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- A Closer Look at Applied Sustainability Centers
discusses the rise of academic centers with a focus on applied sustainability, primarily in environmental subjects, and examines a number of those centers in detail. Our hope in offering this informat...
Citation: The 2008 Student Attitudes Survey. 2008. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Sustainability
- Alternative Energy Sources in Cement Manufacturing: A Systematic Review of the Body of Knowledge
The most comprehensive and credible evidence to date on alternative energy for cement manufacturing. Systematic review of more than 110 applied and academic studies. The use of alternative fuels in cement manufacturing was found to generally lead to a reduction in greenhouse gasses and criteria air contaminants compared to the use of fossil fuels....
Citation: Network for Business Sustainability. 2011. Alternative Energy Sources in Cement Manufacturing: A Systematic Review of the Body of Knowledge. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved
from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Environment & Business, Sustainability
- An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting
MSN’s analysis is based primarily on Walmex’s 2009 SRSD Report. It also relies on other, publicly available information about company policy and practice in order to supplement and compare with the company’s own reporting....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2010. An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Consumer Issues, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour
- An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting: Summary
The following is a summary of MSN’s report, which identifies strengths, gaps and weaknesses in Walmex’s 2009 SRSD Report, points to social and environmental performance issues that arise from consideration of the company’s CSR reporting, and puts forward a number of recommendations for improvements in policy, practice and reporting. The report also discusses some of the company’s underlying policies and practices that are of concern to outside stakeholders....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2010. An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting: Summary. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Consumer Issues, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour
- An International Comparison of the Factors Affecting Environmental Strategy and Performance
An environmental management system (EMS) consists of internal policies, assessments, and implementation actions that affect the entire enterprise and its relationship with the natural environment. Suc...
Citation: Henriques, Irene; Sadorsky, Perry; Darnall, Nicole. 2005. An International Comparison of the Factors Affecting Environmental Strategy and Performance. Paper read at Best Paper Proceedings: Sixty-Third Meeting of the Academy of Management, August 2005.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Theory
- Business Adaptation to Climate Change: A Systematic Review of the Literature
This systematic review synthesized the entire body of research on business adaptation to climate change, reviewing thousands of studies from academia and practice. Provides a helpful list of the risks and opportunities for many of the leading sectors dealing with climate change. Includes case studies on how several of the world's leading companies are adapting to climate change. Identifies tools to help businesses assess risks, evaluate opportunities and implement adaptation options....
Citation: Network for Business Sustainability. 2009. Business Adaptation to Climate Change: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Environment & Business, Leadership, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Business Ethics
This book provides comprehensive, integrated coverage of the entire field of business ethics. It begins with an overview of today's business scene, then explores the basic tools and techniques of ethi...
Citation: DeGeorge, Richard T. 1999. Business Ethics. 5 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Poverty, Theory
- Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings
This text provides real-life examples of ethical dilemmas, poor ethical choices, and wise ethical decisions from the newspapers, business journals and the author's experiences as a consultant and boar...
Citation: Jennings, Marianne Moody. 1998. Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings. 3 ed: South-Western Educational Publishing.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corruption, Education, Environment & Business, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Leadership, Theory - Shareholder, Theory - Stakeholder
- Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases
This book provides readers with a clear, straightforward writing style, an abundance of examples, detailed real-life cases, and current data and statistics. It aims to 1) introduce ethical concepts th...
Citation: Velasquez, Manuel G. 2001. Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases. Boston: Pearson Education Inc.
Areas of Interest: Education, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Business in Government and Society: Ethical, International Decision-Making
This practical book illustrates, in an easy-to-read format, how to make ethical decisions. It employs a “hands-on,” international approach unique to this market. Complete, structured ethical decision-...
Citation: Frederick Maidment and William Eldridge. 1999. Business in Government and Society: Ethical, International Decision-Making: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Globalization, Leadership, Public Policy
- Business Responses to Climate Change Regulation in Canada and Germany: Lessons for MNCs from Emerging Economies
This article proposes a novel mapping of the complex relationship between business ethics and regulation, by suggesting five distinct ways in which business ethics and regulation may intersect. The framework is applied to a comparative case study of business responses to climate change regulation in Canada and Germany, both signatories to the Kyoto Protocol. Both countries represent distinctly different approaches which yield significant lessons for emerging economies. We also analyze the specific role of large multinational corporations in this process....
Citation: Eberlein, Burkard and Matten, Dirk. 2009. Business Responses to Climate Change Regulation in Canada and Germany: Lessons for MNCs from Emerging Economies (2009). Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 86, No. 2. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1681026
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Environment & Business
- Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment
Offering the best preparation for future managers, teaches you how to understand and apply legal and ethical concepts to real business. Going further than simply introducing you to the legal environme...
