Even Figure Firm: How To Build A Successful Business That Grows Itself

Erin

Botsford

Greenleaf

Switching Gears

Dan K. Eberhart

* Identifies the mind-sets and skills that have helped social intrapreneurs to be successful* Reveals how creative social innovators are improvising alliances* The first book to focus on how intrapreneurs are changing business for the good from the inside of large organizations* Based on years of research from the Cranfield School of ManagementIn response to the world’s rapidly-growing social, economic and environmental challenges, a growing wave of “social intrapreneurs” are harnessing the power of large companies to create new business solutions to address societal problems.Social Intrapreneurism and All That Jazz reveals how these highly creative social innovators are improvising alliances across, as well as beyond, their companies to create micro-insurance products for low-income people; offer delivery services to millions of small businesses in slums around the world; develop alternative-energy solutions inside a major gas and oil corporation; partner with a Brazilian community to produce new natural care products; establish a “green” advertising network within a major media company; apply engineering expertise to help alleviate poverty and much more – all while generating commercial value for their companies.Distilling insights from interviews with social intrapreneurs, their colleagues and experts around the world, the authors bring to life how business can be about more than just maximizing profit. They identify the mind-sets, behaviors and skills that have helped successful social intrapreneurs journey from initial idea to roll-out by their company – and some of the pitfalls. They also tell the stories of the intrapreneurs’ managers and other colleagues who helped them get there, by providing support to help bring projects to fruition.Perhaps the most important lesson from this book is that, in contrast with the prevailing Western business archetype of the solitary entrepreneurial hero, successful social intrapreneurs do not act alone to achieve success. Although their journeys may be lonely at times and require considerable hard work while working “against the grain” of large conventional businesses, successful social intrapreneurs are, above all, great communicators who inspire others to join them in achieving a higher purpose beyond the realms of conventional business.Drawing on the metaphors of ensemble jazz music-making, the authors describe how “woodshedding”, “jamming”, “paying your dues”, being a “sideman”, joining and building a “band” but, above all, “listening” to what is happening in business and the wider world – are all part of the life of a successful social intrapreneurism project.Whether you’re an aspiring social intrapreneur who wants to change the world while keeping your day job, or want to renew the entrepreneurial spirit of your own company, this book is for you.

Social Intrapreneurism and All That Jazz: How Business Innovators are Helping to Build a More Sustainable World

Business & Money

Grayson, David

McLaren, Melody

Spitzeck, Heiko

Economics

Since the inception of the United Nations Global Compact-sponsored initiative Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) in 2007, there has been increased debate over how to adapt management education to best meet the demands of the 21st-century business environment. While consensus has been reached by the majority of globally focused management education institutions that sustainability must be incorporated into management education curricula, the relevant question is no longer why management education should change, but how. The PRME initiative is set to increase to 1,000 signatories worldwide by 2015. Alongside encouraging new institutions to participate in the initiative, the Inspirational Guide volumes cultivate and inspire actively engaged PRME participants. The Guides have been written with the aim of enabling participants to transition from a global learning community to an action community. Following the two previous volumes of the Inspirational Guide for the Implementation of PRME, the PRME UK and Ireland Chapter have compiled this volume which collects the experiences of some of the PRME UK and Ireland Chapter institutions. The Guide answers some of the most frequently asked questions concerning the implementation of PRME and celebrates some of the best examples of innovation and leadership by highlighting real-world examples from the most engaged signatories in the UK and Ireland.

Inspirational Guide for the Implementation of PRME (The Principles for Responsible Management Education Series)

Principles for Responsible Management Education

Business Culture

The Business Student's Guide to Sustainable Management: Principles and Practice (The Principles for Responsible Management Education Series)

Aimed at undergraduates, this is the first textbook to offer a full introduction to sustainable management, covering all subject areas relevant to business students. The book includes chapters and seminars on subjects such as: Corporate Sustainable Strategy Sustainable Marketing Sustainability Reporting Supply Chain Management Human Resources Management: Supporting Sustainable Business Environmental Economics Sustainable Operations Management Greenhouse Gas Management System Thinking in Sustainable Management The book contains nearly 30 ready-made seminars employing various teaching methods. Each chapter follows the same, easy-to-use format, providing a true treasure chest of materials to support staff wanting to integrate sustainability into their teaching and provides support to effectively embed sustainability in the curriculum. The material is not just useful to people in business schools, but to those involved in wider scale curriculum change, and those looking to make links between different disciplines.

