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List of cases, figures, and tables | |
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Foreword | |
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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction: Improving social and financial performance in global corporations | |
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Why it's important | |
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Managing corporate sustainability | |
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The Corporate Sustainability Model | |
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Background to this book | |
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Making sustainability work | |
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And finally | |
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A new framework for implementing corporate sustainability | |
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What is sustainability? | |
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Identify your stakeholders | |
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Be accountable | |
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Corporate Sustainability Model | |
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Summary | |
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Leadership and strategy for corporate sustainability | |
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Board commitment to sustainability | |
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CEO commitment to sustainability | |
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Leadership and global climate change | |
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Developing a corporate sustainability strategy | |
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Thinking globally | |
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The role of the corporate mission statement | |
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Voluntary standards and codes of conduct | |
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Working with government regulations | |
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Social investors and sustainability indices | |
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Summary | |
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Organizing for Sustainability | |
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The challenge for global corporations | |
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Involve the whole organization | |
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Information flow and a seat at the table | |
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Outsourcing | |
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Philanthropy and collaboration with NGOs | |
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Summary | |
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Costing, capital investments, and the integration of social risk | |
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The capital investment decision process | |
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Capital budgeting in small and medium enterprises | |
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Costs in the decision-making process | |
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Costing systems | |
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Risk assessment | |
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Summary | |
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Performance evaluation and reward systems | |
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Performance evaluation systems | |
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Incentives and rewards | |
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Strategic performance measurement systems | |
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Shareholder value analysis | |
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Summary | |
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The foundations for measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts | |
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The concept of value | |
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Methodologies for measuring social and environmental impacts | |
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Methodologies for measuring social and environmental risks | |
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Summary | |
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Implementing a social, environmental, and economic impact measurement system | |
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Mapping the actions that drive performance | |
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Sustainability performance metrics | |
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Engage with your stakeholders | |
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Measuring reputation | |
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Measuring risk | |
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Measuring social and environmental impacts | |
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Summary | |
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Improving corporate processes, products, and projects for corporate sustainability | |
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Organizational learning: the new battleground? | |
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Improving sustainability performance | |
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Reducing social and environmental impact | |
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Involve the supply chain | |
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Internal reporting | |
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Summary | |
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External sustainability reporting and verification | |
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Global Reporting Initiative | |
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Let everyone know how you're doing | |
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External disclosure of sustainability measures | |
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Verifying sustainability performance and reporting | |
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Internal sustainability audits | |
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External sustainability audits | |
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Summary | |
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The benefits of sustainability for corporations and society | |
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Make sustainability work | |
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Use the Corporate Sustainability Model to improve performance | |
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Create opportunities for innovation | |
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A last word | |
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Endnotes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |