Challenges in Managing Sustainable Business

Reporting, Taxation, Ethics and Governance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Over the past 30 years sustainability has become increasingly important to scholarly research and business in practice. This book explores a variety of challenges faced by businesses when becoming sustainable and how this links to economic development and its corruption, ethical and taxation implications. Showcasing an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters explore topics such as business ethics, corporate responsibility, tax governance and sustainability practice.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-10-12
Mått148 x 210 x 31 mm
Vikt690 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor403
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319932651

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Susanne Arvidsson is Associate Professor of Business Administration at Lund University, Sweden. Her research interests include corporate finance, sustainability reporting, business ethics and corporate social responsibility. For her research Susanne has been awarded a Wallander Scholarship, has been nominated for the Globe Awards' Sustainable Research Award and has been awarded several external research fund grants. She is initiator and organizer of the international SUBREA conference, which focuses on themes related to sustainable business, reporting and assurance.

An exposé of the challenging practice development of sustainability reporting: From the first wave to the EU Directive (2014/95/EU).- Integrated reporting and integrating thinking: Practical challenges.- Human capital disclosure in Swedish state-owned enterprises: a comparison of integrated reporting and traditional reporting.- Sense-making and sense-giving: Reaching through the smokescreen of sustainability disclosure in the stock market.- Changing financial firms relative to ESG issues.- Sustainability assurance: Who are the assurance providers and what do they do?.- Perspectives on sustainability assurance.- Engagement dialogue as a Nordic sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) strategy.- What responsibilities do companies have in the area of sustainability.- Will the banker be a climate activist?.- Investments in sustainable infrastructure asset class (Responsible investing and impact investing policies).- Anti-Corruption: Who cares?.- Rationalizing deviances – avoiding responsibility.- Organizational anti-corruption: De-Normalization through anxiety, superego, courage and justice.- Good tax governance and transparency: A matter of reputation or ethical motivation.- Perspectives on corporate taxation from a sustainable business perspective.- Concluding remarks.