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Chapter 1: Corporate Sustainability – What It Is and Why It Matters
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This chapter starts by discussing the changing overall context in which business, nature and society operate. It is important to understand this context, because it shapes the problems that corporate sustainability aims to address, and it influences how firms can cope with these problems. We then introduce the concept of corporate sustainability. We discuss similarities and differences to related concepts such as corporate social responsibility and business ethics. Next, we review some of the main environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues that firms are asked to address as part of their corporate sustainability commitments. Finally, the chapter reviews four key motivations (instrumental, ethical, stakeholder-based and political) that underpin firms’ corporate sustainability commitments.
Keywords
- corporate sustainability
- corporate social responsibility
- business ethics
- globalisation
- ESG
About the book
- Chapter DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009118644.002
- Book DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009118644
- Subjects Business Ethics,Business and Management,Political Economy,Politics and International Relations
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 01 June 2023
- ISBN: 9781009100403
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 01 June 2023
- ISBN: 9781009114929
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 09 March 2023
- ISBN: 9781009118644
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