Book description
The best practices in corporate social responsibility (CSR) are no longer the exclusive domain of companies like Ben & Jerry's or the Body Shop; now even companies like GE and Wal-Mart are making significant financial and organizational commitments to social and environmental issues. But senior executives are realizing that implementing sustainability is particularly challenging. While a lot has been written on ethical and strategic factors, there is a dearth of information on the practical nuts and bolts of implementation and virtually nothing on how to measure the results. In Making Sustainability Work, Marc Epstein builds on his influential and highly respected previous work to produce the ultimate how-to guide for corporate leaders, strategists, academics, sustainability consultants, and anyone else with an interest in actually putting sustainability ideas into practice.Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- LIST OF CASES, FIGURES, AND TABLES
- FOREWORD
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION: IMPROVING SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN GLOBAL CORPORATIONS
- CHAPTER 1: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR IMPLEMENTING CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY
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CHAPTER 2: LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGY FOR CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY
- Board commitment to sustainability
- CEO commitment to sustainability
- Leadership and global climate change
- Developing a corporate sustainability strategy
- Thinking globally
- The role of the corporate mission statement
- Voluntary standards and codes of conduct
- Working with government regulations
- Social investors and sustainability indices
- Summary
- CHAPTER 3: ORGANIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
- CHAPTER 4: COSTING, CAPITAL INVESTMENTS, AND THE INTEGRATION OF SOCIAL RISK
- CHAPTER 5: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND REWARD SYSTEMS
- CHAPTER 6: THE FOUNDATIONS FOR MEASURING SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS
- CHAPTER 7: IMPLEMENTING A SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND ECONOMIC IMPACT MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 8: IMPROVING CORPORATE PROCESSES, PRODUCTS, AND PROJECTS FOR CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY
- CHAPTER 9: EXTERNAL SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING AND VERIFICATION
- CHAPTER 10: THE BENEFITS OF SUSTAINABILITY FOR CORPORATIONS AND SOCIETY
- ENDNOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
Product information
- Title: Making Sustainability Work
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2008
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781605093826
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