Download or read book The Sustainability Reporting Ripple written by Deirdre M. Ahern and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much thought has been given by EU institutional actors to how to encourage real change by companies around sustainability matters. This paper recognises that an important part of that jigsaw lies in the replacement of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive's limited vision with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive's expanded vision for sustainability reporting by boards under uniform European Sustainability Reporting Standards. This paper excavates the significance of the likely considerable knock-on effects that remodelled sustainability reporting under the CSRD will have on EU SME actors. Of particular interest is the indirect impact on SMEs who find themselves in the upstream or downstream value chain of larger reporting companies obliged to gather value chain data to comply with the new mandatory sustainability reporting regime. It is argued that the indirect, trickle-down impacts of the Directive on SMEs value chain actors upstream and downstream from regulated reporting companies will be momentous and costly to respond to. As such, assistance and understanding from other regulatory actors and states is crucial. Furthermore, while outside the direct regulatory net, the trickle-down effect of value chain reporting may present a competitiveness issue for SMEs such that larger reporting companies may transfer business to producers and suppliers who are better able to be transparently engage in voluntary reporting on sustainable value creation and to supply the type of ESG scorecards that the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the associated European Sustainability Reporting Standards are indirectly demanding.
Download or read book Sustainability Reporting written by Gwendolen B. White and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability reporting provides nonfinancial and financial indicators of an organization's environmental, economic, and social dimensions of its operations. The globalization of corporations and widely publicized corporate misdeeds (e.g., Nike's child labor problems) has increased public scrutiny of corporate behavior. As pressure grows from a variety of stakeholders (e.g., investors, creditors, customers, and NGOs) for corporate transparency, sustainability reports provide vital information to meet the demand for disclosures about environmental, economic, and social impacts. In addition to addressing stakeholders' demands, this reporting enhances internal decision-making. Managers are better able to assess risks, monitor company resources, establish competitive advantage, create employee loyalty, and engage stakeholders. This book is intended for MBA students, executives, and managers who want to learn about the value of sustainability reporting. In this book, they will discover the internal and external benefits of sustainability reporting, the basics of existing reporting frameworks, and the reaction of the investment community. Detailed examples of sustainability metrics from numerous organizations are provided to illustrate the Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. This book will enable readers to assess how reporting can add value for his or her own organization.
Download or read book CrowdRising written by Lorinda R. Rowledge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open innovation enabled through crowdsourcing is one of the hottest topics in management strategy today. Particularly striking – and of vital importance to the world – are the pioneering efforts to apply crowdsourcing technology and open innovation to solve social, environmental, and economic sustainability challenges. CrowdRising sets out these challenges as context and then highlights the experiences of leaders and early adopters, identifies implementation guidelines, critical success factors and lessons learned, and finally projects where the field is going in the future. With a strong focus on the applications of crowdsourcing for innovation, engagement, and market intelligence, the book profiles the initiatives of companies, NGOs, and technology providers using crowdsourcing to develop these solutions to global problems. It addresses the key challenges impacting organizations: 1) identifying more sustainable ways to design, distribute, transport, recycle, and repurpose products; and 2) discovering and implementing the systems needed to transform global economic growth, drive human prosperity, and replenish the planet’s resources.
Download or read book Sustainability Disclosure written by and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims at analysing the main tools, frameworks and issues concerning sustainability disclosure. Particular emphasis is given to the Integrated Reporting, with the aim to identify its antecedents, use within companies, as well as its implementation issues, strengths and weaknesses.
Download or read book Research Handbook on Sustainability Reporting written by Gunnar Rimmel and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful Research Handbook provides an overview of the complex and multifaceted nature of sustainability reporting. Bringing together over 50 researchers from across the globe, it summarises the current state of knowledge, identifies key methodological approaches and research gaps, and encourages researchers to make further meaningful contributions to this dynamic field.
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence written by Ernest Lim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AI appears to disrupt key private law doctrines, and threatens to undermine some of the principal rights protected by private law. The social changes prompted by AI may also generate significant new challenges for private law. It is thus likely that AI will lead to new developments in private law. This Cambridge Handbook is the first dedicated treatment of the interface between AI and private law, and the challenges that AI poses for private law. This Handbook brings together a global team of private law experts and computer scientists to deal with this problem, and to examine the interface between private law and AI, which includes issues such as whether existing private law can address the challenges of AI and whether and how private law needs to be reformed to reduce the risks of AI while retaining its benefits.
