Corporate Sustainability in Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Corporate Sustainability: The Big Picture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. How Environmental and Social Issues Affect Business Strategy

      • Melissa Demartini, Paolo Taticchi

      Pages 3-20

   3. The Sustainable Development Goals: A Framework for Business

      • Valérie Amato

      Pages 21-40

   4. Thinking in Systems: The Long-Term Impacts of Short-Term Business growth

      • Roberto Pasqualino

      Pages 41-61

3. The Business Case for Corporate Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. A Modern Definition of Corporate Sustainability

      • Paolo Taticchi, Melissa Demartini

      Pages 65-74

   3. Sustainability Facts

      • Melissa Demartini, Paolo Taticchi

      Pages 75-96

   4. The Link Between Sustainability Investing and Financial Returns: An Asset Management’s Perspective

      • Daniel Ung

      Pages 97-110

   5. Sustainable Finance––Integrating Sustainability into Corporate Banking

      • Laura Maida

      Pages 111-124

4. Definition and Execution of Sustainable Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Business’ Role in a Changing Society. Key Steps to Deliver a Purpose-Led Strategy that Responds to Climate Change and Social Inequality

      • Charlotte Wolff-Bye

      Pages 127-141

   3. How to Approach the Development of a Corporate Sustainability Strategy

      • Sally Taylor

      Pages 143-164

   4. Sustainability Transformations—From Theory to Practice

      • Diana L. Copper

      Pages 165-190

   5. The Evolution of Sustainability Reporting: Integrated Reporting and Sustainable Development Challenges

      • Cristiano Busco, Elena Sofra

      Pages 191-206

   6. Sustainable Supply Chain Management

      • Marco Formentini

      Pages 207-223

5. Back Matter

   Pages 225-226

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Building better organisations, with a clear sense of purpose, is a common challenge faced by many entrepreneurs and executives in industry. A fully integrated corporate sustainability strategy can help organisations to better manage risks, to win business opportunities and to ultimately strengthen reputation. Building on the experience of renowned strategists, sustainability, finance and academic experts, this book offers practical tools and approaches that can be used to develop and implement fully integrated corporate sustainability strategies.

• Corporate sustainability
• sustainable development
• competitive advantage
• sustainable value creation
• financial value of sustainability
• corporate strategies
• sustainable operations
• innovation and sustainability
• impact investing
• sustainability reporting
• corporate social responsibility
• sustainability

• University College London, London, UK

  Paolo Taticchi

• University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

  Melissa Demartini

Paolo Taticchi is Professorial Teaching Fellow in Management & Sustainability and Executive Director of Global Student Experience at Imperial College Business School, UK. He teaches modules on sustainability and competitive advantage, strategy, global operations and projects, and the future of cities. Paolo is also active in the entrepreneurial space, co-founding three firms in the fields of engineering and consultancy.

Melissa Demartini is an Adjunct Professor of Operations Management and Sustainability at the University of Genoa, Italy and Visiting researcher at Imperial College Business School, UK. Her research interests are mainly in the areas of corporate sustainability, operations management, and modelling. She is also industrial sustainability coordinator for the Intelligent Factory Cluster’s Roadmap Project – an Italian government initiative which aims to develop a national strategy to improve the international competitiveness of manufacturing companies.

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