Clarifying the Concept of Corporate Sustainability and Providing Convergence for Its Definition
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- Broadens the analysis to the meanings of corporate sustainability alongside their definitions,
- Performs an ontological analysis through a historical excursion into the evolution of corporate sustainability and its associated concepts, and
- Performs a necessary condition analysis to identify the constitutive components of the concept of corporate sustainability.
2. Literature Review
2.1. Ontological Analysis of Corporate Sustainability
2.1.1. Sustainability, Sustainable Development and Corporate Sustainability
- Broadness: they have a large scope with multiple, overlapping and sometimes conflicting definitions;
- Normative Attractiveness: they have an overwhelmingly positive connotation—it is hard to be against them;
- Implication of Consensus: they deny or downplay the existence of conflicting interests; and
- Global Marketability: they are known and used by practitioners and academics [44].
2.1.2. Corporate Social Responsibility
2.1.3. Identified Themes around the Evolution of the Concept Corporate Sustainability
3. Methodology
4. Results & Discussion
What Is Corporate Sustainability?
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Pazienza, M.; de Jong, M.; Schoenmaker, D. Clarifying the Concept of Corporate Sustainability and Providing Convergence for Its Definition. Sustainability 2022, 14, 7838. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14137838
Pazienza M, de Jong M, Schoenmaker D. Clarifying the Concept of Corporate Sustainability and Providing Convergence for Its Definition. Sustainability. 2022; 14(13):7838. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14137838
Chicago/Turabian StylePazienza, Mariapia, Martin de Jong, and Dirk Schoenmaker. 2022. "Clarifying the Concept of Corporate Sustainability and Providing Convergence for Its Definition" Sustainability 14, no. 13: 7838. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14137838