1st Edition
Routledge Companion to Corporate Sustainability
Chapter One: Business and Sustainability
Thomas Clarke, Suzanne Benn and Melissa Edwards
Chapter Two: Achieving Sustainability Requires Systemic Business Transformation
Sandra Waddock
Chapter Three: Sustainability Principles and Practice
Annik Fet
Chapter Four: Reflections on Three Decades of Corporate Sustainability
David Wheeler
Chapter Five: The Social Impact of Climate Change: Increasing Global Poverty and Inequality
Thomas Clarke and Wafa Khlif
Chapter Six: Sustainability and Changes to Corporate Governance Theory and Practice
Jeroen Veldman
Chapter Seven: Integrating Changing Paradigms of Business: Resolving Multi-Dimensional Strategies for Sustainability
Thomas Clarke
Chapter Eight: The 21st-Century Sustainable Enterprise Force Field
Bob Willard
Chapter Nine: The Long-Term ESG Performance-and-Engagement Cycle
Josh Dowse and Ian Woods
Chapter Ten: Corporate Sustainability and Organizational Resilience
Martina Linnenluecke and Steve Kennedy
Chapter Eleven: Redefining Value Creation: Paradigm Changes in Corporate Reporting
David Monciardini and Jukka Mähönen
Chapter Twelve: Workers’ Capital and ESG: A Study of Australian Industry Superfunds
Martijn Boersma and Alice Klettner
Chapter Thirteen: The Greenwash Detector: A Bingo Score (B.S.) Card Methodology to Assess Financial Sector Climate Commitments
Ellen Quigley
Chapter Fourteen: Sustainability (or ESG) Reporting: Recent Developments and the Potential for Better, More Proactive Management Enabled by Blockchain
Adam J. Sulkowski
Chapter Fifteen: The EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive and Corporate Narrative Disclosure Practices
Lela Mélon
Chapter Sixteen: Business, Business Model and Ecosystem: Innovation for Sustainability
Emmanuel Josserand
Chapter Seventeen: The Intersections of Technology and Sustainability: Strategies for Industry Transformation
Thomas Clarke and Michael Lester
Chapter Eighteen: Corporate Sustainability from a Degrowth Perspective
Robert Perey and Andre Reichel
Chapter Nineteen: Evaluating the Sustainability of Early-Stage Production System Design: A Case Study of Algal Biodiesel Production
Qiao H Chia, Paul J Brown, Christopher Bajada, Leen Labeeuw, Yujie Liang, Samir Ghannam, Hannah Pham, Anna Wright, and Peter Ralph
Chapter Twenty: Natural Capital: Regenerating the Wealth of Planet Earth
Thomas Clarke
Biography
Thomas Clarke is an international corporate governance and sustainability expert. He has published definitive works relating governance to sustainability. His research interests focus upon all aspects of sustainable enterprise, including targets and measures for sustainability, developments in environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies and the redefinition of fiduciary duties around sustainable value creation, finance for sustainable transitions, decarbonisation and the circular and regenerative economy.
Suzanne Benn is an emeritus professor of sustainable enterprise at UTS Business School and was previously a professor of education for sustainability at Macquarie University. Her research interests range across corporate sustainability and corporate responsibility, business education for sustainability, and organisational change and development for sustainability. She has led a series of consultancy and research projects in industry on organisational change for sustainability.
Melissa Edwards in extensive applied research has explored how organisations respond to complex sustainability issues through leadership, strategic action, and business model innovation. Her recent research focuses upon the circular economy, ESG disclosures and reporting, and sustainable investment. She has collaborated with businesses across industry sectors and has translated this experience into innovative curriculum design and action learning to embed sustainability and social impact in business leadership and development programmes.
