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Like all areas of knowledge, environmental management has undergone a process of evolution in recent decades. It is even possible to say that this process of birth of environmental concerns on the part of business until what we have today as the state-of-the-art in environmental management is relatively young when compared to other areas.
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Advantage obtained by the company in relation to competitors, differentiating it. It is a result of a competitive strategy and is characterized by being difficult to imitate.
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The term sustainability in this chapter does not include the social dimension.
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Those who can make a profit from the success of a business, such as a shareholder, for example.
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Puglieri, F.N., Iritani, D.R. (2021). Corporate Sustainability—Defining Business Strategies and Models from Circular Economy. In: de Oliveira, J.A., Lopes Silva, D.A., Puglieri, F.N., Saavedra, Y.M.B. (eds) Life Cycle Engineering and Management of Products. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78044-9_10
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