Understanding Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations

This book sheds new light on the role businesses can play in contributing to sustainability objectives, and how governance actors can better encourage their contributions.

Autorentext

Jean-Pierre Imbrogiano is a DAAD PRIME fellow at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, and Laval University, Canada, as well as a visiting scholar to the University of Helsinki, Finland. He gained his PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia, where he conducted his research at the Sustainable Minerals Institute. His research interests lie in businesses' sustainability performance, the governance of business sustainability, and in socio-cultural foundations of (un-)sustainable development.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations. Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Why Understanding Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations is a Prerequisite to Addressing the Grand Challenges of Our Time 2. Contingency in Business Sustainability Research and in the Sustainability Service Industry: A Problematization and Research Agenda 3. Research Background: The Sustainability Service Industry, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, and the Governance of the Value Chain 'From Mine to Car' 4. An Interpretative Approach to Research Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations 5. Five Different Ways in which Sustainability Performance Occurs in Business Organizations 6. Toward a Theory of Sustainability Performance in Businesse Organizations 7. Implications for the Sustainability Service Industry 8. Where to From Here? Index