Understanding Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations : Implications for the Sustainability Service Industry

By:

Imbrogiano, Jean-Pierre [aut]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Routledge Research in Sustainability and Business SerPublisher: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022Description: 1 Online-Ressource (205 p)ISBN:

9781000783087

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Additional physical formats: 1000783081 | 9781032344102 | Erscheint auch als: Understanding Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations. Druck-Ausgabe Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2022DDC classification:

658.4/08

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HD60

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Summary: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Why Understanding Sustainability Performance in Business Organizations is a Prerequisite to Addressing the Grand Challenges of Our Time -- 1.1 Chapter Introduction -- 1.2 Sustainable Development and the Grand Challenges of Our Time -- 1.3 The Role of Private Actors in Addressing Unsustainable Development -- 1.4 The Prerequisite of Understanding Sustainability Performance in Business OrganizationsSummary: 1.5 Moving Inquiries into 'Sustainability Performance of Businesses' on to 'Sustainability Performance in Businesses' -- 1.6 Research Aims -- 1.7 Book Structure -- 2. Contingency in Business Sustainability Research and in the Sustainability Service Industry: A Problematization and Research Agenda -- 2.1 Chapter Introduction -- 2.2 Problematization as a Methodology to Clarify Assumptions in the Business Sustainability Field -- 2.3 The Sustainability Service Industry and its Performance Orientation -- 2.3.1 The Implicit Assumption of Contingency in Practices of the Sustainability Service IndustrySummary: 2.4 What Do We Really Know So Far? Research on Internal Determinants of Business Sustainability and its Performance Orientation -- 2.4.1 Limitations of Validity in Research on Internal Determinants of Business Sustainability -- 2.4.2 The Implicit Assumption of Contingency in Practices of Business Sustainability Scholarship -- 2.5 Evaluating Assumptions of Contingency in Business Sustainability Research -- 2.5.1 Summing up the Problem Caused in Real-World Practices by Implicit Assumptions of Contingency in Business Sustainability Research -- 2.6 A First Research Agenda to Address the ImpasseSummary: 2.6.1 Alleviating the Caveat of Assessing Business Sustainability Performance -- 2.6.2 Answering the Overarching Question: How Does Sustainability Performance Occur in Businesses? -- 2.6.3 When, Why, and How Do Businesses Deploy Management Approaches to Generate Sustainability Performance? -- 2.6.4 What is the Organizational Environment When Businesses Experience Sustainability Performance? -- 2.6.5 What are Alternatives to Conceptualize and Operationalize Sustainability Performance in Businesses?Summary: 2.6.6 What are Adequate Research Paradigms to Comprehend Sustainability Performance in Businesses? -- 2.6.7 Bringing Findings Together and Making Use of Them -- 3. Research Background: The Sustainability Service Industry, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, and the Governance of the Value Chain 'From Mine to Car' -- 3.1 Chapter Introduction -- 3.2 The Emergence of Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) as a Contemporary Phenomenon -- 3.3 Critiques on the Effectiveness of SSCM Practices -- 3.4 Governing the Value Chain 'From Mine to Car'PPN: PPN: 1882644417Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-4-NLEBK | BSZ-4-NLEBK-KAUB

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