The UN's Sustainable Development Goals in their generalized form need to be further reflected in order to identify synergies and trade-offs between their (sub-)targets, and to apply them to concrete nations and regions. Explorative, qualitative cause and effect modeling could serve as a tool for...

1. Introduction -- Part I. Companies as agents of change in the development of CSR and the achievement of sustainability goals. A private sector perspective -- 2. The Systemic Contexts and Dynamic Trajectories of Corporate Social Responsibility in Chinese Automobile Industry -- 3. Corporate...

This open access book is a compact guide to the development of sustainable business, which has become the central concept in discussions about the future development of humanity and planet earth. It provides basic terminology and concepts on sustainable business and offers insights into a new...

Chapter 1. A Brief History of Corporate Sustainability: A conversation with John Elkington -- Chapter 2. The United Nation Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter 3. Human Rights in the Supply Chain -- Chapter 4. Sustainable Business Transformation – A Renewable Energy Example -- Chapter 5....