Peter A. Soyka

Creating a Sustainable Organization

Approaches for Enhancing Corporate Value Through Sustainability

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Soyka bridges the disparate worlds of the EHS/sustainability professional and the investor/analyst, covering all this and more:
What the evidence says about linkages between sustainability and value Key stakeholder relationships influencing corporate behavior related to EHS and social equity Best practices for managing sustainability throughout the business How sustainability posture and performance can be evaluated by investors, markets, and managers How to maximize the influence of organizational actors focused on sustainability
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 competitive advantage; for analysts evaluating investments; and for researchers and MBA candidates currently studying the techniques and potential of corporate sustainability.

INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS: Instructor's Manual available for download at www.pearsonhighered.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson FT Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 100g
• ISBN-13: 9780133886573
• ISBN-10: 0133886573
• Artikelnr.: 40622801

Autorenporträt

Peter A. Soyka, President of Soyka & Company, LLC, is a highly experienced and respected sustainability and environmental management consultant. A recognized expert working at the intersection of EHS and finance, he specializes in helping companies identify and overcome the obstacles to sustainable business success.   Soyka brings a substantial track record of innovative thinking and success in devising creative solutions to the most challenging environmental/business management problems, and in translating new ideas into approaches, tools, and techniques that produce real results. Much of his recent work has involved identifying and capturing the financial and other organizational benefits of proactive environmental management and sustainability practices.   

Inhaltsangabe

 
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