainability and waste management: A comparative empirical study of Spain and chile / Francisco Villegas Pinuer, Joan Llonch Andreu and Pilar López Belbeze -- 13. Adoption of environmental management systems: Perspectives from uk, Finland and thailand / David B. Grant, Sarah Shaw, Siriwan Chaisurayakarn and Alex Nikolai Shenin -- 14. The role of purchasing in the diffusion of sustainability in supply networks / Thomas E. Johnsen, Federico Caniato and Toloue Miandar -- 15. Sustainability assessment in the food supply chain / Verónica León-Bravo and Federico Caniato -- 16. Sustainable data management / Sreyaa Guha and Polina Landgraf -- Part 5 Sustainability-driven business strategies in finance and accounting -- 17. Do csr reports impact firms' stock returns? A pilot study analysis / Andreas Dutzi, Julian Schröter and Eshari Withanage -- 18. An analysis of business actions in private social reporting / Natalia Semenova -- 19. How environment, social and governance scores impact company financial performance indicators: Evidence from Denmark / Slobodan Kacanski -- 20. The role of the internal audit function in fostering sustainability reporting / Mara Del Baldo, Selena Aureli and Rosa Lombardi -- Part 6 Sustainability-driven business strategies in human resources -- 21. Sustainability-driven hrm: The what, the what for and the how / Rosalía Cascón-Pereira, Tahereh Maghsoudi and Ana Beatriz Hernández-Lara -- 22. The role of human resource management function in the institutionalization of sustainability: The case study of the dutch hotel industry / Andrew Ngawenja Mzembe -- 23. Profits with purpose: Corporate and entrepreneurial toxic leadership and threats to organizational sustainability / David Coldwell and Robert Venter -- Part 7 Sustainability-driven business strategies across functional areas in an organization -- 24. Cross-functional integration in sustainability-driven business practice / Duane Windsor -- 25. Strategic alignment of purchasing for sustainability: A multi-level framework / Melek Akın Ateş and Nüfer Yasin Ateş -- 26. Purchasing and marketing of social and environmental sustainability in high-tech medical equipment / Adam Lindgreen, Michael Antioco, David Harness and Remi van der Sloot -- Part 8 Case studies on sustainability-driven business strategies -- 27. Ecoalf: A brand with a conscience / Nicholas Ind -- 28. Sustainability as strategy: The case of comwell hotels / Kristian J. Sund and Rasmus Downes-Rasmussen -- 29. Boat trip adventure changing the lives of thousands: The story of song saa private island / Ilia Gugenishvili and Nikolina Koporcic -- 30. Doing business the sustainable 'novo nordisk way' / Marija Sarafinovska and Yuqian Qiu -- 31. Sustainability in the chemical industry through an industrial spin-off: The case of apricot / Miguel Saiz García -- Index.
