Corporate Sustainability The Next Steps Towards a Sustainable World

This book focuses on corporate sustainability and how it evolves through innovation and new business models. Despite what has been accomplished to date, there is an urgent need for further steps to be taken and this book presents a nuanced but compelling plea for collaboration between businesses, government and civil society. Drawing upon empirical research, the authors look at recent approaches to corporate sustainability, the circular economy and strategic corporate social responsibility. The book examines these issues from multiple viewpoints, including cultural, social and religious. More specifically, the book explores the freight sector (smart freight leadership), the banking sector (sustainable banking) and Islamic finance and sustainability, detailing the contribution of faith-based organizations to promoting sustainability and the greening of church buildings. Overall, this book captures the emerging new business models and capabilities firms need to implement sustainability. This book will be of great relevance to students, scholars and professionals with an interest in corporate sustainability, social responsibility, environmental management and eco-innovation.

List of tables List of figures List of boxes About the authors Preface Chapters: Introduction: Corporate sustainability: Requirements, realities and prospects. Jan Jaap Bouma and Teun Wolters Sustainable Value Creation Teun Wolters Sustainable strategies and accounting needs Teun Wolters and Jan Jaap Bouma Sustainability in Project Management: Making it happen A.J. Gilbert Silvius Towards smart freight leadership Sophie Punte and Floor Bollee Sustainable banking: The mysterious role of commercial banks in achieving a sustainable economy Gizem Goren and Teun Wolters Islamic finance and sustainability Muhammad Ashfaq and Teun Wolters Faith-based organizations and corporate sustainability Joyce Stubblefield and Jan Jaap Bouma The greening of churches: A maturity framework based on policies and measures Ankeneel A. Breuning

Jan Jaap Bouma is a consultant in strategic sustainability, addressing the challenges that corporations, governments and non-governmental organizations face in this area. Until recently, he was Professor of Valuation and Governance of Natural Resources at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Teun Wolters is Professor of Corporate Sustainability at Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.