Description
This book focuses on corporate sustainability and how it evolves through innovation and new business models. Despite what has been accomplished to date, there is an urgent need for further steps to be taken and this book presents a nuanced but compelling plea for collaboration between businesses, government and civil society.
Drawing upon empirical research, the authors look at recent approaches to corporate sustainability, the circular economy and strategic corporate social responsibility. The book examines these issues from multiple viewpoints, including cultural, social and religious. More specifically, the book explores the freight sector (smart freight leadership), the banking sector (sustainable banking) and Islamic finance and sustainability, detailing the contribution of faith-based organizations to promoting sustainability and the greening of church buildings. Overall, this book captures the emerging new business models and capabilities firms need to implement sustainability.
This book will be of great relevance to students, scholars and professionals with an interest in corporate sustainability, social responsibility, environmental management and eco-innovation.
Table of Contents
List of tables
List of figures
List of boxes
About the authors
Preface
Chapters:
- Introduction: Corporate sustainability: Requirements, realities and prospects.
- Sustainable Value Creation
- Sustainable strategies and accounting needs
- Sustainability in Project Management: Making it happen
- Towards smart freight leadership
- Sustainable banking: The mysterious role of commercial banks in achieving a sustainable economy
- Islamic finance and sustainability
- Faith-based organizations and corporate sustainability
- The greening of churches: A maturity framework based on policies and measures
Jan Jaap Bouma and Teun Wolters
Teun Wolters
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A.J. Gilbert Silvius
Sophie Punte and Floor Bollee
Gizem Goren and Teun Wolters
Muhammad Ashfaq and Teun Wolters
Joyce Stubblefield and Jan Jaap Bouma
Ankeneel A. Breuning