Corporate sustainability management : the art and science of managing non-financial performance / Mark W. McElroy and Jo M.L. van Engelen.

Author/creator McElroy, Mark W.
Other author Engelen, Jo van.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Earthscan, 2012.
Descriptionxiv, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subjects
Management--Environmental aspects.
Corporations--Environmental aspects.
Social responsibility of business.

Contents Machine generated contents note: Setting the context -- Project background -- Chapter summaries -- 1.Context-based sustainability -- A brief history of context -- The relevance of capital theory -- Daly's rules -- The triple bottom line -- A modern-day theory of practice for CSM -- Sustainability context -- Summary: context-based sustainability -- 2.Key issues and practice implications of context-based sustainability -- How CBS interacts with core business processes and cycles -- How CBS relates to measurement and reporting -- GRI and the prevalence of context-free sustainability -- Summary: key issues and practice implications of CBS -- 3.How to do CSM -- Introduction -- A case study in CBS: Cabot Creamery Cooperative -- A methodology for practitioners -- the CSM cycle -- Practicing the cycle -- Stakeholder engagement -- Summary: how to do CSM -- 4.Summary and conclusions -- General summary of context-based sustainability (CBS) -- Mini-cases of CBS in action -- General conclusions -- Looking ahead -- Some closing words.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011013841
ISBN9781844079117 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1844079112 (hbk. : alk. paper)