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  1. Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM), Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Scharnhorststr. 1, Lüneburg, 21335, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Stefan Schaltegger & Florian Lüdeke-Freund

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  1. London Metropolitan Business School, London Metropolitan University, Moorgate, London, UK

    Samuel O. Idowu

  2. Loyala University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

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  3. International Labor Organization, International Training Center, Viale Maestri del Lavoro, Turin, Italy

    Liangrong Zu

  4. Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore, India

    Ananda Das Gupta

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Schaltegger, S., Lüdeke-Freund, F. (2013). Business Cases for Sustainability. In: Idowu, S.O., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Gupta, A.D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_744

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