Many companies are now attempting to achieve triple bottom line performance on financial, environmental and societal metrics. Successful strategies for such performance, however, generally require new relationships among multiple players in multiple sectors across a company's supply chain for...

Management and disclosure of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have received substantial interest over the last decade. In this paper, we outline a framework of how ESG issues become financially material, affecting corporate profitability and valuation. We argue that...

The start of the 2000s saw a flurry of international publications on “the business case” for sustainability, seeking to map out the returns on investment and to differentiate recommended actions from cases of corporate philanthropy. Reports by business organisations and others identified...