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Businesses and Sustainability - The First Leg is Financial

Whether we are talking about what keeps your doors open, or how to lower the environmental footprint of your business to make it more sustainable, you must be financially sound. Entrepreneurs are generally well-versed in the practice of frugality, but may forget some simple tactics for handling cash flow effectively, and giving attention to timely and accurate financials. Why do I write this? ...

Mar. 1, 2007

By Sustainable Business Consulting (SBC)

Why Sustainability rankings don’t matter (yet)!

As an investor, a business owner, and a consumer, I recently decided that I wanted to fully support businesses embracing sustainability. I didn’t know how best to go about this, so I decided to find out who the ‘100 most sustainable companies’ are. I was intrigued and overwhelmed by the number of lists out there, as well as the different approaches, evaluation criteria, and definitions for ...

Jun. 1, 2006

By Sustainable Business Consulting (SBC)

How to Build Your Sustainable Business Strategy

Sustainability tactics to consider, whether you work for a large company or a small to medium-sized business. An interview with Hannes Partl, Principal Consultant. In your view, what is the definition of a sustainability strategy? Sustainability is an all-encompassing term. It can mean different things to different people and different organizations. In a nutshell, I would say that sustainability ...

Nov. 4, 2019

By Sphera

How to Build Your Sustainable Business Strategy

Sustainability tactics to consider, whether you work for a large company or a small to medium-sized business. An interview with Hannes Partl, Principal Consultant. In your view, what is the definition of a sustainability strategy? Sustainability is an all-encompassing term. It can mean different things to different people and different organizations. In a nutshell, I would say that sustainability ...

Oct. 1, 2019

By Sphera

Removing Obstacles to Better, More Sustainable Business Decisions

The Monetization Working Group in Action June was a very active month for the Monetization Working Group (MWG), which included participation in the 3rd Biennial Water Funds conference in Bogota, Colombia along with working sessions and a full MWG meeting hosted by FEMSA at their offices in Mexico City. Both of these events played an important part in helping the Group advance its purpose of ...

Aug. 5, 2016

By Antea Group - USA

The practice of sustainable business: a New Zealand perspective

The paper outlines the business decision making paradigm that prevailed in the 20th century and how the resultant business decisions revealed deficiencies in that paradigm. However, it recognises that some powerful forces in society wish to retain the 20th century model; there is much available evidence to demonstrate the dangers inherent in such a strategy. Those engaged in business decision ...

Mar. 30, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Integrating sustainability into business continuity planning

Recently, natural and human-enabled disasters have caused many high profile events that resulted in significant losses of life and property, and that have highlighted business vulnerabilities to environmental factors. In response, many organisations have implemented business continuity plans and adopted more sustainable business processes. Business continuity and sustainability have long and ...

Sep. 6, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Sustaining trade with Saudi Arabia: an analysis of exporting as an alternative

Over the past decade, world trade has almost doubled from $7 trillion to more than $13 trillion, and Saudi Arabia is by far the largest trading country in the Middle Eastern region, with total trade volume in excess of $102 billion. This paper reviews the economic structure of Saudi Arabia. While Saudi Arabia has been one of the fastest growing nations in the region, it has been only since 2000 ...

Sep. 16, 2005

By Inderscience Publishers

Cleantech Niche Development: a small business perspective on climate change

The mitigation of climate change enables and requires a number of new companies and businesses to emerge. This paper investigates what it takes for a niche company in these emerging cleantech businesses to be able to act and grow using transition theory. A company that manages to perform successful Cleantech Niche Development (CND) will be able to have an environmentally and financially ...

Oct. 8, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Exiting in a State of Grace: can death be sustainable?

By August 2007, Deborah Cairns and Fran Reilly had been in business just a year and their alternative, family-directed funeral business had already won a regional sustainable business award. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, State of Grace offered clients socially and environmentally friendly alternatives including involving families where possible in keeping the deceased at home without embalming, ...

Jun. 8, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Understanding Chinese management needs through ancient Chinese philosophy

Relevant intellectual and human capital growth in China is necessary for sustainable business development and to achieve China's ambition for global leadership. This can only be achieved through fundamental improvements in the management education system. This is difficult to manage because a history of family, friends and party membership were more relevant to ones career than a sound education. ...

Jan. 21, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Does the business size matter on corporate sustainable performance? The Australian business case

While a growing majority of research studies have concentrated on triple bottom line public reporting in large organisations, the review of past research suggests there seems to be limited support and importance given to small and medium sized businesses. This paper attempts to examine whether business size matters when it comes to corporate sustainability. To achieve this, we have conducted an ...

Jun. 27, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Knowledge is power

A guide to improve Enterprise Sustainability Performance. The white paper is a guide for people in sustainable business that want to learn about sustainability content such as best practice libraries, performance benchmarks and impact profiles to achieve improved Enterprise Sustainability Performance. Please, click here to download the White ...

Jul. 20, 2018

By Sphera

Sustainable strategic management in an emerging market economy: the case of Romanian women entrepreneurs

For decades the field of strategic management has been dominated by research on developed economies, especially those of USA and Europe. Emerging markets, such as the former Soviet bloc countries, have largely been ignored. These countries have experienced, in varying degrees, major political, economic and social changes that have had a major impact on their current entrepreneurial climate. Based ...

Dec. 21, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

The new corporate social responsibility: a call for sustainability in business education

Researchers have studied the role of social responsibility in organisations for decades. Despite this extensive work, the teaching of corporate social responsibility in the classroom across the business curriculum remains somewhat limited. In order for educators in business to catch up with corporations who are increasingly focusing on issues and stakeholders beyond the bottom line, there must be ...

Apr. 12, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Circular economy - Sustainable business framework for growth

What is the circular economy / sustainable business framework? In short, the circular economy (or closed loop) is a generic term for an industrial economy where materials flow in continuous cycles: either a biological cycle (via composting) or a technical cycle, where materials retain their high quality for the manufacturing of new (upgraded) products over and over again. Essentially eliminating ...

May 15, 2013

By EMG CSR Consulting

Educating for sustainability: A double-edged sword?

Evidence from three sections of an undergraduate Business, Government and Society (BG&S) core course suggests that heightened awareness of corporate and executive wrong-doing vis-a-vis the natural environment, and/or emphasis on the business case for greener business practices, may contribute to student cynicism regarding the normative value that business executives place on environmental ...

Apr. 25, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

The sustainable corporation: lessons from Avatar

This article uses the fictitious company RDA from the movie Avatar as a textbook case of corporate non–sustainability. We provide a list of mistakes RDA made and provide parallel corporate examples in our own society in the areas of stakeholder analysis, corporate governance and systems thinking using the triple bottom line. For each area we present a framework that companies could use to operate ...

Mar. 18, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

What is sustainability?

The goal of this paper is to provide a definition of the concept of sustainability with the level of rigor and clarity of neoclassical theory, based on two axioms that ensure equal treatment of the present and the future introduced by the author. We discuss applications to markets, business strategy and public policy. The approach is anchored on the concept of satisfying the basic needs of the ...

Apr. 6, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Contract Electronic Manufacturers with Staying Power: How 3 Small to Mid-sized Companies Achieved Lasting Success

Achieve lasting success without sacrificing sustainability: How three small to mid-sized contract electronic manufacturers have achieved lasting success in a highly competitive industry while maintaining environmental compliance and sustainable business practices. These three small-to-mid-sized companies were selected for this case study because each has: been manufacturing electronic products ...

May 1, 2011

By Technology Forecasters Inc.

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