| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 305 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Now completely updated, Making Sustainability Work is the bible for applying real metrics and best practices to the often-nebulous realm of business sustainability. Mark Epstein and Adriana Rejc Buhovac provide concrete tools for measuring and increasing social and environmental impacts in a manner that businesses can understand and put to real use. |
| Contents |
List of cases, figures, and tables -- Foreword from the first edition / John Elkington, SustainAbility -- Foreword from the first edition / Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Harvard Business School -- Preface -- Introduction: improving sustainability and financial performance in global corporations -- A new framework for implementing corporate sustainability -- Leadership, organizational culture, and strategy for corporate sustainability -- Organizing for sustainability -- Costing, capital investments, and the integration of sustainability risks -- Performance measurement, evaluation, and reward systems -- The foundations for measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts -- Implementing a social, environmental, and economic impact measurement system -- Improving corporate processes, products, and projects for corporate sustainability -- External sustainability reporting and verification -- The benefits of sustainability for corporations and society -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Social responsibility of business.
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Corporations -- Environmental aspects.
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Industries -- Environmental aspects.
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Entreprises -- Responsabilité sociale. |
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Sociétés -- Aspect de l'environnement. |
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Corporations -- Environmental aspects |
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Industries -- Environmental aspects |
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Social responsibility of business |
| Added Author |
Rejc, Adriana, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Epstein, Marc J. Making sustainability work. Second Edition, Completely Revised and Updated. San Francisco : Greenleaf Publishing/Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2014 9781609949938 (DLC) 2013045838 (OCoLC)864808684 |
| ISBN |
9781609949945 (electronic bk.) |
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1609949943 (electronic bk.) |
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9781609949952 (electronic bk.) |
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1609949951 (electronic bk.) |
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1306424879 (ebk) |
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9781306424875 (ebk) |
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9781783530878 (e-book) |
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1783530871 (e-book) |
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(hardcover) |
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(hardcover) |
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