{"product_id":"making-sustainability-work-isbn-9781609949938","title":"Making Sustainability Work","description":"Most companies today have some commitment to corporate social responsibility, but implementing these initiatives can be particularly challenging. While a lot has been written on ethical and strategic factors, there is still a dearth of information on the practical nuts and bolts. And whereas with most other organizational initiatives the sole objective is improved financial performance, sustainability broadens the focus to include social and environmental performance, which is much more difficult to measure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now updated throughout with new examples and new research, this is a complete guide to implementing and measuring the effectiveness of sustainability initiatives. It draws on Marc Epstein’s and new coauthor Adriana Rejc Buhovac’s solid academic foundation and extensive consulting work and includes best practices from dozens of companies in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Australia, and Africa. This is the ultimate how-to guide for corporate leaders, strategists, academics, sustainability consultants, and anyone else with an interest in actually putting sustainability ideas into practice and making sure they accomplish their goals.List of cases, figures, and tables \u003cbr\u003e Foreword from the First Edition--John Elkington, SustainAbility Herman B “Dutch” Leonard, Harvard Business School\u003cbr\u003e Preface  \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Improving sustainability and financial performance in global corporations\u003cbr\u003e Why it’s important\u003cbr\u003e Managing corporate sustainability\u003cbr\u003e The Corporate Sustainability Model \u003cbr\u003e Background to this book\u003cbr\u003e Making sustainability work: an overview of the revised book \u003cbr\u003e And finally…  \u003cbr\u003e 1--A new framework for implementing corporate sustainability \u003cbr\u003e What is sustainability?\u003cbr\u003e Identify your stakeholders \u003cbr\u003e Be accountable\u003cbr\u003e Corporate Sustainability Model Summary \u003cbr\u003e 2--Leadership, organizational culture, and strategy for corporate sustainability    \u003cbr\u003e Board commitment to sustainability\u003cbr\u003e CEO commitment to sustainability\u003cbr\u003e Leadership and global climate change\u003cbr\u003e The role of the corporate mission and vision statements\u003cbr\u003e The role of organizational culture                              \u003cbr\u003e Developing a corporate sustainability strategy\u003cbr\u003e Thinking globally                                                           \u003cbr\u003e Voluntary standards and codes of conduct\u003cbr\u003e Working with government regulations       \u003cbr\u003e Social investors and sustainability indices \u003cbr\u003e Summary                                                                      \u003cbr\u003e 3--Organizing for sustainability                 \u003cbr\u003e The challenge for global corporations         \u003cbr\u003e Involve the whole organization                         \u003cbr\u003e Information flow and a seat at the table \u003cbr\u003e Outsourcing                                                                 \u003cbr\u003e Philanthropy and collaboration with NGOs \u003cbr\u003e Summary     \u003cbr\u003e 4--Costing, capital investments, and the integration of sustainability risks\u003cbr\u003e The capital investment decision process                           \u003cbr\u003e Capital budgeting in small and medium enterprises \u003cbr\u003e Costs in the decision-making process                                 \u003cbr\u003e Costing systems                                                                               \u003cbr\u003e Risk assessment                                                                               \u003cbr\u003e Summary                                                                             \u003cbr\u003e 5--Performance measurement, evaluation, and reward systems             \u003cbr\u003e Performance measurement and evaluation systems\u003cbr\u003e Incentives and rewards\u003cbr\u003e Strategic performance measurement systems \u003cbr\u003e Shareholder value analysis\u003cbr\u003e Summary        \u003cbr\u003e 6--The foundations for measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts                                                                                                                    \u003cbr\u003e The concept of value \u003cbr\u003e Methodologies for measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts \u003cbr\u003e Methodologies for measuring sustainability and political risks\u003cbr\u003e Summary \u003cbr\u003e 7--Implementing a social, environmental, and economic impact measurement system \u003cbr\u003e Mapping the actions that drive performance \u003cbr\u003e Sustainability performance metrics\u003cbr\u003e Engage with your stakeholders \u003cbr\u003e Measuring reputation\u003cbr\u003e Measuring risk\u003cbr\u003e Measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts \u003cbr\u003e Summary \u003cbr\u003e 8--Improving corporate processes, products, and projects for corporate sustainability\u003cbr\u003e Organizational learning: the new battleground?                   \u003cbr\u003e Improving sustainability performance\u003cbr\u003e Reducing social, environmental, and economic impacts \u003cbr\u003e Involve the supply chain\u003cbr\u003e Internal reporting\u003cbr\u003e Summary    \u003cbr\u003e 9--External sustainability reporting and verification  \u003cbr\u003e Standards for sustainability reporting\u003cbr\u003e Industry guidance on sustainability reporting \u003cbr\u003e Let everyone know how you’re doing\u003cbr\u003e External disclosure of sustainability performance measures\u003cbr\u003e Verifying sustainability performance and reporting Internal sustainability audits\u003cbr\u003e External sustainability audits\u003cbr\u003e Summary                                                                           \u003cbr\u003e 10--The benefits of sustainability for corporations and society \u003cbr\u003e Make sustainability work\u003cbr\u003e Use the Corporate Sustainability Model to improve performance \u003cbr\u003e Create opportunities for innovation \u003cbr\u003e A last word\u003cbr\u003e Endnotes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e IndexMarc J. Epstein is a distinguished research professor of management at Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. He has been a professor at Stanford Business School, Harvard Business School, and INSEAD. He has written or cowritten nearly twenty books and a hundred papers. \u003cbr\u003e Adriana Rejc Buhovac is an associate professor of management in the faculty of economics at the University of Ljubljana. She is a member of the editorial board of Advances in Management Accounting.","brand":"Berrett-Koehler Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302455660773,"sku":"NP9781609949938","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/making-sustainability-work-isbn-9781609949938","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}