Citation: Jennings, Marianne Moody. 1996. Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment 4th Bk&CD ed: South-Western Pub.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Economic - Environmental, Education, Environment & Business, Globalization, Labour - Employee, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
- Canadian Business Sustainability Challenges 2012
This report presents the key sustainability challenges facing leading businesses for 2012. These priorities were established by a council of executives from Canadian organizations recognized for their leadership in sustainability. Representing major sectors of the economy, these leaders gatheredfor a one-day roundtable facilitated by Dr. Tima Bansal, Executive Director of the Network for Business Sustainability....
Citation: Network
for
Business Sustainability. 2012. Canadian Business Sustainability Challenges 2012. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved
from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Labour - Employee, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability, Theory - Stakeholder
- Canadian Business Sustainability Priorities 2011
This report describes the key areas where businesses have requested better knowledge. The top ten issues have been identified by our Leadership Council: a council of managers from leading organizations across major sectors of the economy. The purpose of this report is to inspire new research in these issues. Armed with this knowledge, researchers, managers and others can collaborate to innovate new solutions....
Citation: Network
for
Business Sustainability. 2011. Canadian Business
Sustainability Priorities 2011. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved
from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Indigenous People, Labour - Employee, Leadership, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Canadian Commercial Real Estate Sustainability Performance Report
This report, released by Sustainalytics in association with the Real Property Association of Canada (REALPac) evaluates the ESG performance of 18 of Canada's largest commercial real estate companies and compares them to some of their international counterparts. The findings suggest that the Canadian commercial real estate industry is playing catch-up with respect to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues when compared to international peers....
Citation: MacMahon, Simon. 2010. Canadian Commercial Real Estate Sustainability Performance Report. Jantzi-Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Canadian Mining Companies and the Shaping of Global Norms of Corporate Social Responsibility
The significance of the GMI lies not so much in its impact, which to date has been modest, but in the influences that drove mining companies to undertake this initiative. While some might dismiss mini...
Citation: Dashwood, Hevina S. 2005. Canadian Mining Companies and the Shaping of Global Norms of Corporate Social Responsibility. International Journal 60 (4):977-98.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business
Bestselling author and green business guru John Elkington offers indispensable reading for astute CEOs preparing to navigate the new agenda of sustainable business practice....
Citation: Elkington, John. 1998. Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business New Society Publishers
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Environment & Business, Sustainability
- Causality between Corporate Social Performance and Financial Performance: Evidence from Canadian Firms
This study assesses the causal relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and financial performance (FP)....
Citation: Makni Gargouri, Rim, Claude Francoeur, and Francois Bellavance. 2009. Causality between Corporate Social Performance and Financial Performance: Evidence from Canadian Firms (April 2). Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 89, No. 3, pp. 409-422. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1372389
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Compendium of Ethics Codes and Instruments of Corporate Responsibility
This compendium of ethics codes and instruments of corporate responsibility was been compiled as a companion to the book Ethics Codes, Corporations and the Challenge of Globalization edited by Wesley...
Citation: McKague, Kevin. 2006. Compendium of Ethics Codes and Instruments of Corporate Responsibility, edited by W. Cragg. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Schulich School of Business, York University.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Corporate Discourse and Environmental Performance in Argentina
This paper examines whether corporate values towards the environment affect a firm's environmental performance. It uses survey methods as well as content and discourse analyses of interview text and corporate reports and web sites to explore the links between managerial 'mindsets' and the environmental performance of the firms of which they are a part. Though the application is Argentina, the lessons learned can be generalized to other developing and industrialized countries....
Citation: Vazquez , Diego A. and Catherine Liston-Heyes. 2008. Corporate Discourse and Environmental Performance in Argentina. Business Strategy and the Environment 17:179-193.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Public Policy - Regulation, Theory - Stakeholder
- Corporate Greening as Amoralization
This paper explores the moral dimension of corporate greening. Drawing on extensive case-study evidence from three organizational types, the proposition is advanced that there is a tendency in corpora...
Citation: Crane, Andrew. 2000. Corporate Greening as Amoralization. Organization Studies 21 (4):673-696.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Environment & Business, Leadership
- Developing Leaders for a Sustainable Global Society
Asking business leaders to make decisions that produce superior financials and simultaneously contribute to social progress and protect environmental quality is a tall order. Nancy McGaw shares the re...
