Corporate Sustainability: Governance, Innovation Strategy, Development and Methods
Special Issue of Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice
Volume 6 Issue 2 August 2004
xiv+237 pages ISBN 978-0-9750436-2-2
Editor:
Andrew Griffiths
UQ Business School
The University of Queensland, Australia with
Introduction by: Harrie Vredenburg
TransCanada International Institute for Resource Industries and Sustainability Studies, and
Jeremy Hall
TransCanada International Institute for Resource Industries and Sustainability Studies
In the last few years sustainable corporate development pressures have been recognized as a serious challenge and major strategic issue. Although pressures vary across industrial and national contexts, they are increasingly changing the rules of competition, making extant competencies obsolete, creating winners, losers and opportunities for niche players.
Firms are often ill-prepared to deal with the complex and often ambiguous nature of sustainable development, especially the social dimension. Traditional risk management techniques and innovation strategies are insufficient to deal with these added difficulties.
This Special Issue draws on international and Australian best practice to demonstrate principles of sustainability, their appreciation, measurement and the key role of innovation. Featuring leading corporate sustainability strategy, operations, assessment and management Case Studies, Corporate Sustainability: Governance, Innovation Strategy, Development & Methods offers valuable insights into sustainable development innovation, policy, strategy and governance.
Case studies, sustainability models, research reports and review provide invaluable course and tutorial materials.
This Special Issue has been made available as a discounted book of Readings for Course Coordinators in departments of Management, Environmental Studies, Urban Planning, Engineering, Science & Technology Studies, History & Philosophy of Science and Graduate Schools of Management, as well as for tutors, graduate and undergraduate students seeking to enter the fields of sustainability and innovation studies.
In one volume Corporate Sustainability: Governance, Innovation Strategy, Development & Methods provides:
- Methods and challenges for building human and environmental capacity in organisations
- Development phases of corporate progress toward human and ecological sustainability
- Tools and strategies for understanding and evaluating corporate sustainability initiatives
- Lessons learned from new product development, trialling, assessment, success and failure
- Linkages between e-business, corporate sustainability, human and environmental capacity
- Scenarios and scenario planning for corporate, environmental and social sustainability
- Current Australian, European and American case studies on new sustainable technologies
- Implications for managers from critical analytical, evaluative and governance perspectives.
Imperative reading for managers, policy makers, as well as those involved with research and teaching of corporate sustainability.
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