Practical sustainability strategies : how to gain a competitive advantage
by
 
Avlonas, Nikos, 1969-

Title
Practical sustainability strategies : how to gain a competitive advantage

Author
Avlonas, Nikos, 1969-

ISBN
9781119561132

Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages)

General Note
Includes index.

Contents
Urgency to adopt sustainability -- Development of sustainability concept and CSR -- The C.E.R.E.S. and other principles -- The natural step -- Eco-effective vs. eco-efficient: sustainability vs. being "less bad" -- Extended product responsibility and "servicizing" -- Systems thinking leads to "tunneling through the cost barrier" -- Environmental innovation through biomimicry -- Base of the pyramid -- Sustaining fisheries -- Green buildings -- Green chemistry, nanotechnology and big hairy audacious goal -- Sustainability and beyond -- Standards and guidelines for managing sustainability -- The corporation and its stakeholders -- Sustainability reporting -- Metrics for sustainability -- Life cycle analysis and carbon footprint -- Water footprint -- Green marketing, communication and green washing -- Epilogue : where do we go now?

Abstract
This book provides tested and proven practical strategies that make it possible for organizations to develop, maintain, or extend their competitive advantage without causing harm to the environment and society. It explains how to set goals and objectives and then monitor, measure, and report on progress towards achieving corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability. Readers will discover that this can all be accomplished while, at the same time, improving bottom-line profitability. Case studies based on the authors' research and fieldwork illustrate how leading companies have implemented each of the sustainability strategies discussed in the book. There is also an appendix with additional case studies exploring various aspects of business practices and sustainability. -- Edited summary from book.

Local Note
John Wiley and Sons

Subject Term
Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects.
 
Industrial management -- Environmental aspects.
 
Sustainable development.
 
Social responsibility of business.
 
Entreprises -- Aspect de l'environnement.
 
Gestion d'entreprise -- Aspect de l'environnement.
 
Développement durable.
 
Entreprises -- Responsabilité sociale.
 
Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects
 
Industrial management -- Environmental aspects
 
Social responsibility of business
 
Sustainable development

Added Author
Nassos, George P.

Electronic Access
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119561132


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Online LibraryE-Book595879-1001HD30.255 .A96 2014 EBWiley E-Kitap Koleksiyonu