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  • 7 - Ecological Approaches to Corporate Sustainability

  • from Part I - Corporate Sustainability: Approaches
  • Edited by Andreas Rasche, Copenhagen Business School, Mette Morsing, Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), UN GlobalCompact, United Nations, Jeremy Moon, Copenhagen Business School, Arno Kourula, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam
  • Book:
    Corporate Sustainability
    Published online:
    09 March 2023
    Print publication:
    30 March 2023, pp 134-152

  • Summary

    The relationship and place of firms within their natural environment is a central element of corporate sustainability. In this chapter, we provide a brief history of corporate sustainability from an ecological perspective, examine major related trends and challenges, and explore the core principles that such a perspective on corporate sustainability adopts. Several lenses to understand firms within their natural environment have been proposed; we selectively present and contrast twelve key ones relevant to business and management. We conclude by not only advocating for systems thinking as one core principle of corporate sustainability, but also calling for systems action.

  • 18 - Sustainability Partnerships

  • from Part III - Corporate Sustainability: Processes
  • Edited by Andreas Rasche, Copenhagen Business School, Mette Morsing, Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), UN GlobalCompact, United Nations, Jeremy Moon, Copenhagen Business School, Arno Kourula, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam
  • Book:
    Corporate Sustainability
    Published online:
    09 March 2023
    Print publication:
    30 March 2023, pp 370-387

  • Summary

    Companies engage in sustainability partnerships as a way to address complex social and environmental challenges that exceed the coping capacity of single organisations, even societal sectors (public sector, corporate and civil society). In this chapter, we examine corporate engagement in such sustainability partnerships along the questions of ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘why’ and ‘with whom’. We further guide you through the different stages of the partnering process and suggest critical questions to ask and best practices to consider. We address the key challenges involved and also look at the potential dark side of sustainability partnerships, before we close this chapter by exploring which individuals skills will help you successfully engage in these partnerships.

  • 1 - Corporate Sustainability – What It Is and Why It Matters

  • Edited by Andreas Rasche, Copenhagen Business School, Mette Morsing, Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), UN GlobalCompact, United Nations, Jeremy Moon, Copenhagen Business School, Arno Kourula, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam
  • Book:
    Corporate Sustainability
    Published online:
    09 March 2023
    Print publication:
    30 March 2023, pp 1-26

  • Summary

    This chapter starts by discussing the changing overall context in which business, nature and society operate. It is important to understand this context, because it shapes the problems that corporate sustainability aims to address, and it influences how firms can cope with these problems. We then introduce the concept of corporate sustainability. We discuss similarities and differences to related concepts such as corporate social responsibility and business ethics. Next, we review some of the main environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues that firms are asked to address as part of their corporate sustainability commitments. Finally, the chapter reviews four key motivations (instrumental, ethical, stakeholder-based and political) that underpin firms’ corporate sustainability commitments.

  • 26 - Corporate Sustainability: Where Are We Going?

  • from Part IV - Corporate Sustainability: Issues
  • Edited by Andreas Rasche, Copenhagen Business School, Mette Morsing, Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), UN GlobalCompact, United Nations, Jeremy Moon, Copenhagen Business School, Arno Kourula, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam
  • Book:
    Corporate Sustainability
    Published online:
    09 March 2023
    Print publication:
    30 March 2023, pp 550-557

  • Summary

    In the concluding chapter of the book, we reflect on the future of corporate sustainability. We summarise the key topics covered in each of the four sections – approaches, actors, processes and issues. We present past and future developments for each of these sections. We also reflect on how some of the tensions as presented in the introduction remain and become core to corporate sustainability debates. Finally, we end on a reflection of our personal roles in advancing sustainability.

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