About the authors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Market behaviour, stakeholders : approach and good governance -- Agency theory : explaining or creating problems? good governance and ethical behaviour for sustainable business / Guler Aras and Paul Williams -- Using a stakeholder approach to...

Many academics have highlighted the emergence of programmed change initiatives such as TQM and BPR and have chronicled how “seductive” these ideas appear to have been in the corporate world. Moreover, a burgeoning consultancy industry has emerged, with management consultants fuelling the...

Introduction -- Managing your development as a manager -- Introduction to research in management -- Management consultancy and research -- The consultancy research process -- An overview of data collection : approaches, methods, and techniques -- Data collection : secondary data -- Data...

1. Introduction : why sustainability matters -- 2. Defining sustainability -- 3. Managing risk -- 4. Governance and sustainable performance -- 5. Implications of the size and sector of a firm -- 6. Satisfying stakeholders : distributing effects -- 7. External verification : audit and rating...