Corporate Sustainability Management

Abstract

This is a book about the advent of a new management discipline, its origins, the trouble it’s in, and how to save it. The management discipline we speak of, of course, is corporate sustainability management, or CSM; and the trouble it’s in involves nothing less that its own credibility and prospects for survival. Indeed, as we will show on the pages that follow, CSM has thus far failed to accomplish the one thing it was intended to do, which is make it possible for organizations to measure, manage and report their sustainability performance in a rigorous way. In fact, CSM in its present form does nothing of the kind – literally – despite common representations to the contrary. On the pages that follow, we will explain exactly how it is that CSM fails to do so, and what can be done about it.