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Sustainability aims at a responsible use of natural resources and the environment as well as at shaping corporate … relations and restructuring the constitution of the firm. As such, sustainability is commonly and successfully used by small …, medium as well as large enterprises. Enterprises that turn sustainability into a strategic business goal, going beyond legal …
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Globalization and increased competition are forcing companies to review and improve their production processes to be more sustainable. However, a clear vision and environmental culture are lacking because, even today, companies are motivated to act to improve the environment essentially by...
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Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …
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The globally generated concepts of environment and sustainability are fast gaining currency in international business … discourse. Sustainability concerns are concurrently becoming significant to business planning around corporate social … key factor in determining company approaches to sustainability. But what do corporate managers understand by …
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This study focuses on the prediction of the engagement of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in environmental management practices, based on a random sample of 689 SMEs. The study finds that several endogenous factors, including tangibility of sector, firm size, innovative orientation,...
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This article presents the theme of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a subject of great interest for the management of organizations and for the scientific research. In the last decade, concerns regarding the advanteges of a social responsible behaviour have increased not only for large...
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“institutional entrepreneurs” (WBCSD and SustainAbility), who have contributed along towards the institutionalization of big …
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Die Studie „Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement“ betrachtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltaspekten und Unternehmenswert … Environmental Shareholder Value auf und zeigt, wie betriebliches Umweltmanagement positiv auf die Werttreiber des Shareholder Value … betriebliche Umweltmanagement sicherstellen muss, dass Unternehmen auf zukünftige „ökologische“ Herausforderungen reagieren können …
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In order for policy makers to plan effectively for sustainable development, there is a need for measures of welfare that consider changes in the natural capital stock. Current measures based on conventional national accounting are flawed because they are based solely on flow measures and do not...
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