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...

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.

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...