Download or read book From Continuity to Sustainability written by İzel levi Coşkun and published by İzel Levi Coşkun. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit our web site: http://fromcontinuitytosustainability.com/ "This book is intended as a guide to how sustainability can find its place in our lives and in the business community. It includes genuinely valuable tips for what we can and should do for all who care about the planet and future generations." Prof. Dr. Güler Aras “Coskun is among a new generation of entrepreneurs who have witnessed the phenomenal growth of the Turkish economy in the last 20 years accompanied, however, by environmental destruction and a widening gap between rich and poor. Taking the Covid 19 pandemic as a warning signal for the future of our planet, he argues that we have to face the responsibility of creating a habitable natural and social environment for our generation and the generations to come." Binnaz Toprak, Professor of Political Science, Boğaziçi University “Izel is a tireless fighter for a better future who feels injustice right in his bones. He successfully merges his business aspirations with his long-term goals of sustainability and social responsibility. Faruk Eczacıbaşı, Eczacıbaşı Holding "Now, in his compelling book İzel Levi Coşkun not only keeps track of the impending huge catastrophe, he also takes a responsible attitude to defending basic universal ethical values and promotes the fight against today’s global “crisis of injustice." Ömer Madra
Download or read book A Field Guide to Ripple Effects Mapping written by Scott Chazdon and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Sustainable Development written by Radha R. Sharma and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable development has garnered the attention of the global community when United Nations created Brundtland Commission in 1983 to suggest various ways to save the human environment and natural resources and promote economic and social development. Sustainable development is a way of organizing that an organization can function in the long term. United Nation’s sustainable development goals provide a framework to translate these into solutions through responsible business and investment by incorporating the ten Principles of the UN Global Compact into strategies, policies and procedures, and establishing a culture of integrity which are expected to bring out transformative change and create enabling environment for doing business globally. Thus, corporate sustainability, to a large extent, would depend on the capability of the firm to function over a long period with sustainable relationships with the stakeholders. The Handbook of Sustainable Development: Strategies for Organizational Sustainability provides guiding principles and diagnostic tools for transformation, generates knowledge about sustainable organizational designs, co-creating value with multiple stakeholders, managing diversity responsibly, ecopreneurship with entrepreneurial bricolage, sustainable business model, developing positive synergy, sustainability reporting and organizational transformation for sustainability which are pivotal issues to be addressed in management education and corporate world.
Download or read book Accounting for Sustainability written by Gunnar Rimmel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides a broad overview of how sustainability reporting has grown, how it is used now and where it is heading. Daily, we read and hear in various media about concepts such as corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability reporting, sustainability accounting, environmental reports, corporate citizenship or environmental management systems. Accounting for Sustainability decodes this terminology by providing an accessible introduction to the topic that explores sustainability reporting from an internal and external perspective. It begins with an overview of how sustainability reporting has emerged and why it is important, before moving on to cover definitions of key terms and specific theories and frameworks. Subsequent chapters explore the role of financial management, sustainability standards, accounting communication and capital markets. With learning outcomes and study questions embedded in each chapter, this book will be of great interest to students of sustainability reporting and accounting, as well as practitioners taking related professional accreditations"--
Download or read book The Route Towards Global Sustainability written by Pardeep Singh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-11 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses topics of global sustainability involving sustainability indicators, stakeholders' participation, and technological and strategic advances with the goal of "thinking locally to act globally". Scientists, academics, policymakers, and planners are currently focused on escalating global socioeconomic and ecological issues, such as rising inequality, adverse anthropogenic impacts on the environment, and deficiencies in natural resources. These variables are pushing the earth system's resistance capacity past its breaking point, with additional pressures incurred by a global pandemic. Therefore, this book looks to impart knowledge on participatory learning action research for human and environmental health and well-being. Sustainable development planning and management are needed in these pressing circumstances, and they necessitate an analytical interpretation of ongoing processes, current and future challenges, and an understanding of available tools and technologies. The main sections of the book focus on challenges and management practices for global sustainability, promoting educational values, smart initiatives in urban contexts, and integrating emerging sustainability dimensions in policies and legislation. The primary audience for the work is policy makers, urban planners, social scientists, economists, NGOs, and students, researchers, and educators engaged in environmental social science and sustainability management.
Download or read book Governance and Sustainability written by David Crowther and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the issues raised concerning both sustainability and governance and an investigation of approaches taken to dealing with these issues. The research has been developed by experts from around the world who each look at different issues in different contexts.
