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The triple bottom line, does it all add up? : assessing the sustainability of business and CSR /
In this text leading experts examine the implications of the idea of the "triple bottom line"--The business strategy that delivers simultaneous financial, social and environmental benefits - showing what it has already achieved by stimulating change and bringing business to appreciate the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Sterling, VA :
Earthscan,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
- List of Contributors
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Introduction: Triple Bottom Line
- Does it All Add Up?
- History and theory
- Governing and governance
- Metaphorical practice
- Good practice
- Chapter 1: Enter the Triple Bottom Line
- Seven drivers
- Three pressure waves
- The chrysalis economy
- Some implications for governments
- Chapter 2: Triple Bottom Line: A Review of the Literature
- Introduction
- TBL as a management tool
- TBL as a reporting tool
- Conclusions
- Chapter 3: CSR, Sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line
- Introduction
- Environmental, social, economic: is that it?
- What about the real bottom line?
- Do we need a capitalist system?
- The significance of diversity
- Conclusions
- Chapter 4: Accounting for Sustainability: Measuring Quantities or Enhancing Qualities?
- Introduction
- Sustainability accounting: a short exploration
- The triple bottom line: does it all add up?
- Moving towards a systemic approach
- Notes
- Chapter 5: Tracking Global Governance and Sustainability: Is the System Working?
- Introduction
- Global governance
- The boundary question
- Who is taking stock globally?
- The indicator question
- So, what does it all add up to?
- Notes
- Chapter 6: Locating the Government's Bottom Line
- Chapter 7: Towards Reporting on the Triple Bottom Line: Mirages, Methods and Myths
- Introduction
- Voluntary? Reporting?
- Responsibility, accountability and meaning
- Triple bottom line
- Sustainability? Reporting?
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 8: Good Intentions
- Bad Outcomes? The Broken Promise of CSR Reporting
- Business being business
- Government limitations
- The dance of the slaves
- Breaking ranks
- Conclusions
- Chapter 9: What a Fine Mess! Moving Beyond Simple Puzzle-solving for Sustainable Development
- Introduction
- First steps
- Straight lines and emerging messes
- Philosophy, psychology and the triple bottom line
- Transforming the patterns of 'puzzle-solving' (Kuhn, 1996)
- 'There is nothing so practical as a good theory' (Kurt Lewin)
- Puzzle-solving 'in here'
- Because there is no business-as-usual case
- Notes
- Chapter 10: Environmental Cost Accounting: Coming of Age? Tracking Organizational Performance Towards Environmental Sustainability
- Introduction
- What is environmental accounting?
- Internal environmental cost accounting
- External cost accounting
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 11: Sustainability Assessment Model: Modelling Economic, Resource, Environmental and Social Flows of a Project
- Introduction
- Sustainability Assessment Model (SAM)
- Using SAM
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 12: Social Capital at Work: A Manager's Guide
- Introduction
- Defining social capital
- The business benefits of creative trust
- Social capital at work
- How to manage and measure social capital
- Notes
- Chapter 13: What if Business as Usual Won't Work?
- The role of standards in c.