Special Issue "Sustainable Profit: How to Use Sustainability and Profit to Support Each Other"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Clyde Eiríkur Hull
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Guest Editor
Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
Interests: corporate social responsibility; sustainability; entrepreneurship; strategy; innovation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

A great deal of sustainability research has focused on changes in business practices and the environmental benefits these sustainable changes would yield. Relatively few studies, however, pay attention to the profitability, or lack thereof, of these potential changes. Some of the literature even suggests that the ideal approach would be for businesses to forgo profits while becoming sustainable. Businesses need profits to survive, however. The goal of this Special Issue is to explore how sustainability can be pursued profitably, because profitable sustainability will be enacted far faster than sustainability that is unprofitable or for which no business case has been made.

Papers accepted for this Special Issue will offer new insights into such topics as:

  • How the existing conclusions of sustainability research can be rapidly enacted through demonstrated profitability;
  • How management theory and empirical work can support the profitable pursuit of sustainability;
  • Policy approaches that make sustainability more profitable.

Prof. Dr. Clyde Eiríkur Hull
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainability
  • economic growth
  • circular economy
  • industrial symbiosis
  • profit
  • financial performance

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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