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Handbook on the business of sustainability : the organization, implementation, and practice of sustainable growth /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: George, Gerard (Editor), Haas, Martine R. (Editor), Joshi, Havovi (Editor), McGahan, Anita M. (Editor), Tracey, Paul (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MAssachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2022]
Series:Research handbooks in business and management series.
Subjects:
Sustainable development.
Social responsibility of business.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Introduction to the business of sustainability: An organizing framework for theory, practice and impact gerard george, martine r. Haas, havovi joshi, anita m. Mcgahan and paul tracey
  • Part II. Organizing for sustainability
  • 2. Purpose-driven companies and sustainability / Claudine Gartenberg
  • 3. Legitimacy judgments and prosociality: Organizational purpose explained / Rodolphe Durand and Chang-Wa Huynh
  • 4. Stakeholder governance: Aligning stakeholder interests on complex sustainability issues / Sinziana Dorobantu, Abhishek Gupte and Sam Yuqing Li
  • 5. Entrepreneurship, sustainability, and stakeholder theory / Peter G. Klein and Ileana Maldonado-Bautista
  • 6. Firm-ngo collaborations for sustainability: A comparative research agenda / Kate Odziemkowska
  • 7. Partnerships and place: The role of community enterprise in cross-sector work for sustainability / Neil Stott, Michelle Darlington, Jennifer Brenton and Natalie Slawinski
  • Part III. Implementing sustainable development
  • 8. Organizational culture for sustainability / Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Tirza Gapp
  • 9. Paradoxical tensions in business sustainability: How corporations develop sustainable ventures / Thijs Geradts and Justin Jansen
  • 10. Gender equality in organizations: The dynamics of space / Carol T. Kulik, Sukhbir Sandhu, Sanjeewa Perera and Sarah A. Jarvis
  • 11. Sustainability for people and the planet: Placing workers at the center of sustainability research / Julie Yen, Julie Battilana and Emilie Aguirre
  • 12. Sustainability science and corporate cleanup in community fields: The translation, resistance and integration process model / P. Devereaux Jennings, Maggie Cascadden and Andrew J. Hoffman
  • 13. Entrepreneurs as essential but missing actors in the sustainable development goals / Elizabeth Embry, Jeffrey G. York and Stacey Edgar
  • 14. Sustainable entrepreneurship under market uncertainty: Opportunities, challenges and impact / Brandon H. Lee, Panayiotis (Panikos) Georgallis and Jeroen Struben
  • Part IV. Sustainability-in-practice
  • 15. Towards a more sustainable cement and concrete industry / Reto GiereÌ?
  • 16. Understanding firm- and field-level change toward sustainable development: Insights from the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines, 1960-2020 / Tobias Bünder, Nikolas Rathert and Johanna Mair
  • 17. Can businesses truly create shared value? A healthcare case study of value creation and appropriation / Prakash J. Singh and Mehrdokht (Medo) Pournader
  • 18. Increasing employment pathways for returning citizens in washington, dc: The georgetown university pivot program / Alyssa Lovegrove
  • 19. Conflicting institutional logics as a safe space for collaboration: Action research in a reforestation ngo / Simon J.D. Schillebeeckx and Ryan K. Merrill
  • 20. Smart cities: A review of managerial challenges and a framework for future research / Thomas Menkhoff
  • 21. A road to preserving biodiversity: Understanding psychological demand drivers of illegal wildlife products / Vian Sharif and Andreas B. Eisingerich
  • 22. Transition finance: A new framework for managing funding to carbon-intensive firms / Anastasiya Ostrovnaya, Milica Fomicov, Charles Donovan, Zoe Knight and Jonathan Amacker
  • Part V. Measuring outcomes and social impact
  • 23. Impact assessment and measurement with sustainable development goals / Hao Liang, David Fernandez and Mikkel Larsen
  • 24. Becoming a generalized specialist: A strategic model for increasing your organization's sdg impact while minimizing externalities / Kendall Park, Matthew G. Grimes and Joel Gehman
  • 25. Impact measurement tools and social value creation: A strategic perspective / Leandro Nardi, Sergio G. Lazzarini and Sandro Cabral
  • 26. Creating and distributing sustainable value through public-private collaborative projects / Jens K. Roehrich and Ilze Kivleniece
  • 27. Scaling up collaboration for social impact: The governance and design of corporate-nonprofit partnerships / Aline Gatignon
  • 28. Addressing the market failures of environmental health products / Diana Jue-Rajasingh and Jordan Siegel
  • 29. When money fails to talk: Unintended consequences of using monetary incentives to elicit sustainable behaviours / Michelle P. Lee
  • 30. Greenwashing through compliance to renewable portfolio standards / Arkangel M. Cordero and Wesley D. Sine
  • Index.