Measuring and controlling sustainability : spanning theory and practice /: spanning theory and practice. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Adam Lindgreen, Christine Vallaster, Shumaila Yousofzai, Berhard Hirsch.
• Editors: Lindgreen, Adam; Vallaster, Christine; Yousofzai, Shumaila; Hirsch, Berhard
• Contents: List of figures; List of tables; About the editors; About the contributors; Foreword and acknowledgments; Part 1: Organizations and social value creation: concepts, responsibilities, and barriers; 1.1: The Responsible Care initiative as an enabler of implementing coporate social responsibility concepts in the chemical industry, Peter Letmathe and Ilja Rabinovitch ; 1.2: Mind the gap! Existing barriers to standardizing the measurement of social value creation, Cecilia Grieco and Laura Michelini ; Part 2: Accounting, measurement, performance, and diffusion of social value; 2.1: The sustainability balanced scorecard: an introduction to the SBSC and its links to accounting and reporting, Florian Lüdeke-Freund and Stefan Schaltegger ; 2.2: Sustainability accounting standards in the USA – procedural legitimacy: governance, participation, and decision-making processes, Delphine Gibassier ; 2.3: Adapting the measuring rod for social returns in advanced welfare states: a critique of SROI, Konstantin Kehl, Gorgi Krlev, Volker Then, and Georg Mildenberger ; 2.4: Measuring the impact of strategic corporate social responsibility (S-CSR): finding the right approach, Fabian Herkenrath and Christine Vallaster ; 2.5: A performance tool for policy-makers to monitor the dual objective of social enterprises: a data envelopment analysis approach, Matthias Staessens, Pieter Jan Kerstens, Johan Bruneel, and Laurens Cherchye ; 2.6: Diffusion of sustainability: a road map for developing corporate compliance programmes with high diffusion potential, Duygu Türker and Ceren Altuntaş Vural ; Part 3: Practical and managerial insights from real-life cases; 3.1: The impact of environmental and social practices on the triple bottom line: a mediated model, Cristina Gimenez, Vicenta Sierra, Cristina Sancha, Joan Rodón, and Stefan Markovic ; 3.2: Disclosing the invisible: measurement and disclosure pitfalls of carbon dioxide emissions, Nils Niehues and Andreas Dutzi ; 3.3: Social entrepreneurship and social impact assessment: the case of euphoria, Florian Hoos ; 3.4: Mechanisms and tools for measuring and reporting sustainability in the hotel industry: a practical dimension, Piotr Zientara and Paulina Bohdanowicz-Godfrey ; 3.5: The growth of social banks: a new measurement approach, Nikolas Höhnke and Susanne Homölle ; Part 4: Choices, incentives, guidance, and ethics; 4.1: An experimental study on corporate social responsibilty in junior managers’ project choice in an energy-producing company, Matthias Sohn, Dominik Fischer, and Werner Sohn ; 4.2: Design options for sustainability-oriented incentive systems, Robert Huber, Bernhard Hirsch, and Matthias Sohn ; 4.3: Sustainability reporting: do the Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines provide clear guidance?, Rudiger W. Waldkirch and Bernhard Hirsch ; 4.4: Sustainability and ethics in financial reporting: an empirical study of German, Austrian, and Swiss Groups, Peter G. Kirchschläger and Michaekla M. Schaffhauser-Linzatti ; Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 338.927; Sustainable development reporting; Sustainable development -- Evaluation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315401881; 9781315401898; 9781315401874; 9781315401904
• Related ISBNs: 9781138224636
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