Sustainability and management : an international perspective
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Sustainability and management : an international perspective
(A Gower book)
Routledge, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In the wake of the 1987 Brundtland Report, sustainable development has become key to the management systems within businesses, and a means by which companies can increase their long-term value. Being a 'sustainable company' increasingly means 'staying alive in business' and has become a necessity for all kinds of enterprises, from the micro-sized to global corporations. In more recent years, many companies, and indeed governments, have looked at sustainability as a means to combat the multiple challenges of environmental accidents, global warming, resource depletion, energy, poverty and pollution.
However, being sustainable or maintaining sustainability is not an easy task for a company's management function. It needs continuous support and engagement from the board, the executive management, staff and other stakeholders alike. Additionally, it brings extra costs to the company in terms of hiring trained staff, organising continuous training in the company, publishing sustainability reports and subscribing to a rating system. Sustainability must be nourished by a company's board as well as by all of its departments, such as accounting, marketing and human resources. By the same token, it is not enough for a company simply to declare itself a 'sustainable business' or rely on past measures and reputation; sustainability is an ongoing activity and one which has to be proved by periodically disclosing sustainability reports, according to international rating systems.
In Sustainability and Management: An International Perspective, Kiymet Caliyurt and UElku Yuksel bring together international authors from a variety of specialisations to discuss the development, aspects, problems, roadmap, trends and disclosure systems for sustainability in management. The result is a lively, insightful exposition of the field.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the need of sustainability in management
Kiymet Caliyurt and UElku Yuksel
PART I
Sustainability and management in Europe
1 The flawed logic of sustainable development
David Crowther and Shahla Seifi
2 The representation of produced value for health care organizations: a proposal for "socially responsible reporting" through "non- social" reporting tools in the Italian health care sector
Carmela Gulluscio and Patrizia Torrecchia
3 The notion of sustainability in strategies of Polish companies: the perspective of WIG20 firms
Maria Aluchna
4 Towards a classification of consumer sustainability
Tillmann Wagner and Alexander Stich
PART II
Sustainability and management in Asia
5 Investigation of internal and external factors causing unethical behavior of accounting professionals
Ali Uyar and Ali Haydar Gungormus
6 Corporate environmental reporting in Turkey: status and challenges
Ugur Kaya and Yasar Bayraktar
7 Sustainability reporting in the airline industry: the case of Turkish Airlines
John Taskinsoy and Ali Uyar
8 The internal control system in the prevention of mistakes and fraud: an application in hospitality management
Mehmet Erkan, Ercument Okutmus and Ayse Ergul
9 Banking and sustainable development in China
Jing Bian
10 Ethical issues in business administration and their effects on
social and economic development
Rasim Abutalibov, Rufat Mammadov and Seymur M. Guliyev
11 Integrated sustainability and social responsibility communication
Duygu Turker And Huriye Toker
12 Sustainability in airlines
Hesam Shabaniverki
13 Sustainability reporting
Cagatay Akarcay and Ayca Akarcay OEguz
PART III
Sustainability and management in the Far East
14 Ethical issues characteristics and their relevance to auditors' ethical decision- making in Malaysia
Razana Juhaida Johari, Zuraidah Mohd Sanusi, Rashidah Abdul Rahman and Normah Omar
15 Human capital, governance and firms' performance in public listed companies of Malaysia: is there a relationship?
Roshima Said and Noorain Omar
PART IV
Sustainability and management in Australia, the USA and Brazil
16 A narrative on teaching sustainability
Maria Lai- Ling Lam and Martha J.B. Cook
17 Sustainability and the consumer- citizen's consumption consciousness
Julie E. Francis and Teresa Davis
18 Marketing's role in the future of corporate sustainability efforts
Ravi Parameswaran, Krishna Parameswaran, Steven Kooy and Susan Kuzee
19 Agenda 21 as a tool for managing the relationship between companies and communities: a case study at Petrobras
Rosane Beatriz Juliano De Aguiar Figueiredo, Osvaldo Luiz Goncalves Quelhas, Sergio Luiz Braga Franca, Marcelo Jasmim Meirino and Walter Leal
20 Sustainable supply chain management: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Arpit Raswant and Catherine Sutton- Brady
21 Re- visiting sustainability: an overview of sustainability and collective actions
UElku Yuksel and Kiymet Caliyurt
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"