Making Sustainability Work, 2nd Edition

Endnotes

Introduction

1 Greenhouse (2013) “Major Retailers Join Bangladesh Safety Plan.”

2 Brundtland (1985) Our Common Future; Elkington (2006) “The Triple Bottom Line.” In their recent book, Ehrenfeld and Hoffman (2013) develop the definition of sustainability as “the possibility that humans and other life will flourish on the Earth forever.”

3 Many terms have been used to describe this concept of sustainability. Both academic and corporate use of the words and the concepts vary widely. In some companies or countries, it may be more common to use corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, sustainability, sustainable development, corporate accountability, stakeholder management, or a variety of other terms. In this book, we will ...