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Within the banking community, the argument about sustainability and profitability tends to be inversely related. Our … research suggests this does not need to be strictly the case. We present a credit score system based on sustainability issues …, which is used as criteria to improve financial institutions’ lending policies. The Sustainability Credit Score System (SCSS …
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Supported by a qualitative study of triple bottom line (TBL) firms—those that simultaneously prioritize economic, social, and environmental objectives—we investigated the market logic and practices of TBL firms to better understand how they fulfill their mission and achieve their goals. We...
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This study focuses on the prediction of the engagement of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in environmental management practices, based on a random sample of 689 SMEs. The study finds that several endogenous factors, including tangibility of sector, firm size, innovative orientation,...
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sustainability. It suggests that organisations need to recognise their agent status amongst a much wider and highly complex array of …
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Using survey responses from 400 fashion companies in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, we examine the diversity of strategic responses to institutional pressures for corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the Nordic fashion industry. We also develop and test a new model of...
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Drawing on social identity theory and organizational identification theory, we develop a model of the impact of perceived corporate social responsibility on employees’ organizational identification. We argue that employees’ perceptions of their company’s social responsibility behaviors are...
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, relatively little research has been conducted on the extent to which corporations have integrated sustainability principles into … the extent to which corporate sustainability principles are integrated into supply chain management (SCM) in corporations … are explored. The findings reveal that there are many challenges in integrating sustainability into SCM. These challenges …
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of corporate social responsibility/sustainability in organisations. The researchers find that the problem is the complex … nature of sustainability itself. We posit that organisations are complex adaptive systems operating within wider complex … demand on leaders. Hence, leadership for sustainability requires leaders of extraordinary abilities. These are leaders who …
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The globally generated concepts of environment and sustainability are fast gaining currency in international business … discourse. Sustainability concerns are concurrently becoming significant to business planning around corporate social … key factor in determining company approaches to sustainability. But what do corporate managers understand by …
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