Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth (Research Handbooks in Business and Management series)

"This ground-breaking Handbook uniquely focuses on the business of sustainability, offering a fresh insight and practical solutions to the challenges that businesses face in making human activity sustainable. It is organized into four distinctive themes that cut across levels of analysis and illustrate a rich set of solution contexts that will guide future research. The Handbook on the Business of Sustainability offers a comprehensive review of research and empirical evidence on sustainable business, exploring the importance of private sector engagement and implementation. World leading scholars cover the key areas such as organization, execution and the measurement of outcomes and social impact. The insightful case studies also provide critical context and complement the chapters highlighting emerging practices and solutions for the successful application of sustainability initiatives in business. The Handbook will be an invaluable resource for academics, practitioners, and policymakers to reflect on the 'concept and practice' of articulating and strategizing in order to achieve sustainability targets" -- Back cover Front Matter Copyright Contents Contributors Acknowledgments PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction to the business of sustainability: an organizing framework for theory, practice and impact PART II ORGANIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITY 2. Purpose-driven companies and sustainability 3. Legitimacy judgments and prosociality: organizational purpose explained 4. Stakeholder governance: aligning stakeholder interests on complex sustainability issues 5. Entrepreneurship, sustainability, and stakeholder theory 6. Firm-NGO collaborations for sustainability: a comparative research agenda 7. Partnerships and place: the role of community enterprise in cross-sector work for sustainability PART III IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 8. Organizational culture for sustainability 9. Paradoxical tensions in business sustainability: how corporations develop sustainable ventures 10. Gender equality in organizations: the dynamics of space 11. Sustainability for people and the planet: placing workers at the center of sustainability research 12. Sustainability science and corporate cleanup in community fields: the translation, resistance and integration process model 13. Entrepreneurs as essential but missing actors in the Sustainable Development Goals 14. Sustainable entrepreneurship under market uncertainty: opportunities, challenges and impact PART IV SUSTAINABILITY-IN-PRACTICE 15. Towards a more sustainable cement and concrete industry 16. Understanding firm- and field-level change toward sustainable development: insights from the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines, 1960-2020 17. Can businesses truly create shared value? A healthcare case study of value creation and appropriation 18. Increasing employment pathways for returning citizens in Washington, DC: the Georgetown University Pivot Program 19. Conflicting institutional logics as a safe space for collaboration: action research in a reforestation NGO 20. Smart cities: a review of managerial challenges and a framework for future research 21. A road to preserving biodiversity: understanding psychological demand drivers of illegal wildlife products 22. Transition finance: a new framework for managing funding to carbon-intensive firms PART V MEASURING OUTCOMES AND SOCIAL IMPACT 23. Impact assessment and measurement with sustainable development goals 24. Becoming a generalized specialist: a strategic model for increasing your organization’s SDG impact while minimizing externalities 25. Impact measurement tools and social value creation: a strategic perspective 26. Creating and distributing sustainable value through public-private collaborative projects 27. Scaling up collaboration for social impact: the governance and design of corporate-non profit partnerships 28. Addressing the market failures of environmental health products 29. When money fails to talk: unintended consequences of using monetary incentives to elicit sustainable behaviours 30. Greenwashing through compliance to renewable portfolio standards Index