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

Cover
Contents
List of cases, figures, and tables
Foreword from the First Edition
Foreword from the First Edition
Preface
Introduction: Improving sustainability and financial performance in global corporations
	Why it’s important
	Managing corporate sustainability
	The Corporate Sustainability Model
	Background to this book
	Making sustainability work: an overview of the revised book
	And finally . . .
1 A new framework for implementing corporate sustainability
	What is sustainability?
	Identify your stakeholders
	Be accountable
	Corporate Sustainability Model
	Summary
2 Leadership, organizational culture, and strategy for corporate sustainability
	Board commitment to sustainability
	CEO commitment to sustainability
	Leadership and global climate change
	The role of the corporate mission and vision statements
	The role of organizational culture
	Developing a corporate sustainability strategy
	Thinking globally
	Voluntary standards and codes of conduct
	Working with government regulations
	Social investors and sustainability indices
	Summary
3 Organizing for sustainability
	The challenge for global corporations
	Involve the whole organization
	Information flow and a seat at the table
	Outsourcing
	Philanthropy and collaboration with NGOs
	Summary
4 Costing, capital investments, and the integration of sustainability risks
	The capital investment decision process
	Capital budgeting in small and medium enterprises
	Costs in the decision-making process
	Costing systems
	Risk assessment
	Summary
5 Performance measurement, evaluation, and reward systems
	Performance measurement and evaluation systems
	Incentives and rewards
	Strategic performance measurement systems
	Shareholder value analysis
	Summary
6 The foundations for measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts
	The concept of value
	Methodologies for measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts
	Methodologies for measuring sustainability and political risks
	Summary
7 Implementing a social, environmental, and economic impact measurement system
	Mapping the actions that drive performance
	Sustainability performance metrics
	Engage with your stakeholders
	Measuring reputation
	Measuring risk
	Measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts
	Summary
8 Improving corporate processes, products, and projects for corporate sustainability
	Organizational learning: the new battleground?
	Improving sustainability performance
	Reducing social, environmental, and economic impacts
	Involve the supply chain
	Internal reporting
	Summary
9 External sustainability reporting and verification
	Standards for sustainability reporting
	Industry guidance on sustainability reporting
	Let everyone know how you’re doing
	External disclosure of sustainability performance measures
	Verifying sustainability performance and reporting
	Internal sustainability audits
	External sustainability audits
	Summary
10 The benefits of sustainability for corporations and society
	Make sustainability work
	Use the Corporate Sustainability Model to improve performance
	Create opportunities for innovation
	A last word
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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