Being a Sustainable Firm
Takeaways for a Sustainability-Oriented Management
- 1st Edition - June 6, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Maria Cristina Longo, Eleonora Cardillo
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 0 6 2 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 0 6 3 - 1
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Being a Sustainable Firm: Takeaways for a Sustainability-Oriented Management addresses the key strategic issues that firms encounter when entering the complex world of sustainability. Faced with a proliferation of approaches, regulations and procedures, the text outlines the contours of the meaning of being a sustainable firm and provides a theoretical framework within which to place the environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategic decisions.
The volume critically retraces the way in which companies approach sustainability starting from the EU SDG goals content and the set of indicators for sustainable business. It pays particular 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 interrelationships and implications on the firm competitiveness and the development of cities of the future. In addition, it unfolds across the broad spectrum of international standards and sustainability reporting guidelines, as relevant voluntary socio-environmental reporting systems recognized at international level. Understanding the logic of sustainability reporting and applying sustainable reporting models to specific business areas offers critical insights and application tools for organizations committed to integrating sustainability into their business and creating new sources of value starting from a common vision of sustainable development and social responsibility. The book highlights these aspects by linking them to the firm challenges and sustainability models in sectors particularly interested in sustainable development, including fashion, tourism, and public-private partnerships for sustainable local communities.
The book provides useful support for students and scholars of managerial disciplines, interested in the topics of innovation management, sustainability-based strategies, sustainable entrepreneurship, socio-environmental reporting systems and performance evaluation. The delineation of the regulatory framework and sustainability reporting standards within which strategic decisions are placed constitutes a valuable guide for consultants and entrepreneurs interested to deepen the state of the art of the tools connected to corporate sustainability management and provides takeaways for managers and practitioners on sustainable practices implementation and reporting of activities.
- Uses case studies, guidelines and sustainability reporting tools to compare different sustainability areas and understand critical issues, approaches and performance evaluation systems within the circular economy framework
- Devotes specific chapters to SDG goals 9, 11 and 12 and the related sets of indicators to outline the coordinates within which firms manage sustainability in specific business areas.
- Provides useful insights on ESG parameters and corporate sustainability to entrepreneurs, managers, practitioners, and stakeholders in the cutting-edge sectors 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
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
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 6, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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Maria Cristina Longo
Cristina Longo is an Associate Professor of Business Economics and Management at the University of Catania where she teaches Innovation Management, Tourism Management, and Principles of Management. She was a Canon Foundation in Europe 2021 Research Fellow at Institute Advanced Studies (IAS) and Graduate School of Environment, Yokohama National University, Japan. Her research interests focus on the topics of innovation management, entrepreneurship, and strategy.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Educational Science, Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania, ItalyEC
Eleonora Cardillo
Eleonora Cardillo is an Associate 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 a 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.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania, ItalyRead Being a Sustainable Firm on ScienceDirect