Molthan-Hill, Petra

Based on years of research, consulting, teaching, and first hand experience working in sustainable businesses, Sustainable Small Business Management outlines a proven process to craft and implement a profit driven strategy for sustainability, targeted primarily at the substantial market of small to medium enterprises (SMEs).  With SMEs now representing 50% of business revenue and employment in the United States, this book has been written to provide a practical and proven resource to guide the development and implementation of a profit driven strategy for sustainability by SMEs. The book defines the often interchangeably used terms sustainable business, triple bottom line, and socially responsible business. It traces the "values" driven emergence of sustainable business among niche consumer product companies, such as Stonyfield Farm and Patagonia, which eventually led to proving the viability of socially responsible business.  More recently, large businesses, including Walmart and GE, have embraced environmental sustainability, compelled by the "value" driven cost savings and brand benefits. Building on this, the author outlines a process for developing and implementing a profit driven strategy for sustainability that is practical to implement and achieve by the majority of SMEs.

Sustainable Small Business Management: A Profit Driven Approach

Fleming, Karen

With SMEs now representing 50% of business revenue and employment in the United States, this book has been written to provide a practical and proven resource to guide the development and implementation of a profit driven strategy for sustainability by SMEs. The book defines the often interchangeably used terms sustainable business, triple bottom line, and socially responsible business. It traces the values driven emergence of sustainable business among niche consumer product companies, such as Stonyfield Farm and Patagonia, which eventually led to proving the viability of socially responsible business.  More recently, large businesses, including Walmart and GE, have embraced environmental sustainability, compelled by the value driven cost savings and brand benefits.  Building on this, the author outlines a process for developing and implementing a profit driven strategy for sustainability that is practical to implement and achieve by the majority of SMEs.

The Interdependent Organization provides its readers with a template for the development of an individualized transition plan to guide their journey toward becoming more organizationally sustainable.  We as humans tend to rely on our current set of assumptions when we evaluate our actions and their potential impact on the future.  With today’s ever increasing rate of change in technology, our access to information and cultural interactions (interdependence) around the world, the reliance on old ways of thinking (linear) will not allow us to effectively transition into the systems-based world of tomorrow.       The Interdependent Organization presents a deeper understanding of the financial, operational, and cultural crossroads we are facing as a planet, and introduces a systems-based transitional path that individuals, organizations, and societies can draw on to move towards a more holistic and sustainable future. The book provides readers with the necessary understanding and insight into systems, systems-thinking, and the use of systems-based business tools to guide the sustainability journey, while producing a positive impact to the organization’s bottom-line, its employee engagement, and its stakeholders’ expectations in each of the journeys three stages.  The journey begins with the adoption of simple yet powerful systems-based tools for managing the organization’s operations and projects. These proven tools provide increased productivity with a proven bottom-line improvement that exceeds 30%.  This introduction to systems-based tools and thinking provides the organization with the time to become more familiar with this new way of thinking and making business decisions before they expand their exposure to broader, more complex systems-based and sustainable practices.  The second stage of this journey is focused on introducing new tools and practices to insure a consistent set of measures are used across the organization.  The third and final stage focuses on aligning the organization’s people-management practices.

The Interdependent Organization: The Path to a More Sustainable Enterprise

Draman, Rexford H.

The Responsible Investor Handbook: Mobilizing Workers' Capital for a Sustainable World (The Responsible Investment Series)

For decades, workers’ capital stewards have invested wisely to provide a secure retirement for millions of people around the world. This money – our money – represents an enormous share of economic and capital market wealth. It has seeded and grown innumerable innovative industries that have had far-reaching impacts. However, the 2008 financial crisis has seriously threatened these trusted assets and drained away prosperity.In response, a growing number of investors are moving towards responsible investment policies and strategies, addressing the rising expectations of consumers and benefiting from the financial advantages such strategies bring. Everyday citizens now want to see their investments not only do well, but do good. But, what constitutes responsible investment, and how can it be undertaken in practice? What is the impact of responsible investment strategies on investment performance? How can trustees, managers and advisors implement these strategies in line with their fiduciary responsibilities? How can plan trustees and staff members convince all stakeholders of the need to invest in resilient growth?The Responsible Investor Handbook, commissioned by the AFL-CIO and global progressive investors, is a lay-friendly “how-to” manual, sharing the best in responsible investment practice with capital stewards and other policy leaders who want to do the right thing with our common wealth.This invaluable toolkit enables readers to: Understand the pioneering role of workers’ capital in building infrastructure and vital services Devise a responsible investment strategy Select and monitor service providers Bring on board stakeholders with conflicting interests Avoid short-termism The Responsible Investor Handbook is the first book devoted to aligning the long-term investment priorities of working people with capital stewards and the financial complex that manages their assets. It is an essential read for trustees and capital stewards seeking the positive outcomes of a responsible investment strategy; pension and institutional investors looking to realign their strategies with the interests of workers and citizens; and any professional seeking a better understanding of the importance of responsible investment and its impact on capital markets.

