Sustainability and Management

<p>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. </p><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>In <i>Sustainability and Management: An International Perspective</i>, 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.</p> <p><em>List of figures </em></p><p></p><p><em>List of tables </em></p><p></p><p><em>List of contributors </em></p><p></p><p><em>Foreword </em></p><p></p><p><em>Acknowledgements</em> </p><p></p><p>Introduction: the need of sustainability in management </p><p></p><p>Kıymet Çaliyurt and Ülkü Yüksel</p><p></p><p>PART I</p><p></p><p>Sustainability and management in Europe </p><p></p><p>1 The flawed logic of sustainable development </p><p></p><p>David Crowther and Shahla Seifi</p><p></p><p>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 </p><p></p><p>Carmela Gulluscio and Patrizia Torrecchia</p><p></p><p>3 The notion of sustainability in strategies of Polish companies: the perspective of WIG20 firms </p><p></p><p>Maria Aluchna</p><p></p><p>4 Towards a classification of consumer sustainability </p><p></p><p>Tillmann Wagner and Alexander Stich</p><p></p><p>PART II</p><p></p><p>Sustainability and management in Asia </p><p></p><p>5 Investigation of internal and external factors causing unethical behavior of accounting professionals </p><p></p><p>Ali Uyar and Ali Haydar Gungormuş</p><p>6 Corporate environmental reporting in Turkey: status and challenges </p><p></p><p>Uğur Kaya and Yaşar Bayraktar</p><p></p><p>7 Sustainability reporting in the airline industry: the case of Turkish Airlines </p><p></p><p>John Taskinsoy and Ali Uyar</p><p></p><p>8 The internal control system in the prevention of mistakes and fraud: an application in hospitality management </p><p></p><p>Mehmet Erkan, Ercüment Okutmuş and Ayse Ergül</p><p></p><p>9 Banking and sustainable development in China </p><p></p><p>Jing Bian</p><p></p><p>10 Ethical issues in business administration and their effects on</p><p></p><p>social and economic development </p><p></p><p>Rasim Abutalibov, Rufat Mammadov and Seymur M. Guliyev</p><p></p><p>11 Integrated sustainability and social responsibility communication </p><p></p><p>Duygu Türker And Huriye Toker</p><p></p><p>12 Sustainability in airlines </p><p></p><p>Hesam Shabaniverki</p><p></p><p>13 Sustainability reporting </p><p></p><p>Cağatay Akarcay and Ayca Akarcay Öğüz</p><p></p><p>PART III</p><p></p><p>Sustainability and management in the Far East </p><p></p><p>14 Ethical issues characteristics and their relevance to auditors’ ethical decision- making in Malaysia </p><p></p><p>Razana Juhaida Johari, Zuraidah Mohd Sanusi, Rashidah Abdul Rahman and Normah Omar</p><p></p><p>15 Human capital, governance and firms’ performance in public listed companies of Malaysia: is there a relationship? </p><p></p><p>Roshima Said and Noorain Omar</p><p></p><p>PART IV</p><p></p><p>Sustainability and management in Australia, the USA and Brazil</p><p></p><p>16 A narrative on teaching sustainability </p><p></p><p>Maria Lai- Ling Lam and Martha J.B. Cook</p><p>17 Sustainability and the consumer- citizen’s consumption consciousness </p><p></p><p>Julie E. Francis and Teresa Davis</p><p></p><p>18 Marketing’s role in the future of corporate sustainability efforts </p><p></p><p>Ravi Parameswaran, Krishna Parameswaran, Steven Kooy and Susan Kuzee</p><p></p><p>19 Agenda 21 as a tool for managing the relationship between companies and communiti</p>