The mainstream of the literature on corporate sustainability follows the win-win paradigm according to which economic, environmental and social sustainability aspects can be achieved simultaneously; indeed corporate sustainability has often been defined by the intersection of these three areas....

In this paper, we propose the return-to-cost-ratio (RCR) as an alternative approach to the analysis of operational eco-efficiency of companies based on the notion of opportunity costs. RCR helps to overcome two fundamental deficits of existing approaches to eco-efficiency. (1) It translates...

Corporate sustainability confronts managers with complex issues and tensions between economic, environmental and social aspects. Drawing on the literature on managerial cognition, corporate sustainability, and strategic paradoxes, we develop a cognitive framing perspective on corporate...

1 Einleitung -- 2 Unternehmen als wirtschaftliche Akteure im gesellschaftlichen Kontext -- 2.1 Zielausrichtung von Unternehmen -- 2.2 Umfeldbezug von Unternehmen -- 2.3 Akteursbezug von Unternehmen -- 2.4 Gesellschaftliche Stakeholder und ihre Ansprüche an Unternehmen -- 3 Relevanz...