Principles of Sustainable Business: Frameworks for Corporate Action on the Sdgs

ISBN-13: 9780367565596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 780 str.

Eveline van Mil

Opis

This book provides a timely account of the systemic, strategic and operational challenges that need to be addressed to enhance the effectiveness of corporate involvement in society, by using the SDGs as leading principles-based framework for actionable, powerful and transformative change.

Spis treści

Part I: WHY? SYSTEMIC PRINCIPLES 1 Why now? A necessary frame for grand societal challenges; 2 Why not? Understanding the potential of the SDGs; 3 Why slow? Conditions for realizing the SDGs; Part II: WHAT AND WHO? SOCIETAL AND DYNAMIC PRINCIPLES 4 What if? The SDGs as wicked problems; 5 What and who? The SDGs as wicked opportunities; 6 Who? The governance challenge; Part III: HOW? STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES 7 Making it resilient – dealing with triggering events; 8 Making it strategic – business cases for sustainability; 9 Making it material – designing sustainable business models; 10 Making it powerful – using power as a force for positive change; 11 Making it functional – the internal alignment challenge; 12 Making it collaborative – the partnership challenge