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How to Manage Sustainability: A Framework for Corporate Sustainability Tools

How to Manage Sustainability: A Framework for Corporate Sustainability Tools

Yasemin Sen
ISBN13: 9781522504405|ISBN10: 1522504400|EISBN13: 9781522504412
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0440-5.ch018
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Sen, Yasemin. "How to Manage Sustainability: A Framework for Corporate Sustainability Tools." Handbook of Research on Green Economic Development Initiatives and Strategies, edited by M. Mustafa Erdoğdu, et al., IGI Global, 2016, pp. 418-439. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0440-5.ch018

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Sen, Y. (2016). How to Manage Sustainability: A Framework for Corporate Sustainability Tools. In M. Erdoğdu, T. Arun, & I. Ahmad (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Green Economic Development Initiatives and Strategies (pp. 418-439). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0440-5.ch018

Chicago

Sen, Yasemin. "How to Manage Sustainability: A Framework for Corporate Sustainability Tools." In Handbook of Research on Green Economic Development Initiatives and Strategies, edited by M. Mustafa Erdoğdu, Thankom Arun, and Imran Habib Ahmad, 418-439. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0440-5.ch018

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Abstract

Sustainability has increasingly become a critical issue for wellbeing of human life and maintaining sustainability is responsibility of many parties such as individuals, corporations or governments. When taking its social, economical, or environmental impacts into consideration, maybe the most important player in that arena is organizations and in order to take the necessary actions about sustainability, first of all a common understanding of the topic is needed. For this reason, in this chapter it is aimed to create awareness about sustainability issue and commonly used tools for management of it. In this context, definition of sustainability and four corporate sustainability management tools (Environmental Management System - EMS, Sustainable Value Stream Mapping - Sus-VSM, Total Quality Environmental Management - TQEM and Sustainable Balanced Score Card - SBSC) have been explained.

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