In the wake of the 1987 Brundtland Report, sustainable development has become key to the management systems within businesses, and a means by which companies can increase their long-term value. Being a ‘sustainable company’ increasingly means ‘staying alive in business’ and has become a necessity for all kinds of enterprises, from the micro-sized to global corporations. In more recent years, many companies, and indeed governments, have looked at sustainability as a means to combat the multiple challenges of environmental accidents, global warming, resource depletion, energy, poverty and pollution.
However, being sustainable or maintaining sustainability is not an easy task for a company’s management function. It needs continuous support and engagement from the board, the executive management, staff and other stakeholders alike. Additionally, it brings extra costs to the company in terms of hiring trained staff, organising continuous training in the company, publishing sustainability reports and subscribing to a rating system. Sustainability must be nourished by a company’s board as well as by all of its departments, such as accounting, marketing and human resources. By the same token, it is not enough for a company simply to declare itself a ‘sustainable business’ or rely on past measures and reputation; sustainability is an ongoing activity and one which has to be proved by periodically disclosing sustainability reports, according to international rating systems.
In Sustainability and Management: An International Perspective, Kıymet Çalıyurt and Ülkü Yüksel bring together international authors from a variety of specialisations to discuss the development, aspects, problems, roadmap, trends and disclosure systems for sustainability in management. The result is a lively, insightful exposition of the field.
Edited by:
Kıymet Çalıyurt,
Ülkü Yüksel
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367605964
ISBN 10: 0367605961
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 30 June 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"List of figures List of tables List of contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: the need of sustainability in management Kıymet Çaliyurt and Ülkü Yüksel PART I Sustainability and management in Europe 1 The flawed logic of sustainable development David Crowther and Shahla Seifi 2 The representation of produced value for health care organizations: a proposal for ""socially responsible reporting"" through ""non- social"" reporting tools in the Italian health care sector Carmela Gulluscio and Patrizia Torrecchia 3 The notion of sustainability in strategies of Polish companies: the perspective of WIG20 firms Maria Aluchna 4 Towards a classification of consumer sustainability Tillmann Wagner and Alexander Stich PART II Sustainability and management in Asia 5 Investigation of internal and external factors causing unethical behavior of accounting professionals Ali Uyar and Ali Haydar Gungormuş 6 Corporate environmental reporting in Turkey: status and challenges Uğur Kaya and Yaşar Bayraktar 7 Sustainability reporting in the airline industry: the case of Turkish Airlines John Taskinsoy and Ali Uyar 8 The internal control system in the prevention of mistakes and fraud: an application in hospitality management Mehmet Erkan, Ercüment Okutmuş and Ayse Ergül 9 Banking and sustainable development in China Jing Bian 10 Ethical issues in business administration and their effects on social and economic development Rasim Abutalibov, Rufat Mammadov and Seymur M. Guliyev 11 Integrated sustainability and social responsibility communication Duygu Türker And Huriye Toker 12 Sustainability in airlines Hesam Shabaniverki 13 Sustainability reporting Cağatay Akarcay and Ayca Akarcay Öğüz PART III Sustainability and management in the Far East 14 Ethical issues characteristics and their relevance to auditors’ ethical decision- making in Malaysia Razana Juhaida Johari, Zuraidah Mohd Sanusi, Rashidah Abdul Rahman and Normah Omar 15 Human capital, governance and firms’ performance in public listed companies of Malaysia: is there a relationship? Roshima Said and Noorain Omar PART IV Sustainability and management in Australia, the USA and Brazil 16 A narrative on teaching sustainability Maria Lai- Ling Lam and Martha J.B. Cook 17 Sustainability and the consumer- citizen’s consumption consciousness Julie E. Francis and Teresa Davis 18 Marketing’s role in the future of corporate sustainability efforts Ravi Parameswaran, Krishna Parameswaran, Steven Kooy and Susan Kuzee 19 Agenda 21 as a tool for managing the relationship between companies and communiti"
Kıymet Çalıyurt is the founder of the International Group on Governance, Fraud, Ethics and Social Responsibility (IGonGFE&SR) and the president of the National-International-Students’ Conference Series on Governance, Fraud, Ethics and Social Responsibility (IConGFE&SR). She also founded the International Women and Business Group, which organises a global annual conference. Kıymet has published papers and book chapters both nationally and internationally on fraud, social responsibility, ethics in accounting/finance/aviation disciplines and NGOs. Ülkü Yüksel is a Senior Lecturer of Marketing at the University of Sydney Business School in Australia. Ulku is an active member of the International Centre for Anti-consumption Research (ICAR), representing the University of Sydney Business School, Australia. Her research revolves around the application of consumer marketing concepts in various contexts, including services marketing, international business and cross-cultural consumer behaviour. Specifically, she investigates the effects of culture and psychological pressure on decision- making by managers and consumers, as they confront the risk and cost of their decisions.
Reviews for Sustainability and Management: An International Perspective
'Drs. KAE+/-ymet AalAE+/-yurt and AoelkA1/4 YA1/4ksel have put together an interesting collection of articles by an eclectic group of authors. While the work is aimed at academics others interested in sustainability can also benefit. The issue of sustainability in firms' management is one that will continue to be critical and the more stakeholders which can participate in the debate the better.' Graham Gal, Isenberg School of Management - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA 'Readers will sail through this easy-to-understand, well-written and timely book on the complex and important subject of the future of management sustainability. The authors challenge companies, employees, employers, citizens, consumers, and the society in general to question their particular actions, and by doing so, this book plays an imperative role in comprehending how stakeholders can develop sustainable and collectively progressive societies.' Prof. Dr Seval Kardes Selimoglu, Anadolu University, Turkey
