Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2018

Publication Title

Organization & Environment

Volume

31

Issue

4

Pages

287-313

Publisher Name

SAGE Publishing

Abstract

Businesses are increasingly adopting sustainability, yet the environment continues to decline. This research responds to Dyllick and Muff’s assertion that this paradox is caused by a constricted understanding of the meaning of corporate sustainability, lack of inclusion of constructs from related streams of literature, and failure to integrate micro and macro perspectives of sustainability. The current research addresses these concerns through an integration of 22 microand macro-level models of stages of development from literature in corporate sustainability, corporate social responsibility, environmental management, and sustainable development. This integration results in a new unified model of stages of corporate sustainability that broadens the current narrowly constricted understanding of corporate sustainability, extends the paradigm of corporate sustainability beyond the business case and into the realm of ecological science and strong sustainability, and sheds light on the paradox.

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Author Posting. © SAGE Publishing, 2018. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of SAGE Publishing for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Organization & Environment, Volume 31, Issue 4, December 1st, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026617717456

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