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Can businesses move beyond efficiency? The shift toward effectiveness and equity in the corporate sustainability debate.
- Source :
- Business Strategy & the Environment (John Wiley & Sons, Inc); Nov/Dec2006, Vol. 15 Issue 6, p402-415, 14p, 3 Diagrams, 2 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- The aim of this paper is to articulate to a wider practitioner and academic audience the value and importance of moving the sustainable business agenda beyond the notion of eco- and socio-efficiency. This in itself is not a new development in the sustainable business literature. What are emerging are integrated models of corporate sustainability that link together the six criteria that a sustainable business will need to satisfy, namely eco-efficiency, socio-efficiency, eco-effectiveness, socio-effectiveness, sufficiency and ecological equity. At this stage these new models of corporate sustainability need further theoretical development, taking corporate sustainability beyond the business case (eco-efficiency) towards an integrated approach that links in the social and natural cases. A new model for sustainable entrepreneurship is presented and discussed in the context of a social entrepreneur case study. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09644733
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Business Strategy & the Environment (John Wiley & Sons, Inc)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 22893710
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.510