Global issues including climate change, migration, and population development mean that sustainability management has never been a more vital area of concern for organisations worldwide. This engaging and comprehensive textbook helps to develop an understanding of key issues and enables applying sustainability concepts and theories to real-world management scenarios. This text is essential reading for all those interested in sustainable development for business and society.
The second edition includes up-to-date case illustrations from around the world of sustainable and unsustainable business practice and is supported by the latest research evidence in the field.
This text provides the most comprehensive introduction to sustainability management topics and challenges for today’s students. Chapters address key concepts and definitions in sustainable development, the perspectives of stakeholders including employees, consumers, and investors, as well as sustainability tools and strategies applied across management functions.
Essential topic coverage for today’s business and management students:
Flexible learning features and global examples:
Part A. Introduction to sustainable development and sustainability management
Part B. Stakeholder perspectives on sustainability management
Part C. Functional perspectives of sustainability management
Comprehensive, timely, badly needed: see what other experts say about the book.
This is the sustainability management textbook we have been waiting for. Cutting edge, innovative, and comprehensive, Rüdiger Hahn sets the standard for the next generation of texts that address the most important challenges facing business today.
This book is a wonderful, timely, and badly needed resource for instructors. Hahn approaches the challenge of sustainability pluralistically, viewing it from many stakeholder perspectives but also from the perspectives of functional areas in organizations. The text is both very current and built on a flexible framework. In the dynamic, unfolding field of sustainability management, this is an essential quality.
This is a wonderful textbook that unpacks and explains the complex topic of ‘sustainability,’ and very nicely explains the relationship between sustainable development at a macro level and sustainability management at a company level. It is erudite in terms of the academic research that has been done while explaining its’ relevance in a clear way to any reader. I learned many things I didn’t know about how far back the idea of sustainability goes, if not by that name. Examples, profiles, and videos are effectively used to illustrate the key ideas. This is more than a textbook. It’s a handbook for anyone who is interested in sustainability from the most to the least sophisticated.
Finally, a book fully focused on sustainability management! This book gives an excellent overview of the strategic and operational dimensions of making sustainability a reality in contemporary business.
Finally! One of the leading scholars on sustainable business takes the classroom into the 21st century. This book provides cutting-edge state-of-the-art knowledge in a contemporary, accessible and authoritative way. It is a must-read for students, executives, and thought leaders interested in the management of sustainability.
Rüdiger Hahn’s outstanding textbook continues to excel in sustainability management learning! The book succeeds in capturing the multi-faceted challenges of sustainable development combined with strategic solutions as well as specific instruments of sustainability management. The book is clearly written and easy to follow for beginners, but at the same time offers comprehensive knowledge for more advanced learners. The book is highly timely and succeeds in achieving an excellent balance between the big picture of sustainability management and the necessary level of detail. Great help for teachers and students alike!
Sustainability management can only be comprehensive when it allows for tensions, and thoroughly considers the perspective of the Global South. This textbook by Rüdiger Hahn presents the reader with tools to enable them to deal with tensions, and will be helpful to both decision-makers and communities in raising awareness of the importance of diverse perspectives.
Professor Rüdiger Hahn holds the Henkel-Endowed Chair of Sustainability Management at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany. Professor Hahn has a wealth of experience teaching sustainability management and corporate social responsibility for over twenty years and is a highly recognized scholar in the field.
