"Managing Sustainability is a comprehensive guide to governing, leading, and managing a successful sustainability-focused business. Being a socially and environmentally responsible business is a worthy goal for many people; however, turning the goal into reality is a daunting process. This book...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Governance, Leadership and Management -- 2 Sustainability in the Boardroom -- 3 Organizational Design for Sustainability -- 4 Strategic Planning for Sustainability -- 5 The CEO and Sustainability -- 6...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1 Corporate Governance and Sustainability -- Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability -- Convergence of CSR and Corporate Governance -- Impact of Convergence on Corporate Regulation -- Investor...

This chapter works through the evolution of the concept of sustainability that has occurred over the last several decades under the influence of three main groups: ecologists, the United Nation’s World Commission on Environment and Development, often referred to as the “Brundtland...

Sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have become mainstays of business activities: the percentage of large global companies professing to practice some form of sustainability and CSR has been steadily increasing, sustainability reporting has become the norm and businesses of...

While more and more directors and executives are acknowledging the importance of sustainability to their strategies for financial success, companies have continued to struggle with embedding sustainability into their core business practices and overall organizational design. In order for the...

Corporate governance is the responsibility of the company’s board of directors, which is charged with designing, implementing and monitoring the structures and processes for the direction and control of the company. The fiduciary duties and responsibilities of directors are derived from a...

Sustainable finance has been explained to be a long-term approach to finance and investing, emphasizing long-term thinking, decision-making and value creation, and has also been described as the interrelationships that exist between environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) issues on the...