Citation: McGaw, Nancy. 2005. Developing Leaders for a Sustainable Global Society: The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Leadership
- Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
As a field of study, business ethics aims to specify the principles under which businesses must operate to behave ethically. Thus business ethics focuses on such issues as those that have recently att...
Citation: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, edited by R. W. Kolbe. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2008.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Gender, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Environmental and Social Performance
If an organization cares for nature, this paper contends, it will act so as not to harm the ecosystems it affects, or when it cannot so act at the moment it will commit itself to such action over time...
Citation: Di Norcia, Vincent. 1996. Environmental and Social Performance. Journal of Business Ethics 15 (7):773-784.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Economic - Environmental, Environment & Business, Sustainability
- Environmental Disclosure in the Canadian Resource Industry - The Impact of Reporting Regulations
This study examines environmental reporting by Canadian mining and oil & gas companies in their annual reports and stand-alone Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports over a 24-year period from 1985 to 2008....
Citation: Bewley, Kathryn and Magness, Vanessa, Environmental Disclosure in the Canadian Resource Industry - The Impact of Reporting Regulations. 2011. CAAA Annual Conference. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1741602
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Environment & Business, Resource Extraction
- Environmental Policy Tools and Firm Level Management Practices in Canada
Canadian environmental policy has traditionally emphasised command-and-control environmental regulations. Less stringent than U.S. policy, which prescribes mandatory quantity limits on emissions...
Citation: Henriques, Irene; Sadorsky, Perry. 2004. Environmental Policy Tools and Firm Level Management Practices in Canada. Paris.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Public Policy - Regulation
- Environmental risk management in commercial enterprises
Since the beginning of the 1970s, the environmental impact of commercial, and especially industrial, activities have become increasingly a subject of public concern. The discussion has in the main foc...
Citation: Matten, D. 1997. Environmental Risk Management in Commercial Enterprises. Paper read at Risk Analysis and Management in a Global Economy, at Stuttgart.
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Environment & Business
- Essential Strategies for Effective Emissions Trading and Offsetting
This practical guide to corporate emissions trading and offsetting has everything you need to develop your company's emissions trading and offsetting strategy - with case studies of 13 big companies across several industries....
Citation: Essential Strategies for Effective Emissions Trading and Offsetting. 2008. Ethical Corporation Institute.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business
- Ethical Globalization
The benefits and drawbacks of globalization continue to be hotly debated. And there is no doubt that companies operating across borders face complex challenges as they strive to conduct business in wa...
Citation: Ethical Globalization. 2008. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Globalization, Human Rights
- Evaluating the Potential Effectiveness of Codes: The Statement Strength Evaluation Method (SSEM)
The increasing popularity and use of codes requires a technique for being able to distinguish how different codes compare to each other and to stakeholder demands for increased social, environmental a...
Citation: Bondy, K. 2007. Evaluating the Potential Effectiveness of Codes: The Statement Strength Evaluation Method (SSEM). Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management Journal 14 (1):1-15.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business
- eWaste: Refuse Telecoms Should Reuse
Azadeh Sabour, associate consultant on the Sustainability Services team provides insight into the electronic waste challenge....
Citation: Sabour, Azadeh. eWaste: Refuse Telecoms Should Reuse. 2009. Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Environment & Business, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
- Exploring Green Alliances
This paper examines the phenomenon of "green alliances" between businesses and their suppliers, competitors and other stakeholders. The concept of a "green alliance" is explored as a form of green mar...
Citation: Crane, Andrew. 1998. Exploring Green Alliances. Journal of Marketing Management 14 (6):559-579.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Theory - Stakeholder
- Facing the Backlash: Green Marketing and Strategic Reorientation in the 1990s
This paper discusses green marketing strategies in the context faced by businesses in the middle to late 1990s. The literature suggests that this context has been characterized by a consumer backlash...
Citation: Crane, Andrew. 2000. Facing the Backlash: Green Marketing and Strategic Reorientation in the 1990s. Journal of Strategic Marketing 8 (3):277-296.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Corporate Governance, Environment & Business
- Factors Influencing the Implementation of Environmental Management Systems, Practices and Performance
The last decade has seen increasing awareness of the importance of understanding corporate environmental management systems (EMSs) and their relationships with sustainability, competitiveness and institutional practice....
Citation: Weber, O. (2007). Factors Influencing the Implementation of Environmental Management Systems, Practices and Performance. Strategic Sustainability: the State of the Art in Corporate Environmental Management Systems. R. Sroufe and J. Sarkis. Sheffield, UK, Greenleaf: 190-204.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Sustainability
- Family Values and Business Ethics: An International Study
This study compares the attitudes of international college students concerning personal versus business ethics, the environment, and competition....
