Making Sustainability Work, 2nd Edition

Table of contents

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Contents
5. List of cases, figures, and tables
6. Foreword from the First Edition
7. Foreword from the First Edition
8. Preface
9. Introduction: Improving sustainability and financial performance in global corporations
   1. Why it’s important
   2. Managing corporate sustainability
   3. The Corporate Sustainability Model
   4. Background to this book
   5. Making sustainability work: an overview of the revised book
   6. And finally
10. 1 A new framework for implementing corporate sustainability
    1. What is sustainability?
    2. Identify your stakeholders
    3. Be accountable
    4. Corporate Sustainability Model
    5. Summary
11. 2 Leadership, organizational culture, and strategy for corporate sustainability
    1. Board commitment to sustainability
    2. CEO commitment to sustainability
    3. Leadership and global climate change
    4. The role of the corporate mission and vision statements
    5. The role of organizational culture
    6. Developing a corporate sustainability strategy
    7. Thinking globally
    8. Voluntary standards and codes of conduct
    9. Working with government regulations
    10. Social investors and sustainability indices
    11. Summary
12. 3 Organizing for sustainability
    1. The challenge for global corporations
    2. Involve the whole organization
    3. Information flow and a seat at the table
    4. Outsourcing
    5. Philanthropy and collaboration with NGOs
    6. Summary
13. 4 Costing, capital investments, and the integration of sustainability risks
    1. The capital investment decision process
    2. Capital budgeting in small and medium enterprises
    3. Costs in the decision-making process
    4. Costing systems
    5. Risk assessment
    6. Summary
14. 5 Performance measurement, evaluation, and reward systems
    1. Performance measurement and evaluation systems
    2. Incentives and rewards
    3. Strategic performance measurement systems
    4. Shareholder value analysis
    5. Summary
15. 6 The foundations for measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts
    1. The concept of value
    2. Methodologies for measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts
    3. Methodologies for measuring sustainability and political risks
    4. Summary
16. 7 Implementing a social, environmental, and economic impact measurement system
    1. Mapping the actions that drive performance
    2. Sustainability performance metrics
    3. Engage with your stakeholders
    4. Measuring reputation
    5. Measuring risk
    6. Measuring social, environmental, and economic impacts
    7. Summary
17. 8 Improving corporate processes, products, and projects for corporate sustainability
    1. Organizational learning: the new battleground?
    2. Improving sustainability performance
    3. Reducing social, environmental, and economic impacts
    4. Involve the supply chain
    5. Internal reporting
    6. Summary
18. 9 External sustainability reporting and verification
    1. Standards for sustainability reporting
    2. Industry guidance on sustainability reporting
    3. Let everyone know how you’re doing
    4. External disclosure of sustainability performance measures
    5. Verifying sustainability performance and reporting
    6. Internal sustainability audits
    7. External sustainability audits
    8. Summary
19. 10 The benefits of sustainability for corporations and society
    1. Make sustainability work
    2. Use the Corporate Sustainability Model to improve performance
    3. Create opportunities for innovation
    4. A last word
20. Endnotes
21. Bibliography
22. Index