Corporate Governance: Volume 13 Issue 5

Incremental, radical and game-changing: strategic innovation for sustainability

Francisco Szekely, Heidi Strebel

This article was developed to provide a viewpoint for the 10th Annual EABIS Colloquium on Strategic Innovation for Sustainability held at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland on 3-4 July…

A value mapping tool for sustainable business modelling

Nancy Bocken, Samuel Short, Padmakshi Rana, Steve Evans

Although business models that deliver sustainability are increasingly popular in the literature, few tools that assist in sustainable business modelling have been identified. This…

Shifting the paradigm of return on investment: a composite index to measure overall corporate performance

Roland Bardy, Maurizio Massaro

This paper seeks to present a model which connects performance measurement at the business level to the concept of public goods usage, and thus incites a linkage between the…

Integration of sustainable development in the strategy implementation process: proposal of a model

Maria João Bettencourt Gomes de Carvalho Simas, Jorge Francisco Bertinetti Lengler, Nelson José dos Santos António

This paper seeks to integrate sustainable development, based on the application of the extended bottom line (EBL-GMS®) concept, into the implementation of organizational strategy…

Sustainable Enterprise Excellence: towards a framework for holistic data-analytics

Rick Edgeman

Sustainable Enterprise Excellence (SEE) is defined and developed through integration and expansion of business excellence modeling and sustainability thought. The intent is to…

Strategies for sustainability initiatives: why ownership matters

Carol-Ann Tetrault Sirsly, Sujit Sur

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the risk management objectives of the firm's owners influence the organization's sustainability strategies with a particular focus on…

CSR governance innovation: standard competition-collaboration dynamic

Laura Albareda

This paper presents an analytical framework to understand the complex CSR accountability standard architecture, studying the CSR standardization cycle through the organizational…

Combating climate change through organisational innovation: an empirical analysis of internal emission trading schemes

Jacob Hörisch

This paper aims to identify under which circumstances company internal emission trading schemes (IETS) are applied and to examine their actual effects on corporate greenhouse-gas…

100 per cent organic? A sustainable entrepreneurship perspective on the diffusion of organic clothing

Erik G. Hansen, Stefan Schaltegger

This paper analyses the sustainability-oriented transformation of industries from the lens of sustainable entrepreneurship. The authors investigate the co-evolution between…

Sustainability-driven innovation and the Climate Savers' programme: experience of international companies in China

Anna Trifilova, John Bessant, Fu Jia, Jonathan Gosling

– This study aims to explore the experience of eight international companies, focusing on their strategies in sustainable innovations in China.

Sustainability as a driver for innovation – towards a model of corporate social entrepreneurship at Odebrecht in Brazil

Heiko Spitzeck, Claudio Boechat, Sérgio França Leão

The purpose of this paper is to present a model of corporate social entrepreneurship. The case of Odebrecht demonstrates how companies are using society's sustainability…

Nuclear electricity generation in South Africa: a study of strategic innovation for sustainability

Ian Hipkin

The literature on sustainable business development in emerging economies deals predominantly with the entry modes of multinationals and how they adapt to local conditions. Little…

Strategic innovation for sustainability: honouring the lifetime achievements of Professor Nigel Roome, Chairman of the Academic Board of ABIS, in research on Sustainable Development and Innovation

Gilbert Lenssen