Overview
- Brings together multi-disciplinary research and practice output on sustainable businesses
- Highlights the role of international business in sustainability
- Provides theoretical knowledge and empirical evidences from several countries
Part of the book series: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance (CSEG)
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This textbook focuses on how sustainability is practiced in companies in different sectors of the global economy - examples include aviation, banking, energy, financial services, food, manufacturing, technology, transportation, and tourism. These corporate sectors are at the forefront of the debate around business and sustainability both in their usage of finite resources and their potential to deliver meaningful solutions. Consequently, several experts were brought together for this book and asked to focus on how sustainability is understood and practiced in different companies around the globe in terms of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Chapters incorporate theoretical and applied examples that can help improve levels of insight into international business approaches. They provide opportunities to learn and disseminate factors that are delivering short, medium, and long-term solutions and problems. These insights can incorporate the spectrum of activities required inorder to achieve sustainability through industrial processes, supply chains to consumer behavior.
The multi-disciplinary nature of the fundamental issues also prompted a diverse selection of academics and practitioners across disciplines who have knowledge and/or experiences of sustainability and international business theories, practices, and processes. Students and academics from across related disciplines, corporations, policymakers, and members of societies who study or have an interest in sustainable development will particularly find this book useful.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Part I
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Part II
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Part IV
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Samuel O. Idowu is a senior lecturer at London Metropolitan University (UK). He is a fellow member of the Chartered Governance Institute, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators, and a named freeman of the City of London. Samuel has been in academia for more than 30 years. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of CSR and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Economics and Business Administration and also a series editor of the book series CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance.
Stephen Vertigans is Professor (Emeritus) in Sociology, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (UK). His research interests include Corporate Social Responsibility with particular attention placed on social impacts in Africa and low income housing. To this end, he has visited numerous African countries to help build capacity and investigate how CSR approaches can help overcome deep-rooted social problems and political tensions. Currently Stephen is working on a research project in Kenya into geothermal cooling systems and other methods of reducing heat stress in low income housing.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainability in Global Companies
Book Subtitle: Theory and Practice
Editors: Samuel O. Idowu, Stephen Vertigans
Series Title: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77971-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-77970-1Published: 27 March 2025
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-77973-2Due: 10 April 2026
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-77971-8Published: 26 March 2025
Series ISSN: 2196-7075
Series E-ISSN: 2196-7083
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 354
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Business, Sustainable Development, Corporate Environmental Management, Business Strategy/Leadership