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Purpose: The author sets out the basis for a new research programme designed to demonstrate that by encouraging managers of small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs [1]) to take a positive approach to social and environmental risks, embedding and operationalising their responses into their business strategy, they may enjoy a range of positive business benefits, as has been demon-strated by larger companies.
Approach: The author sets out an overview of recently-published research showing the wide range of business benefits that larger companies have enjoyed by embedding a positive approach to global sustainability issues, illustrating the broader studies with two high-profile examples. He posits that by encouraging managers of smaller businesses to incorporate social and environmental risks into their strategy development, they too may enjoy these business benefits.
Implications: The author suggests this positive approach will counter the current response of many SME managers - that responding to social and environmental threats will incur additional costs to their business. He advocates further research be completed to verify this hypothesis. (original abstract)
Approach: The author sets out an overview of recently-published research showing the wide range of business benefits that larger companies have enjoyed by embedding a positive approach to global sustainability issues, illustrating the broader studies with two high-profile examples. He posits that by encouraging managers of smaller businesses to incorporate social and environmental risks into their strategy development, they too may enjoy these business benefits.
Implications: The author suggests this positive approach will counter the current response of many SME managers - that responding to social and environmental threats will incur additional costs to their business. He advocates further research be completed to verify this hypothesis. (original abstract)
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- Ronald Endley Ainsbury, Netherlands
Bibliografia
- Barbon, D., Wiseman, M. (2013), "Focusing capital on the long term", McKinsey & Company.
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- Eccles, R. G, Ioannou, I., Serafeim, G. (2013), "The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance", Harvard Business School, Working Paper 12 - 035.
- Elkington, J. (1997), "Cannibals with forks: the Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business", Capstorre.
- Grayson, D., McLaren, M., Spitzuk, H. (2014), Social Intrapreneurism and all that jazz, Greenleaf.
- Jenkins, H. (2006), "Small Business Champions for Corporate Social Responsibility", Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 67, pp. 241-256.
- Rochlin, S., Bliss, R., Jordan, S., Kiser, C. Y. (2015), "Project ROI", Babson College and 10 Sustainablity.
- Schumpeter, (2014), "A new green ware", The Economist, August 30th 2014.
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