Download or read book The Business Guide to Sustainability written by Marsha Willard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business Guide to Sustainability is a practical introduction to implementing a comprehensive sustainability strategy in any organization. Written by top business consultants, this useful book can be applied in both large and small enterprises. This edition shifts away from a discussion of CSR to focus more squarely on sustainability. It explores strategies for implementing sustainability in each of the functional areas of the corporation (accounting, HR, operations, etc.), while providing examples from a range of sectors, including manufacturing, services, and government. The book also includes the authors’ S-CORE assessment tool to help organizations determine whether they are on the right track, identify new opportunities, and assign accountability and responsibility. Brimming with interesting stories and examples, and covering new developments such as the emergence of BRICs and the effects of the Great Recession, this book will interest managers, business owners, and students for whom sustainability is a priority.
Download or read book First Person Action Research written by Judi Marshall and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In First Person Action Research Judi Marshall invites her reader to join her in the rich world of first person inquiry: a reflexive approach to life and to one’s own participation in research and learning. Written as a collage of interrelated chapters, fragments and voices, this is an important meditation on the nature of inquiring action. Judi Marshall’s book provides an accessible introduction to self-reflective practice; exploring its principles and practices and illustrating with reflective accounts of inquiry from the author’s professional and personal life. The book also considers action for change in relation to issues of ecological sustainability and corporate responsibility. Writing is reviewed as a process of inquiry, and as a way to present action research experiences. Connections are made with the work of the literary authors Nathalie Sarraute and Kazuo Ishiguro to expand the scope of typical academic writing practices. First Person Action Research is an important and practical resource for students, teachers and practitioners of action research alike. It is a thoughtful and sensitive account of an emerging field in Research Methods.
Download or read book Economics Management and Sustainability written by Partha Ray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an eclectic mix of interesting new areas in the domain of economics, management and sustainability. Written by leading experts, it provides valuable food for thought, with essays introducing new lines of research and empirical research papers offering sound research methodology. The book not only provides answers, but also raises numerous interesting questions concerning the areas covered to whet readers’ appetites to learn more. Professor Anup Sinha is a respected teacher and is a great mind with wide-ranging academic interests spanning from economics and sustainability to management. As well as in various other places in India and the US, he has taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Presidency College (now a University) Calcutta for almost three decades. To commemorate his contributions, this festschrift presents a collection of essays that are broadly subdivided into four sections: Economic Development; Vulnerabilities and Inclusive Growth; Sustainability and Corporate Governance; and Innovation and Management.
Download or read book Energy Law and the Sustainable Development Goals written by Eduardo G Pereira and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UN Sustainable Development Goals are an ambitious agenda for environmental sustainability, economic development, and social transformation. The SDGs include targets for governments, in partnership with private industry and communities, to improve access to affordable and reliable energy, reduce inequality, protect natural resources, and invest in transparent legal institutions and resilient infrastructure. Although transitioning energy systems towards a low-carbon future is a core aspect of the SDGs, the International Energy Agency anticipates that oil and gas will remain a significant component of the global energy mix for some time. Host Government Instruments are tools which governments use to grant oil and gas companies permission to develop state-owned resources. In addition to bringing substantial resources into governments, these HGIs often also include environmental commitments as well as commitments to local hiring, stakeholder engagement, and investment in economic development programmes. The different structures of HGIs and their precise terms and conditions are crucial determinants of the sustainability of oil and gas operations conducted thereunder. This book addresses how governments can use HGIs to advance the SDGs. Part I introduces the SDGs and the legal institutions and governance related to HGIs, including in relation to international energy development, international environmental treaties, the Paris Agreement, and human rights regimes. Part II examines specific provisions within HGIs and regulatory systems which relate to the oil and gas sector and SDGs. It provides case studies to illustrate approaches to HGIs and to identify opportunities for host governments and international oil and gas companies to advance the SDGs. The book concludes with a summary of recommendations regarding how host governments, in partnership with the oil and gas industry, can use HGIs to advance economic development and sustainability goals, and advances potential insights towards development of new and renewable resources.
Download or read book Development Co operation Report 2012 Lessons in Linking Sustainability and Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Development Co-operation Report is the key annual reference document for statistics and analysis on trends in international aid. This year, the Development Co-operation Report 2012 seeks to provide insights into how to address today’s sustainable development challenges.
