List of cases, figures, and tables -- Foreword from the first edition / John Elkington, SustainAbility -- Foreword from the first edition / Herman B. Dutch Leonard, Harvard Business School -- Preface -- Introduction: improving sustainability and financial performance in global corporations --...

Recent work on business strategy considers the evaluation of company performance using frontier methods (Devinney et al., forthcoming). The present paper builds on that work to examine the extent to which company performance in one period impacts on business practices and hence performance in...