Social Sustainability for Business demonstrates the need for a transformational change to the way businesses across the globe operate. What has become the standard accepted "business model" with a focus on corporate profit, shareholder wealth maximization, and GDP growth, is no longer a sustainable business model for workers, consumers, communities, society, the planet or any of its inhabitants and ecosystems.

The authors argue that the current commercial system depletes natural resources, denigrates human rights, and inhibits positive social and technological...

Social Sustainability for Business demonstrates the need for a transformational change to the way businesses across the globe operate. What has become the standard accepted "business model" with a focus on corporate profit, shareholder wealth maximization, and GDP growth, is no longer a sustainable business model for workers, consumers, communities, society, the planet or any of its inhabitants and ecosystems.

The authors argue that the current commercial system depletes natural resources, denigrates human rights, and inhibits positive social and technological...