Creating a Sustainable Organization: Approaches for Enhancing Corporate Value Through Sustainability, Rough Cuts

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.

Organizations that prioritize environmental, health, and safety (EHS) issues are well placed to attract better customers, better talent, and today's growing number of socially responsible investors. But, to gain these benefits, companies must choose the right sustainability strategies, and then manage and measure them well. Now, leading business sustainability consultant Peter Soyka offers a complete and actionable guide to driving greater value through sustainability. In Creating a Sustainable Organization, Soyka bridges the disparate worlds of the EHS/sustainability professional and the investor/analyst. Readers will learn what the evidence says about linkages between sustainability and value… how to manage key stakeholder relationships influencing corporate response to EHS and social equity issues… how to effectively manage sustainability throughout the business… how to evaluate sustainability posture and performance from the standpoint of external investors and internal management… how to maximize the influence of organizational actors focused on sustainability, and much more. This book will be invaluable for all environmental, health, and safety decision-makers and professionals concerned with improving sustainability and value; for executives and strategists seeking long-term competitive advantage; for stock analysts evaluating potential investments; and for researchers and MBA candidates currently studying the techniques and potential of corporate sustainability.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction    1

Major Themes and Messages in This Book     4

A Few Disclosures and Caveats     9

Endnotes     12

Chapter 2 Background and Context     15

What Is Sustainability, and Why Is It Important to Business?     16

Why Sustainability Is and Will Remain Important to U.S. Corporations     22

Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Learned     29

What ESG/Sustainability Investing Is and Why You May Never Have Heard of It     42

Major Factors, Actors, and Trends     44

ES&G Concerns as Key Requirements and Determinants of Long-Term Business Success     47

Implications for Sustainability Professionals and Others Working on Corporate Sustainability Issues     52

Endnotes     54

Chapter 3 ES&G Issues and How They Affect the Business Enterprise    57

Environmental, Health and Safety, and Social Equity Laws and Regulations     57

An Abridged History     58

Corporate ES&G Obligations     70

Legal Liability     80

Stakeholder Expectations and Nonlegal Requirements     82

Costs and Cost Structure     89

Revenue Impacts     93

Organizational Strength and Capability     96

Endnotes     106

Chapter 4 Stakeholder Interests and Influences and the Social License to Operate    109

The Social License to Operate     111

Major Company Stakeholders     115

Typical Stakeholder Involvement in and Influence on Corporate Behavior     129

Endnotes     147

Chapter 5 Managing ES&G Issues Within the Organization    149

Relationships Among and Between EHS, Social, and Governance Issues     150

Effective ES&G Management Structures and Practices     154

Integrating Sustainability into the Company’s “Organizational DNA”     178

Endnotes     185

Chapter 6 Investors and the Power of Markets    187

Market Theory and Underlying Assumptions     188

Who Investors Are and What They Care About     194

Size and Composition of U.S. Capital Markets     197

Disclosure     201

Institutional Investors and Fiduciary Duty     209

Traditional and Emerging Security Evaluation Methods     214

Socially Re

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