Making Sustainability Work : Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts

Making Sustainability Work : Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts / Marc J. Epstein and Adriana Rejc Buhovac.

Now completely updated, Making Sustainability Work is the bible for applying real metrics and best practices to the often-nebulous realm of business sustainability. Mark Epstein and Adriana Rejc Buhovac provide concrete tools for measuring and increasing social and environmental impacts in a manner...

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Main Authors: Epstein, Marc J. (Author), Rejc, Adriana (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©2014.
Edition:Second edition, completely revised and updated.
Subjects:
Social responsibility of business.
Corporations > Environmental aspects.
Industries > Environmental aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Organizational Behavior.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Econometrics.
Corporations > Environmental aspects
Industries > Environmental aspects
Social responsibility of business
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • List of cases, figures, and tables
  • Foreword from the first edition / John Elkington, SustainAbility
  • Foreword from the first edition / Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Harvard Business School
  • Preface
  • Introduction: improving sustainability and financial performance in global corporations
  • A new framework for implementing corporate sustainability
  • Leadership, organizational culture, and strategy for corporate sustainability
  • Organizing for sustainability
  • Costing, capital investments, and the integration of sustainability risks
  • Performance measurement, evaluation, and reward systems
  • The foundations for measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts
  • Implementing a social, environmental, and economic impact measurement system
  • Improving corporate processes, products, and projects for corporate sustainability
  • External sustainability reporting and verification
  • The benefits of sustainability for corporations and society
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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