Foundations of Sustainable Business: Theory, Function, and Strategy - Softcover

Sanders, Nada R.; Wood, John D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118441044 ISBN 13: 9781118441046

Publisher: Wiley, 2014

Synopsis

Foundations of Sustainable Business is designed to introduce future business leaders to the most important social and environmental issues of our generation. From the perspectives of a business thought-leader and a public interest policy expert, the text provides a comprehensive, balanced introduction to sustainable business that integrates sustainable policies into all core business functions, including leadership, finance, accounting, risk management, marketing, supply chain management, and operations.

Presenting sustainability as a strategic priority for all aspects of business, the text clearly defines all key concepts and shows how social, economic, and environmental trends are interconnected and relevant to corporate strategy. While the text provides an honest look at climate change, human trafficking, and environmental issues such as water shortage and ecosystem health, all normative guidance is based on traditional business value propositions, taking into account cost, risk, strategy, marketing potential, and operational feasibility.

Additionally, the text offers a variety of pedagogical tools in each chapter to provide an engaging, qualitative-based learning process.  Each chapter ends with original cases with focused questions that test comprehension of concepts. With in-chapter discussion questions, illustrative diagrams, ethical dilemmas, managerial insights, links to fascinating TED Talk videos, and on-point Harvard Business Review cases, Foundations of Sustainable Business is user-friendly for instructors and accessible to students.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"A comprehensive overview of the issues and potential solutions to sustainability practices in today's global economy."
Joseph Cazier, Appalachian State University

"This is a well-written, scholarly text that, like the topic itself, attempts to integrate material from a broad range of academic disciplines."
Melvin Blumberg, Penn State University

"A comprehensive book that could make teaching sustainability a lot easier. I'd say it has a lot of detail and information that students should learn."
Carol Hee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"An intriguing approach to the issue and management of sustainability."
John Mahon, University of Maine

"The collection of cases and discussion questions are very helpful and interesting. The various overviews are worthwhile."
Deborah Steketee, Aquinas College 

"This is an excellent, well-informed, thorough introduction to why sustainability is important in business and how best to achieve it."
Daniel Florino, American University

"It is a sustainability book for business people; it addresses the issues of business and sustainability today without being overly political."
Richard Grogan, Antioch University New England

"An introduction to sustainability that is well integrated with business topics and provides a proactive and practical approach to greening companies."
Susan Cholette, San Francisco State

"This book assembles the various and often interdisciplinary aspect of sustainability in a very readable and understandable fashion."
Beate Klingenberg, Marist College

"It is complete, easy to read, it flows from one topic to another, it is extremely well organized. This would make a great text for [a] management course in sustainability."
Gregory Graman, Michigan Tech University 

About the Author:

Nada R. Sanders has an international reputation as a leading expert in forecasting and supply chain management. She is author of the book Supply Chain Management: A Global Perspective and is co-author of the book Operations Management, in its 5th edition. She was ranked in the top 8 percent of individuals in the field of operations management from a pool of 738 authors and 237 different schools by a study of research productivity in U.S. business schools, is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute, and has served on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), and the Production Operations Management Society (POMS).

John D. Wood is the author of Foundations of Sustainable Business: Theory, Function, and Strategy, published by Wiley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1118441044
• ISBN 13: 9781118441046
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352