Croft, Thomas

Malhotra, Annie

There is no single code or standard, no panacea that will lead to corporate responsibility (CR). Yet, now, more than ever before, corporations are waking up to the fact that they must adopt codes and implement standards to satisfy the growing demands of an ever-wider and ever-less-trustful spectrum of stakeholders. So, where do companies start? Information overload is nowhere more apparent than in the field of CR. There are millions of pages and web pages written on codes and standards, but most of it is spin: organisations punting to sell their code or standard. The reality is that CR is an emerging field, a new terrain for which maps are much needed, but often imprecise. Each company is different, each with its own challenges, corporate culture, unique set of stakeholders, and management systems. Corporate responsibility is a journey for which, today, there is no single map but a multitude of codes and standards that can be combined in new ways for different journeys. In her many lectures around the world, CSR consultant Deborah Leipziger has been asked the same question over and over again: "What are the best standards for companies seeking to be socially responsible?" Over the course of more than a decade, she has analysed hundreds of codes of conduct and standards to answer that question. This indispensable resource is the result. The Corporate Responsibility Code Book is a guide for companies trying to understand the landscape of corporate responsibility and searching for their own, unique route towards satisfying diverse stakeholders. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. A company may face quite different challenges if it operates in more than part of the world. And yet stakeholders, especially consumers and investors, are keen for some degree of comparability with which they can evaluate corporate performance. There are countervailing forces at work within corporate responsibility: on the one hand is the need for convergence in order to simplify the large numbers of codes and standards; and, on the other hand, the need to foster diversity and innovation. Many of the best codes of conduct and standards are not well known while some CR instruments that are well disseminated are not terribly effective. Some comprehensive codes of conduct achieve nothing, while other quite vague codes of conduct become well embedded into the organisation and foster innovation and change. The book explains some of the best CR instruments available, and distils their most valuable elements. The goal of the book is to help companies select, develop and implement social and environmental codes of conduct. It demonstrates how the world's leading companies are implementing global codes of conduct, including the United Nations Global Compact, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, Social Accountability 8000 (SA 8000) and AccountAbility 1000 (AA 1000). The codes in this book cover a wide range of issues, including human rights, labour rights, environmental management, corruption and corporate governance. The book also includes how-to (or process) codes focusing on reporting, stakeholder engagement and assurance. This book is based on interviews with the standard-setters, the implementers of standards, academics, activists and other key stakeholders from around the world; and in many cases includes the full text of the code profiled. Each of the standards and codes described has been shared with the promulgators of the instrument to ensure that the information is as up to date as possible. The Corporate Responsibility Code Book will be an invaluable tool for companies developing their own code, but will also be a key tool for companies with a strong track record in CR, seeking to understand the interrelationships among codes and standards to create their own corporate vision. It will be the key reference text on corporate codes of conduct for many years to come.

The Corporate Responsibility Code Book

Deborah Leipziger

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Even Figure Firm: How To Build A Successful Business That Grows Itself

Switching Gears

Social Intrapreneurism and All That Jazz: How Business Innovators are Helping to Build a More Sustainable World

Inspirational Guide for the Implementation of PRME (The Principles for Responsible Management Education Series)

The Business Student's Guide to Sustainable Management: Principles and Practice (The Principles for Responsible Management Education Series)

Sustainable Small Business Management: A Profit Driven Approach

Sustainable Small Business Management: A Profit Driven Approach

The Interdependent Organization: The Path to a More Sustainable Enterprise

The Responsible Investor Handbook: Mobilizing Workers' Capital for a Sustainable World (The Responsible Investment Series)

The Corporate Responsibility Code Book