Business & the sustainable development goals : : a framework for effective corporate involvement / / Rob van Tulder.

• VerfasserIn: van Tulder, Rob,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : Erasmus University Rotterdam,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: RSM Series on Positive Change
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (123 pages)

This short book presents a framework for making corporate strategies effective for sustainable development. This framework is a condensed result of a variety of interdisciplinary research and teaching projects, organised with colleagues in academia, practitioners at companies, civil society organisa...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• PART I WHY? The creation of the SDGs - A new paradigm for progress?
• 1.1 Introduction: the entry of a new frame for grand challenges
• 1.2 The sustainable development challenge: preconditions for a new paradigm
• 1.3 The creation of a new paradigm: from MDGs to SDGs
• 1.4 Reception of the SDGs: support and critique
• 1.5 Conclusion: a promising and intriguing agenda
• PART II WHAT AND WHO? The SDGs as 'Wicked problems' - Who shouldaddress what?
• 2.1 Sources of wickedness: what implications for thinking about the SDGs?
• 2.2 Intensity of wickedness: what makes the SDGs wicked?
• 2.3 Sources of ambiguity
• 2.4 Addressing the SDGs: societal triangulation
• 2.5 Linking what and who: the choice for targets, indicators and a common agenda
• 2.6 The Specific SDG elaboration
• 2.7 Conclusion: a promising agenda with considerable gaps
• PART III HOW? A framework for corporate strategies in support of the SDGs.
• 3.1 Introduction: how can companies contribute to the SDGs?
• 3.2 Dealing with societal issues: business cases and materiality
• 3.3 Breaking through the reactive threshold: strategic tipping points
• 3.4 Making it functional: breaking through further conservative management layers
• 3.5 How can companies contribute to specific SDGs?
• 3.6 How do companies at present contribute to the SDGs?
• 3.7 Framework: how can companies better contribute to the SDGs?
• Bibliography.