Strategy and sustainability: a strategic logic for engagement with the environment

While many firms today routinely publish sustainability reports, work to increase their energy efficiency and market some part of their products or services to customers who are in some way interested in their environmental performance, there still appears to be a general lack of engagement on the issue of the environment from Chief Executive Officers and members of Boards of Directors. Despite years of effort and thousands of scholarly articles, academia has yet to develop a compelling framework with which to engage Senior Management. The article proposes such a framework based on an idea called environmental sensibility and the degree of compliance a firm chooses to pursue. DOI: 10.1057/palcomms.2015.34 OPEN 1 Department of Strategic management, IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain. Correspondence: (email: [email protected]) PALGRAVE COMMUNICATIONS | 1:15034 |DOI: 10.1057/palcomms.2015.34 |www.palgrave-journals.com/palcomms 1