The triple bottom line, does it all add up? assessing the sustainability of business and CSR
In this text leading experts examine the implications of the idea of the "triple bottom line"--The business strategy that delivers simultaneous financial, social and environmental benefits - showing what it has already achieved by stimulating change and bringing business to appreciate the...
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Earthscan
2004
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Straight lines and emerging messes
- Philosophy, psychology and the triple bottom line
- Transforming the patterns of 'puzzle-solving' (Kuhn, 1996)
- 'There is nothing so practical as a good theory' (Kurt Lewin)
- Puzzle-solving 'in here'
- Because there is no business-as-usual case
- Notes
- Chapter 10: Environmental Cost Accounting: Coming of Age? Tracking Organizational Performance Towards Environmental Sustainability
- Introduction
- What is environmental accounting?
- Internal environmental cost accounting
- External cost accounting
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 11: Sustainability Assessment Model: Modelling Economic, Resource, Environmental and Social Flows of a Project
- Introduction
- Sustainability Assessment Model (SAM)
- Using SAM
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 12: Social Capital at Work: A Manager's Guide
- Introduction
- Defining social capital
- The business benefits of creative trust
- Social capital at work
- The triple bottom line: does it all add up?
- Moving towards a systemic approach
- Notes
- Chapter 5: Tracking Global Governance and Sustainability: Is the System Working?
- Introduction
- Global governance
- The boundary question
- Who is taking stock globally?
- The indicator question
- So, what does it all add up to?
- Notes
- Chapter 6: Locating the Government's Bottom Line
- Chapter 7: Towards Reporting on the Triple Bottom Line: Mirages, Methods and Myths
- Introduction
- Voluntary? Reporting?
- Responsibility, accountability and meaning
- Triple bottom line
- Sustainability? Reporting?
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 8: Good Intentions
- Bad Outcomes? The Broken Promise of CSR Reporting
- Business being business
- Government limitations
- The dance of the slaves
- Breaking ranks
- Conclusions
- Chapter 9: What a Fine Mess! Moving Beyond Simple Puzzle-solving for Sustainable Development
- Introduction
- First steps
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
- List of Contributors
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Introduction: Triple Bottom Line
- Does it All Add Up?
- History and theory
- Governing and governance
- Metaphorical practice
- Good practice
- Chapter 1: Enter the Triple Bottom Line
- Seven drivers
- Three pressure waves
- The chrysalis economy
- Some implications for governments
- Chapter 2: Triple Bottom Line: A Review of the Literature
- Introduction
- TBL as a management tool
- TBL as a reporting tool
- Conclusions
- Chapter 3: CSR, Sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line
- Introduction
- Environmental, social, economic: is that it?
- What about the real bottom line?
- Do we need a capitalist system?
- The significance of diversity
- Conclusions
- Chapter 4: Accounting for Sustainability: Measuring Quantities or Enhancing Qualities?
- Introduction
- Sustainability accounting: a short exploration
- How to manage and measure social capital
- Notes
- Chapter 13: What if Business as Usual Won't Work?
- The role of standards in c