Sustainability is normally considered to be about choices for the future being limited by decisions made in the present, and is frequently portrayed as concerning environmental issues alone. The Durable Corporation rejects both of these notions to argue that sustainability is a more complex...

1. Introduction : why sustainability matters -- 2. Defining sustainability -- 3. Managing risk -- 4. Governance and sustainable performance -- 5. Implications of the size and sector of a firm -- 6. Satisfying stakeholders : distributing effects -- 7. External verification : audit and rating...

About the authors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Market behaviour, stakeholders : approach and good governance -- Agency theory : explaining or creating problems? good governance and ethical behaviour for sustainable business / Guler Aras and Paul Williams -- Using a stakeholder approach to...

Part I. Market behavior, stakeholders' approach and good governance -- Part II. Effective business behavior for corporate sustainability -- Part III. Monitoring and reporting on sustainability -- Part IV. The requirements for implementation of sustainability.

Many academics have highlighted the emergence of programmed change initiatives such as TQM and BPR and have chronicled how “seductive” these ideas appear to have been in the corporate world. Moreover, a burgeoning consultancy industry has emerged, with management consultants fuelling the...

Obviously the resources of the planet are finite and this is a limiting factor to growth and development. The depletion of the resources of the planet is one of the factors which has helped create the current interest in sustainability. Nevertheless the economic system under which the world...