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Sustainable Development as a Management Challenge

Sustainable Development as a Management Challenge

Kaisa Sorsa
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 26
ISBN13: 9781522552888|ISBN10: 152255288X|EISBN13: 9781522552895
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5288-8.ch004
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Sorsa, Kaisa. "Sustainable Development as a Management Challenge." Cases on Quality Initiatives for Organizational Longevity, edited by Archana Krishnan, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 92-117. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5288-8.ch004

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Sorsa, K. (2018). Sustainable Development as a Management Challenge. In A. Krishnan (Ed.), Cases on Quality Initiatives for Organizational Longevity (pp. 92-117). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5288-8.ch004

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Sorsa, Kaisa. "Sustainable Development as a Management Challenge." In Cases on Quality Initiatives for Organizational Longevity, edited by Archana Krishnan, 92-117. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5288-8.ch004

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Abstract

Quality management is core area of every company. Sustainable development has become another core issue for the companies encompassing ecological, economic, and social issues. Companies need to decide how sustainable development can be managed in order to achieve both organizational and global sustainability. The aim of the case study is to discuss how sustainability is being incorporated into company management practices in the Finnish coffee company. It also aims to deepen the understanding about the implementation of sustainable development management practices in companies. The ecological challenge consists in reducing the burden that economic activities place on ecosystems directly and indirectly. The successful management improves the company's ecological effectiveness. The social challenge improves the business task of improving the sum of its social impacts. Economic challenge is composed in increasing eco-efficiency and improving social efficiency. There is a need for methodological integration of environmental and social management with their concepts and instruments in conventional, economically oriented management.

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