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Corporate Sustainability – From a Fuzzy Concept to a Coherent Reality
Claudia OgreanMihaela Herciusubject
EntrepreneurshipScrutinySocial PsychologyHF5001-6182Process (engineering)05 social sciencesEconomics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)010501 environmental sciencescorporate sustainability01 natural sciencesCorporate sustainabilitysustainability assessmentOrder (exchange)0502 economics and businessSustainabilityBusiness Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)Fuzzy conceptBusinessBusinessworld’s most sustainable corporationsMarketingSet (psychology)050203 business & management0105 earth and related environmental sciencesdescription
Abstract During the last few decades, the search for sustainability has experienced a tremendous momentum, encompassing all the levels of the global system. Fuelled by complex (both proactive and reactive) motivators, the process has surpassed the characteristics of an intellectual endeavor – more preoccupied by idealist goals, and less focused on the actual means to achieve them – and has proved that it can successfully be transposed into the corporate real world – of decision making, objective assessment, and relentless scrutiny. The paper aims to (broadly) explore the world of the most sustainable corporations – based on a descriptive (factual and dynamic) analysis of Corporate Knight’s annual rankings (2016-2018) of the Most Sustainable Corporations – in order to: (a). determine (by comparing and contrasting) the main features these organizations – able to transform the fuzzy concept of corporate sustainability into a coherent reality – display; and (b). set the premises for future (narrower) researches – aiming to explain the “how-s” behind the design, development and implementation of the strategies these corporations follow in their search for (sustainable) competitiveness.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-01 | Studies in Business and Economics |