The topic of environmental sustainability is generating increased concern among business executives, governments, consumers, and management scholars. As these stakeholders struggle with the challenges and opportunities presented by an array of environmental issues, HRM scholars and practitioners...

Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...

Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...

There is a danger that the CDM will fail to live up to its goals, namely reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and enhanced sustainable development. Sustainability labeling is a promising strategy to hedge against such failures. Labels could also serve as a business risk-hedging tool. The...

The aim of this paper is to provide an exploratory review of the extent to which some of the world’s leading companies are publicly addressing water stewardship as part of their corporate sustainability strategies. The paper begins with an outline of the growing importance of corporate...

Over the years, many corporations have been trying to determine what they can and should do to contribute to the sustainability of the economic, social and ecological environment within which they operate. Corporate social responsibility has become a key senior management issue worldwide and an...

Sustainable development enhances the human life, with good eco facilities. The way to move toward the sustainable development is by giving best solutions to the issues of unbalanced ecological, environmental and economic development. This paper investigates the relationship between the...

Currently creating economics of sustainable development is an alternative concept in relation to neoclassical economics. The aim of economics of sustainable development is sustainable management, which means to guarantee high economic, ecological and socio-cultural standards for present and...

Der Shared Value Ansatz ist ein aktueller Versuch eine Brücke zwischen Unternehmertum und unternehmerischer Verantwortung zu bilden. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, in welchem Verhältnis Nachhaltigkeit und Ökonomie stehen. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert dieses Verhältnis und sucht eine Antwort auf...