Creating a Sustainable Organization

Name: Creating a Sustainable Organization
Author: Peter A. Soyka

Approaches for Enhancing Corporate Value Through Sustainability

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Paperback, blz. | Engels

Pearson Education | e druk, 2014

ISBN13: 9780133886573

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“With investors increasingly concerned about whether they have appropriately priced ESG-related fat tail risks in their portfolios, Peter’s book provides a timely explanation as to why financial markets care about how companies manage their material sustainability issues, set performance targets for them, and then embed ESG principles into their core business.”

–Abyd Karmali, Managing Director and Global Head of Carbon Markets, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

“Soyka brings a fresh and grounded view of corporate sustainability that understands the critical need to bridge the environmental and financial worlds. He makes it clear that sustainability is multidisciplinary and that leadership companies align it with core business drivers and metrics. Creating a Sustainable Organization is a valuable work that should be required for any professional seeking to align sustainability with business success.”

–Joel Makower, Chairman and Executive Editor, GreenBiz Group; author, Strategies for the Green Economy

“In Creating a Sustainable Organization, Peter Soyka has woven together a wealth of personal experience, industry commentary, data, and academic analysis to present a compelling argument in favor of promoting corporate sustainability. But he doesn’t stop there–his primary accomplishment is in establishing a guide for present and future sustainability practitioners to pursue sustainability as an engine for value creation within their firms. Peter has given us insightful–and in some cases, uncomfortable–analysis. Those of us in the business of evaluating companies from the outside have as much to learn from Peter as those on the inside.”

–Mark E. Bateman, President, Segue Point LLC; Director of Research, IW Financial

Sustainability and socially responsible investing (SRI) are each attracting growing attention from financial institutions, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), private investors, citizens, and policymakers. In Creating a Sustainable Organization, Peter A. Soyka links these trends, showing how to use organizational sustainability to drive greater value for shareholders and other corporate stakeholders.

Soyka employs the powerful construct of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ES&G) posture and performance, showing how it integrates environmental, health, safety, and social issues with governance. You’ll learn how ES&G compares with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the “triple bottom line,” and how and when to use it to improve (or evaluate) a company’s performance and investment potential.

Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) and sustainability professionals will gain a deeper understanding of how the financial community operates, what its members value, what motivates its behavior, and the basis of its growing interest in corporate sustainability. At the same time, investors and investment analysts will develop broader and deeper insight into how sustainability issues affect companies’ performance and prospects, and which sustainability practices create the foundation for long-term value creation.

Covers all this and more:

• How sustainability affects enterprise value: the latest data

• Barriers to corporate sustainability—and how they can be overcome

• The surprising ways key financial players are now promoting sustainability

• Responding to the growing diversity and sophistication of EHS stakeholders

• Managing sustainability more successfully throughout the organization

• Defining, measuring, and reporting on sustainability more effectively

• Tracking sustainability performance from the investor’s viewpoint

• Bridging the viewpoints of EHS and the financial/investment community

• Becoming a more effective and influential EHS/sustainability professional

Specificaties

ISBN13:9780133886573

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Paperback

Uitgever:Pearson Education

Hoofdrubriek:Economie, Inkoop en logistiek

Inhoudsopgave

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 Responsible Investing (SRI) and ES&G Investing     227 ES&G Evaluation and Investing Methods     232 Barriers to ES&G Investing     239 International Situation and Trends     247 Analysts, Rating Agencies, Data Providers, and Other Intermediaries     251 Trends and Potential Game-Changers     254 Summary and Implications     261 Endnotes     263 Chapter 7 The Financial Impact of Effective (or Ineffective) ES&G/Sustainability Management     267 Insights from the Literature     268 Surveys of Corporate and Investor Attitudes and Beliefs     289 Summary and Implications     299 Endnotes     305 Chapter 8 Defining, Measuring, and Reporting ES&G Performance    307 Why Performance Measurement and Reporting Are Crucial     308 ES&G Data, Information, Knowledge, and Insight     308 Major ES&G Data Types and Sources     310 Creating Knowledge and Insight from Corporate and Industry ES&G Information     314 Key Needs and Gaps     321 Sustainability Reporting: Extent of Use     323 Evaluation of Current ES&G Reporting Practices, Limitations, and Trends     327 ES&G Research and Analysis Firms     339 Potential Improvements     351 Endnotes     356 Chapter 9 Making It Happen in Your Organization    359 Creating Sustainable Value for the Enterprise     360 Implications for Sustainability Professionals     369 What It Takes     372 Closing Thoughts     380 Endnotes     380 References    381 Index    393

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