Sustainable Enterprise: Profiting from Best Practice

✍ Scribed by Christopher Stephen Brown

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 496
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recommended by the Institute of Directors A practical guide to the strategic and operating challenges in becoming a sustainable enterprise Perceptions of a business's sustainability can have a real impact on the bottom-line. The rewards for responsibility, accountability and transparency can be high: brand loyalty, high-caliber recruits, strengthened partnerships, easier entry to new markets and better access to capital. Failure to live up to a commitment to sustainability, however, can fundamentally undermine prospects for future growth. Drawing on the experience and expertise of leading professionals and practitioners, this book reviews the specific challenges that sustainability can involve: from energy use to employment rights, from emissions trading to corporate governance, and from environmental technology to stakeholder relationships. Contributors include: The Environment Agency; Simons & Simons, ManPower; British Standards Institution; CIPS, The Fairtrade Foundation; London Energy; CSR Network; Futerra; The Cat's Pajamas; Entrust; Climate Care; the Charities Aid Foundation.