Corporate Sustainability

Andreas Rasche is Professor of Business in Society at Copenhagen Business School's Sustainability Centre, and Associate Dean for the Full-Time MBA Programme. He has taught courses in the MBA and doctoral programmes, chaired Executive Education programmes, authored more than sixty academic articles and cases, and published six books. He has collaborated with the United Nations on several projects and served on the UN Global Compact LEAD Steering Committee. Professor Rasche is an award-winning teacher and case author. He is Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly. Mette Morsing is Head of PRME Principles of Responsible Management Education, UN Global Compact (New York). Morsing was Professor and Mistra Chair of Sustainable Markets at Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden) and Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility and Organizational Theory at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). Morsing has served on boards and held honorary and advisory positions on committees and councils locally and internationally. She has taught in Bachelor, Master and MBA Executive as well as Ph.D. programmes. Morsing has published in Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Business Ethics Quarterly, Organization Studies and Organization, Business & Society, among other places. Jeremy Moon is Professor of Sustainability Governance, Copenhagen Business School. He was Founding Director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, University of Nottingham, and was Director of the CBS Sustainability Centre.  He is author of Corporations and Citizenship (Cambridge, 2008, with Andrew Crane and Dirk Matten); Corporate Social Responsibility: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2014); and 'The Meaning and Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility', Academy of Management Review (2020, with Dirk Matten). Arno Kourula is Professor of Business & Sustainability at the University of Amsterdam Business School, and Docent (honorary title) at Aalto University. He has published widely in international management, business ethics, and policy and environmental studies. Arno has won multiple awards for his research and teaching and collaborates extensively with business, public sector and civil society actors. He has served in editorial roles and on boards for several journals, including as Section Editor of Journal of Business Ethics.

• List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Corporate sustainability – what it is and why it matters Andreas Rasche, Mette Morsing, Jeremy Moon and Arno Kourula; Part I. Corporate Sustainability: Approaches; 2. Historical perspectives on corporate sustainability Jeremy Moon, Luisa Murphy and Jean-Pascal Gond; 3. Ethical approaches to corporate sustainability Andreas Rasche; 4. Stakeholder approaches to corporate sustainability R. Edward Freeman, Laurence R. Wainwright, Sergiy D. Dmytriyev and Robert G. Strand; 5. Strategic approaches to corporate sustainability Andreas Rasche; 6. Political approaches to corporate sustainability Glen Whelan; 7. Ecological approaches to corporate sustainability Arno Kourula and Minna Halme; Part II. Corporate Sustainability: Actors; 8. Multinationals, small and medium-sized enterprises and sustainability Mette Morsing and Laura Spence; 9. Alternative types of organizing for corporate sustainability Carolin Waldner and Andreas Rasche; 10. Sustainability professionals Christine Moser and Evgenia I. lysova; 11. Investors and sustainable finance Andreas Rasche; 12. Government and corporate sustainability Jette Steen Knudsen and Jeremy Moon; 13. NGOs, activism and sustainability Frank G. A. de Bakker and Frank den Hond; 14. Consumers and corporate sustainability Sankar Sen; Part III. Corporate Sustainability: Processes; 15. Corporate governance and sustainability Andreas Rasche; 16. Reputation and corporate sustainability Christopher Wickert and Joep Cornelissen; 17. Reporting, materiality and corporate sustainability Christian Herzig; 18. Sustainability partnerships Lea Stadtler and Arno Kourula; 19. Business model innovation for sustainability Florian Lüdeke-Freund and Stefan Schaltegger; 20. Sustainability standards Andreas Rasche; Part IV. Corporate Sustainability: Issues; 21. Business and human rights Karin Buhmann; 22. Labour rights in global supply chains Dirk Ulrich Gilbert and Kristin Apffelstaedt; 23. Business, climate change and the Anthropocene Andrew Hoffman and Sukanya Roy; 24. Anti-corruption governance, global business and corporate sustainability Dieter Zinnbauer and Hans Krause Hansen; 25. International development and corporate development Afua Owusu-Kwarteng and Sarah L. Jack; 26. Corporate sustainability: where are we going? Arno Kourula, Andreas Rasche, Mette Morsing and Jeremy Moon; References; Index.

'This book is a tremendous achievement. Expert voices are woven together to make the ever-evolving world of corporate sustainability and responsibility both accessible and real, without oversimplifying the mission. It is essential reading for future leaders. I wish we'd had this handbook when I was at school.' Paul Polman, Co-founder and Chair of IMAGINE and former CEO of Unilever