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The significant increase of deteriorating environmental and social conditions in many parts of the world indicate that sustainability as a whole may be threatened. Thus corporate sustainability has become a very desired objective and of fundamental importance not only for compani...

Abstract The recent years has arisen a global discussion in relation with how to incorporate sustainability at a business level. Corporate sustainability is a multidimensional concept, is the translation of Sustainable Development concept at a business level. Sustainability in or...

AbstractSustainability indicators allow to capture urban environment features and reveal the urban (in)sustainability, generating information that support urban public policies and the development process. Based on this evidence, the paper aims to propose a model for urban sustai...

The study aims to map and analyse the integration of sustainability into the management control (MC) practices of companies in Brazil. Sustainability was represented by the economic, envinronmental and social dimensions of the triple bottom line approach (ELKINGTON, 1997), and ma...

Abstract The paper investigates the impact of corporate sustainability on asset prices. For that purpose, we develop a novel corporate sustainability factor and test the extent to which this factor is priced in an augmented four-factor version of the traditional Fama & French (19...

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Within the area of NGO sustainability, this dissertation attempts to understand the effects of NGOs efforts to generate their own income in Brazil and how this affects the sustainability of these organizations. After a literature review of the area of sustainability and NGO susta...

This research approaches Corporate Sustainability by the individual and organizational competencies perspective. The main objectives were to identify the necessary competencies to support the EBX Group¿s ¿ holding that focuses its activities in the infra-structure and natural res...

The work analyzes the political/institutional links and technological formats of agroforestry systems in the Caí and Taquari river valleys of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul in an effort to determine a value for their ability to endure: their sustainability. Sustainabili...

This paper proposes a conceptual model to facilitate incorporation of sustainability into business practices, learning from the context of companies operating in Latin America - more specifically, in Brazil - that excel in terms of sustainability initiatives. Five large companies...

What is sustainability? How does one deal with the issue of sustainability in the field of a civil society organization (CSO), within the Brazilian context? This present dissertation, developed in the Academic Masters Program of Administration at the Federal University of Bahia, ...

One of the great challenges of agriculture in the State of Sergipe is to characterize the sustainability of production systems, and also offer tools and solutions for the certification of agricultural products. This, the objective was to assess the sustainability of production sy...

Currently there is a need for the development and application of techniques for environmental monitoring and provide data showing reliable, practical and easy to obtain the main spheres of public and population inserted in a given ecosystem. One such technique is the application ...

The growing concern with the current model of economic development and its consequences for society and the environment led authorities to undertake major global debates on sustainability. Converging with this fact, organizations of several industrial sectors are becoming more aw...

The growing concern with the current model of economic development and its consequences for society and the environment led authorities to undertake major global debates on sustainability. Converging with this fact, organizations of several industrial sectors are becoming more aw...

The focus of this thesis is an inquiry into the paradigm of sustainability. A counterpoint that emerges from this inquiry is a reflection on unsustainability. The study revisits proposals for utopian societal models with the aim of developing an interface with the ideals of susta...

Our development model is characterized by high consumption of natural resources and environmental degradation. The limitations of natural resources quantity as well as the environmental and climate changes resulting from these characteristics show that this framework is unsustain...

Coming across the accelerated and constantly increasing of transformations caused by human beings in nature, thats resulting in uncountable environmental problems, humanity has adopted to its development and as its manly challenge, to reach sustainability. Considering sustainabil...

Resumo Existem consideráveis dificuldades em alinhar discursos e ações relativos à sustentabilidade, o que se deve em parte ao tratamento compartimentalizado de suas dimensões. O objetivo deste ensaio é analisar, a partir da literatura existente, de que forma essas dimensões são ...

This work considers the sustainability in the context of managing companies operating in Brazil. It focuses on Brazilian companies recognized by a national magazine that publishes an annual Sustainability Guide, aiming to develop theoretical and practical models for the assessmen...

How do long-term global trends affect a transition to sustainability? We emphasize the “multitrend” nature of 10 classes of trends, which makes them complex, contradictory, and often poorly understood. Each class includes trends that make a sustainability transition more feasi...