The Sustainable Development Goals and the Business Sector
Trends and Implementation Challenges
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all by 2030. While in the past, the overarching purpose of the companies was to enhance shareholder value, the SDGs also provide an opportunity for companies to reinvent their purpose considering the needs of various stakeholders and contribute towards a more sustainable future.
The research presented here assimilates fresh insights into the implementation challenges companies face concerning the adoption of the SDGs and how they can effectively align business strategies in addressing the SDGs and brings together diverse perspectives and novel research investigating how the business sector is engaging and contributing toward achieving the SDGs.
Contributing to an evolving albeit nascent field of inquiry and providing new perspectives on the role of businesses in achieving the SDGs, The Sustainable Development Goals and the Business Sector is an important read for corporate practitioners, policymakers, consultants, supranational organizations’ experts, academics, students who seek to understand linkages between business sustainability and the SDGs discourse in developing, emerging, and developed economies.
Corporate Sustainability and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Global Challenges and Opportunities book series examines the broad agenda of the SDGs, which requires the participation of multiple disciplines and sectors to be delivered.
PART I. INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1. The Sustainable Development Goals and The Business Sector: Trends and Implementation Challenges; Gabriel Eweje and Aymen Sajjad
- PART II. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: AN ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSPECTIVE
- Chapter 2. Partnering for SDGS: Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships and Women Entrepreneurship in Africa; Susan Martha Dambudzo Bvochora and Ilaria Galavotti
- Chapter 3. The Promise of Transnational Entrepreneurs in Contributing to Sustainable Cities; Louisa Jantos, Sitong (Michelle) Chen, Benjamin Fath, and Antje Fiedler
- PART III. LEVERAGING CORPORATE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN EMERGING ECONOMIES
- Chapter 4. The Role of CSR in achieving SDGs: A Case Study from Bhutan; Deki Choden
- Chapter 5. Advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Corporate Engagement: Challenges and Opportunities in Nigeria; Olatunde Ogunwole, Franklin Nakpodia, and Mary Nanyondo
- Chapter 6. The Mining Industry and The Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana; Gideon Jojo Amos and Prince Amoah
- Chapter 7. Sustainable Tourism and SMEs: Aligning Business Models with SDGs in Sri Lanka; Madura Thivanka Pathirana, Thilini Vimukthika Kelaniyage, and Upuli Sachithra Warnakula
- PART IV. RE-ENVISIONING CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, MODERN SLAVERY, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, AND WORK-INTEGRATED LEARNING THROUGH THE LENS OF SDGs
- Chapter 8. Sustainability Committees in Boardrooms: Practical Relevance and Research Agenda; Karim S. Rebeiz and Roula Al Daia
- Chapter 9. Modern Slavery and Sustainable Development Goals: How Should Businesses Respond?; Keze Zhang, Rahizah Sulaiman, Majid Khan, and Omer Nazir
- Chapter 10. Green IT Project Management and its Influence on Sustainability: Insights from Top 100 IT Companies; Karim S. Rebeiz, Hala Khayr Yaacoub, Nad Ghantous, and Kareem Salka
- Chapter 11. Equipping Future Business Leaders: The Role of Work-Integrated Learning in Sustainability; Bridget Tombleson and Katharina Wolf
Gabriel Eweje is Professor of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability in the School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia.
Aymen Sajjad is Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Business Management at Massey Business School, Massey University, New Zealand.