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Being a sustainable Firm
Takeaways for a Sustainability-oriented Management
1st Edition - June 1, 2024
Authors: Maria Cristina Longo, Eleonora Cardillo
Paperback ISBN:9780443140624
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eBook ISBN:9780443140631
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Being a Sustainable Firm: Takeaways for a Sustainability-oriented Management addresses strategies and management issues related to the latest innovations in the field of sustainability. It jointly provides theoretical and empirical contributions to give an overall view of the main issues and methods in sustainability management. It highlights opportunities, limits and challenges related to a management of sustainability innovation. It analyzes how firms become sustainable by applying the circular economy framework and accountability tools. It also presents a series of case studies in sectors particularly interested in sustainable development, including fashion, hospitality, and private-public partnerships for local sustainable communities.The book discusses the 2030 Agenda key goals, paying attention to SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure, SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities, and SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns for their interrelations and their managerial implications at organizational and industry level. The volume also deals with the EU SDG indicators set and interconnections in order to have a deeper understanding of the social and environmental reporting systems for specific sectors. Based on this approach, the book examines critical issues in sustainability assessment, corporate challenges and sustainability models.The book provides useful support for scholars in managerial disciplines, such as strategy, operations and digitalization, international business, as well as in areas that involve social and environmental reporting systems and performance evaluation. It will be a valuable guide for researchers wishing to enhance their knowledge in this area of research and gives takeaways for managers and practitioners for implementing sustainable practices and actions.
Uses case studies to provide a basis for comparing different experiences and managerial choices in order to understand their logic and approaches and interpret them according to the circular economy framework
Specific chapters are devoted to SDG goals 9, 11, and 12 and their implications in various sectors
Provides useful insights for practitioners, managers and policy makers in the fields at the forefront of sustainability management
Scholars in universities and business schools, sustainable development practitioners, primarily working in the private sector in the field of sustainability, Professionals in sustainability management, innovation and business models, accountability, social and environmental reporting; some specific sectors such as fashion, hospitality, private-public partner, local development, smart cities, inclusive communities
Introduction
1: Sustainability: meaning and boundaries
1. Sustainability: key concepts and challenges
2. The main sustainability regulations
3. Born or become a sustainable firm
4. A literature overview on sustainability management
2: Selecting EU SDG goals for sustainable business
1. Research design and methodology
2. Searching among the EU SDG goals for sustainable business
3. SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
4. SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities
5. SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumptions and production patterns
6. Key sectors in implementing the EU SDGs
3: Critical issues in the sustainability assessment
1. EU SDG indicators set consistently with the sustainable goals
2. SDG 9 multi-purpose indicators
3. SDG 11 multi-purpose indicators
4. SDG 12 multi-purpose indicators
5. Raising the bar on Sustainability
4: Regulatory standards and guidelines for sustainability
1. Regulatory standard to fulfill the EU SDGs
2. World Emission Standards
3. Certifications for sustainability
4. Accountability standards
5. The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
5: Strategies for sustainable innovations in fashion firms
1. SDG 9 and fashion sector
2. Sustainability-based strategies in fashion firms
3. Commitment to sustainability in the product life cycle
4. Regulations and certifications in the textile sector
5. Different forms of sustainable fashion6. Takeaways for fashion managers
6: Sustainable business models in the hospitality sector
1. SDG 12 and hospitality sector
2. Corporate challenges and sustainable business models
3. Responsible consumptions and circular economy
4. Sustainable production systems and technology
5. Digital tools and smart solutions
6. Takeaways for hospitality managers
7: Building smart cities and inclusive local communities
1. SDG 11 and sustainable cities and communities
2. The public-private partnerships for local sustainable development
3. Digitalization for smart and safe cities
4. Harmonization and social-environmental reporting tools
5. Social inclusion and cohesion challenge: the Nature -based solutions approach
6. Takeaways for public-private partnerships
8: EU SDG indicators: implications and interconnections on the sustainability management
1. Implication of EU SDG indicators in sustainable firms
2. The managerial issue of EU SDG indicators interconnections
3. Insights from different sustainable business
4. Takeaways for managers and practitioners
Conclusions
No. of pages: 160
Language: English
Published: June 1, 2024
Imprint: Academic Press
Paperback ISBN: 9780443140624
eBook ISBN: 9780443140631
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Maria Cristina Longo
Maria Cristina Longo is Associate Professor of Business Economics and Management at the University of Catania (Italy), where she currently teaches Channel Management and Trade and Sales Management. She got her PhD in Business Administration. She was a Visiting Scholar at INSEAD and Visiting Professor at the University of Economics - Prague (VSE), at the Institute Montpellier Management – Université de Montpellier and at Montpellier Business School. She spent a research visiting period at Columbia Business School and at Southampton Business School. Her research interests focus on innovation management, innovative start-ups and incubators, sustainable entrepreneurship and local development, technological standards, regulatory standards and coopetition, communities of practices and hub-and-spoke model for innovation, dynamic capabilities, export strategy, business sustainability and channel design.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania, Corso Italia, Catania, Italy
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Eleonora Cardillo
Eleonora Cardillo is Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Department of Economics and Business of the University of Catania, where she teaches Financial Accounting and Public Accounting. She was visiting scholar at the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, School of Management – University of St Andrews. Her research interests regard public accounting systems, performance evaluation, sustainability and social reporting. She is author of books and papers published in international and national journals, some of them presented in international conferences.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania, Corso Italia, Catania, Italy