We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 US companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993 – termed as High Sustainability companies – exhibit by 2009, distinct organizational processes compared to a matched sample of firms that adopted almost none of these poli...

We provide a framework for the design of sustainable business models. While extant literature on business models focuses on unlocking positive externalities, we propose a business model framework that effectively addresses negative externalities. A taxonomy based on transorganizational models and governance modes classifies instruments that counsel behaviour patterns. Sustainability strategies ...

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to review and reflect on the sustainability agendas and achievements reported by Europe’s leading food and drinks wholesalers. Design/Methodology/ApproachThe paper begins with a short introduction to corporate sustainability, sustainability reporting and food and drinks wholesaling within Europe and the empirical material for the paper is drawn from reports and i...

In this paper one looks for contributions from the field of collective intelligence. Beginning with a preliminary analysis of businesses and their sustainability, the paper shortly defines collective intelligence and its potential contributions to organizations in general and businesses in particular.

Social entrepreneurship aims to seek alternatives the social problems of community, with creation value. Organizations called Businesses seem have an environment a greater focus on innovation, as they solution problem in effective and sustainable way. Initiatives by individual entrepreneurs, community or institutional be way search for better condition well-being. In this sense, objective study...