Citation: Bernardi, Richard A., and Shelby P. Long. 2004. Family Values and Business Ethics: An International Study. International Business & Economics Research Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-11, 2004. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1095390
Areas of Interest: Education, Environment & Business
- Getting to the Bottom of “Triple Bottom Line”
In this paper, we examine critically the notion of “Triple Bottom Line” accounting. We begin by asking just what it is that supporters of the Triple Bottom line idea advocate, and attempt to distil sp...
Citation: Wayne Norman; Chris MacDonald. 2003. Getting to the Bottom of "Triple Bottom Line." Business Ethics Quarterly:19.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic - Environmental, Economic - Social, Environment & Business
- Good Practice Guidance for Mining and Biodiversity
The Good Practice Guidance for Mining and Biodiversity was published as part of an extensive dialogue between ICMM and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), which has been set up to explore different aspects of biodiversity conservation in the mining and metals sector. The guide provides an informative, accessible and highly practical reference source on biodiversity which can be used by mining companies at all stages of their operations, from initial exploration to mine closure planning and implementation....
Citation: Johnson, Sally. 2006. Good Practice Guidance for Mining and Biodiversity. International Council on Mining & Metals.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Resource Extraction
- Governance Ecosystems: CSR in the Latin American Mining Sector
The authors explore the complex dynamics of mining and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)in Latin America, including a reflection on the African continent, presenting arguments and case studies based on new research on a set of urgent and emerging questions surrounding mining, development and sustainability....
Citation: Sagebien, Julia and Nicole Marie Lindsay (eds.). 2011. Governance Ecosystems: CSR in the Latin American Mining Sector. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Governance Towards Responsible Forest Business: Guidance on different types of forest business and the ethics to which they gravitate
Aimed at government authorities with responsibility for the forest sector, this paper clarifies what "responsible forest business" means. It suggests a very broad ethical consideration of what busines...
Citation: Macqueen, Duncan. 2006. Governance Towards Responsible Forest Business: Guidance on different types of forest business and the ethics to which they gravitate. International Institute for Environment and Development.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Government and Corporate Social Responsibility. An Overview of Selected Canadian, European and International Practices
An overview of the support a selection of governments are providing to businesses pursuing socially and environmentally responsible practices.The author states that there are significant and increas...
Citation: Kerby, D. 2001. Government and Corporate Social Responsibility. An Overview of Selected Canadian, European and International Practices. Canadian Business for Social Responsibility.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour, Public Policy
- Green Marketing: Legend, Myth, Farce or Prophesy?
Purpose - To review the history of "green marketing" since the early 1990s and to provide a critique of both theory and practice in order to understand how the marketing discipline may yet contribute...
Citation: Ken Peattie and Andrew Crane. 2005. Green Marketing: Legend, Myth, Farce or Prophesy? Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 8 (4):357-370.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Development, Environment & Business, Sustainability
- Head in the Oil Sands? Climate Change Risks in Canada’s Oil and Gas Sector
Canada's oil and gas companies have failed to take action to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions. Our analysis shows that only two Canadian companies responded appropriately to the risks presented...
Citation: Head in the Oil Sands? Climate Change Risks in Canada's Oil and Gas Sector. 2007. In Sustainability Perspectives: The Ethical Funds Company.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Environment & Business, Resource Extraction
- High Impact Sectors. The Challenge of Reporting on Climate Change
This report, combining the wealth of data available to long-term partners GRI and ACCA, provides a unique insight into the degree to which large companies around the world have begun to disclose their GHG accounting and strategies for reduction....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and ACCA, High Impact Sectors. The Challenge of Reporting on Climate Change, GRI, 2009.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Globalization, Sustainability
- Impact and Benefit Agreements: A Contentious Issue for Environmental and Aboriginal Justice
Impact and benefit agreements (IBAs) have become a common part of a standard package of agreements negotiated between an industrial proponent and a representative Aboriginal organization....
Citation: Courtney Fidler; Michael Hitch. 2007. Impact and Benefit Agreements: A Contentious Issue for Environmental and Aboriginal Justice. Environments Journal 35 (2):21.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Indigenous People, Resource Extraction
- In Earth's Company: Business, Environment, and the Challenge of Sustainability
Product Description; How deep is the corporate commitment to the environment? And what changes in corporate strategy and policy are necessary in the journey to sustainability? Carl Frankel deftly and...
Citation: Frankel, Carl. 1998. In Earth's Company: Business, Environment, and the Challenge of Sustainability: New Society Publishers
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Sustainability
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