BUSINESS AND SUSTAINABILITY, 1E

Business and sustainability is the first textbook to offer students a comprehensive overview of how the worlds sustainability challenges are affecting, and being affected by, business. Climate change, the resource constrained economy, and sustainability in general are amongst the hottest and most problematic topics for contemporary businesses. This textbook has been written specifically to cater for the growing number of courses and modules focused on sustainability in the business context. Through a mix of practitioner and theoretical perspectives, the author offers an insightful review of the subject across three core areas: The global business context, business management and ownership, and the external environment. Each of these areas contains chapters on particular aspects of sustainability and management, and draws from a range of global case studies and exercises. Key features written specifically for both undergraduate and postgraduate students studying business and sustainability provides an objective, comprehensive overview of different strands of thought contains original analysis and examples of sustainability as it is practised and encountered by business, including guidance on how to use materials each Chapter offers a consistent, learning-oriented structure and includes snapshots of business, discussion points for use in Class, end-of-chapter questions and assignments, key concepts, and case studies provides a one-stop shop for students and lecturers working in this area at undergraduate and postgraduate levels online resources for students: web links featuring links to company sustainability initiatives and sustainability organisations. Lecturer resources: teaching suggestions for the case studies from the book. Power point slides links to films, online videos, and other audio-visual resources, with teaching notes. Electronic versions of figures and diagrams from the book table of Contents section one - The global context 1: Business and sustainability overview 2: The sustainability challenges confronting business 3: Business in a resource constrained world section two - managing sustainability 4: leadership, entrepreneurship, and change 5: strategy and execution 6: innovation, planning, and design 7: financing sustainability 8: cooperation, collaboration, and Partnership 9: next generation competencies section three - The external environment 10: governance 11: sustainable consumption and production 12: looking to the future major case studies.