Item Type | Book Section |
Abstract | While sustainability management is becoming more widespread among major companies, the impact of their activities do not reflect in studies monitoring the state of the planet. What results from this is a “big disconnect” between sustainable business on an organizational level and sustainable development on a global level. In this chapter we address two main questions: “How can business make an effective contribution to addressing the sustainability challenges we are facing?” And: “When is business truly sustainable?” In a time, when more and more corporations claim to manage sustainably, we need to distinguish between those companies that contribute effectively to sustainability and those that don’t. We do this by clarifying the meaning of business sustainability and link it to the global sustainability challenges. We review established approaches to business sustainability in the literature and develop a typology of business sustainability with a focus on effective contributions for sustainable development. |
Authors | Dyllick, Thomas & Muff, Katrin |
Editors | Jeanrenaud, Sally; Jeanrebaud, Jean-Paul & Gosling, Jonathan |
Language | English |
Subjects | business studies social sciences education |
HSG Classification | contribution to education |
HSG Profile Area | SoM - Business Innovation |
Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Place of Publication | Chichester |
Page Range | 381-407 |
Number of Pages | 26 |
Title of Book | Sustainable business : a one planet approach |
ISBN | 978-1-118-52242-4 |
Depositing User | Prof. em. Thomas Dyllick-Brenzinger |
Date Deposited | 23 Aug 2017 10:12 |
Last Modified | 20 Jul 2022 17:31 |
URI: | https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/251424 |
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CitationDyllick, Thomas & Muff, Katrin: Transitioning. In Jeanrenaud, Sally; Jeanrebaud, Jean-Paul & Gosling, Jonathan (ed.): Sustainable business : a one planet approach. Chichester : Wiley, 2017, S. 381-407. Statisticshttps://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/id/eprint/251424
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