Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability

How Does Stakeholder Engagement Affect Business Model Sustainability?

This chapter develops insight for the management of businesses, in various sectors of economic activity, that take, or wish to adopt, a proactive or reactive approach to the triple dimensions of sustainability, suggesting itself to support both academics and practitioners in the wide area of business management. More in detail, this book analyzes, from different points of view, how SE and proper relationship management can contribute to achieving corporate sustainability goals by creating value for the business and particularly ethical and environmental values for the entire community.

Stakeholder Engagement for a Sustainable Development of Business Models

Stakeholders play a relevant role in sustainable business models’ definitions, but their influence on a company’s strategic choices varies according to different factors. The heterogeneity of business models and the different approaches used to achieve the goal of sustainability, in which social or environmental purposes can prevail, require more in-depth research to identify new solutions that can help to develop business models able to create positive external effects for the environment and society.

Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability

This book develops insight for the management of businesses operating in various sectors of economic activity that take, or wish to adopt, a proactive approach to the triple dimensions of sustainability (economic, social and environmental), suggesting itself to support both academics and practitioners in the wide area of business management. The concept of sustainability is today at the heart of international policies and debate, and it plays a key role in the deep changes of the business organizational models operating in a wide range of sectors of economic activity. Companies are more frequently called to answer for the social, ethical and environmental consequences of their business, alt…