[PDF] Top 20 A triple bottom line construct and reasons for implementing sustainable business practices in companies and their business networks

... As stated earlier a stakeholder is considered by Freeman (1984) as any individual, organisation or institution associated with an organisation that is either affected by the organisation in some way, or affects the ... See full document

... Sustainable business, or a green business, is an enterprise that has minimal negative impact on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy—a business that strives to meet ... See full document

... Sustainable business, or a green business, is an enterprise that has minimal negative impact on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy—a business that strives to meet ... See full document

... neural networks without a teacher – Kohonen ...analysis, companies were divided into clusters in the Kohonen map (10 x 10 ...The companies of both clusters were on the borderline of profit margins in ... See full document

... Telecommuting provides flexibility in both the hours and the location of work. Employees spend at least one day a month or more working from home while maintaining their connection to the office by phone, fax, and ... See full document

... Twelve of the FLMs have experiences with implementing HR practices. FLMs are partly selected on the basic of these experience, so the basic HR knowledge is available. FLMs agree they have enough HR ... See full document

... small companies have a range of business needs for design, but have varying levels of awareness and competency to manage design ...of companies could be discerned from the study: ‘confi dent’ and ... See full document

... A recent UNDP Report states that 10 % of the richest adults in the world today own 85% of the world's household wealth, while the bottom 50 % of adult population have only 1 % of total household wealth. These ... See full document

... showed, business schools tend to have a relatively high income per unit ...one business school - from one of the more efficient performers at both an institutional level in the above sample and a ... See full document

... a business and local government agency may gauge environmental sustainability in the same terms, say reducing the amount of solid waste that goes into landfills, but a local mass transit might measure success in ... See full document

... in business models are often options present in strategic technology ventures, where profit is fully dependent on the creation of new technologies and their specific ...result, business flexibility greater ... See full document

... of Business is to Increase its Profits’ (henceforth ‘The Social Responsibility’), an essay which has become a highly influential text within contemporary business ...of business’ (Jones, 2007: ...of ... See full document

... sustainability practices, in which Authority Ranking in the UK context was important to ensure that sustainability practices align closely with business operations, so that, business ... See full document

... 1.1.5 A major evaluation of HEFCE/BIS third stream funding from PACEC and the Cambridge University Centre for Business Research was published in 2009 2 . Part of that evaluation examined the impacts of the funding ... See full document

... different respondents as well as responses from individual interviews at different sections of the narrative in an effort to enrich the meanings of existing categories or develop new ones. Axial coding was then used by ... See full document

... on sustainable business ...traditional bottom line which mostly concentrate on profit ...following triple bottom line approach of sustainable development which ... See full document

... of business in dealing with these issues, which often stem from ideas rooted in Corporate Social Responsibility ...where companies have stepped up to the plate in order to fill in the gap when governments ... See full document

... a business process from an economic to an environmental business perspective include static sustainability models such as the Sustainability Venn Diagram, Concentric Circles, and Three Pillars of ... See full document

... of companies’ business sustainability ...forming networks or associations within which companies carry out joint projects, share risks and objectives, develop new products, optimize quality ... See full document

... Jodie is representative of Sheffield Business School’s aspiration to create student s who develop sustainable value for business. Her social enterprise is not a charity. It trades to transform the ... See full document