Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth

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Gerard George, Martine R. Haas, Havovi Joshi, Anita M. McGahan, Paul Tracey
Edward Elgar Publishing, Feb 11, 2022 - Business & Economics - 608 pages
This ground-breaking Handbook uniquely focuses on the business of sustainability, offering a fresh insight and practical solutions to the challenges that businesses face in making human activity sustainable. It is organized into four distinctive themes that cut across levels of analysis and illustrate a rich set of solution contexts that will guide future research.
 

Contents

an organizing framework for theory practice and impact
2
PART II ORGANIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
23
2 Purposedriven companies and sustainability
24
organizational purpose explained
43
aligning stakeholder interests on complex sustainability issues
63
5 Entrepreneurship sustainability and stakeholder theory
84
a comparative research agenda
100
the role of community enterprise in crosssector work for sustainability
118
insights from the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines 19602020
300
17 Can businesses truly create shared value? A healthcare case study of value creation and appropriation
320
the Georgetown University Pivot Program
331
action research in a reforestation NGO
344
a review of managerial challenges and a framework for future research
361
understanding psychological demand drivers of illegal wildlife products
391
a new framework for managing funding to carbonintensive firms
406
PART V MEASURING OUTCOMES AND SOCIAL IMPACT
423

PART III IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
137
8 Organizational culture for sustainability
138
how corporations develop sustainable ventures
152
the dynamics of space
170
placing workers at the center of sustainability research
189
the translation resistance and integration process model
215
13 Entrepreneurs as essential but missing actors in the Sustainable Development Goals
233
opportunities challenges and impact
252
PART IV SUSTAINABILITYINPRACTICE
273
15 Towards a more sustainable cement and concrete industry
274
23 Impact assessment and measurement with sustainable development goals
424
a strategic model for increasing your organizations SDG impact while minimizing externalities
439
a strategic perspective
459
26 Creating and distributing sustainable value through publicprivate collaborative projects
474
the governance and design of corporatenon profit partnerships
501
28 Addressing the market failures of environmental health products
516
unintended consequences of using monetary incentives to elicit sustainable behaviours
544
30 Greenwashing through compliance to renewable portfolio standards
562
Index
574
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Edited by Gerard George, Michael Brown Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, McDonough School of Business and Director of the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative, Georgetown University, Martine R. Haas, Lauder Chair Professor and Professor of Management, The Wharton School, and Director of the Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies, University of Pennsylvania, US, Havovi Joshi, Director, Centre for Management Practice, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Anita M. McGahan, University Professor and George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society, University of Toronto, Canada and Paul Tracey, Professor of Innovation and Organization, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne, Australia

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