THE EFFECT OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY ON ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES.

AuthorNicolaescu, Eugen
PositionReport
  1. Introduction

    Numerous companies should change considerably the manner they do business. Companies are tools of social goal, constituted within society to carry out valuable social purposes (Antolin-Lopez, Delgado-Ceballos, and Montiel, 2016; Hahn et al., 2015; Montiel and Delgado-Ceballos, 2014), thus having a right to a sustained permanence, a license to employ resources, and an accountability to provide socially valuable goods and services (the company is an unalterable social form). There is raised public constraint for companies to become more responsible. International firms activate across political confines (Lozano, 2015; Neugebauer, Figge, and Hahn, 2016) and thus dodge long-range surveillance by certain nation-states. (Benn et al., 2014)

  2. Literature Review

    There is a rising gap between the corporate leaders who have adopted the duties and prospects of corporate citizenship (Baumgartner, 2014; Khan, Serafeim, and Yoon, 2016; Lozano, Carpenter, and Huisingh, 2015) and individuals who, via unawareness or strategy, go on to make use of natural and human resources. Nearly all companies activate under accounting rules and cultural beliefs (Engert, Rauter, and Baumgartner, 2016; Lourenco et al., 2012) that recompense them for ignoring numerous of the social and environmental effects of their undertakings. Companies should be main contributors to sustainability and not social and environmental aggressor weakening a world suitable to live in. (Benn et al., 2014)

  3. Methodology

    Using data from McKinsey and MIT Sloan Management Review, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding barriers that prevent companies from capturing potential value from sustainability initiatives why organizations are engaged in sustainability collaborations (Klettner, Clarke, and Boersma, 2014), and the main obstacles to addressing sustainability issues more robustly.

  4. Results and Discussion

    The entirely sustainable entity is backed by its stakeholders, encompassing its personnel, and preserves the broader society and the ecological setting. The sustaining company signifies an alteration of the company into a reliably sustainable business (Windolph, Harms, and Schaltegger, 2014) that adds value for the business itself, for society as a body, and for the ecosystem. (Benn et al., 2014) (Figures 1-5)

  5. Conclusions

    The most effective force for influencing the sustainable company yet to come will be the concerted proposals of a diversity of change agents. Workers can be change agents for sustainability, whereas leadership which supports variety can advance human sustainability (Lloret, 2016; Rego, Pina e Cunha...

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