Research 23 (2012) 205–223 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Management Accounting Research journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/mar Configuring management control systems: Theorizing the integration of strategy and sustainability Jean-Pascal Gond a‚∗ ‚ Suzana Grubnic b‚1 ‚ Christian Herzig c‚2 ‚ Jeremy Moon c‚3 a b c Cass Business School‚ City University‚ 106 Bunhill Row‚ EC1Y 8TZ London‚ UK Loughborough University‚ School of Business and Economics‚ Loughborough‚
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enhance people’s lives‚ giving them easy access to quality of life benefits. Doing this in a simple and straightforward way illustrates what their slogan mean by "sense and simplicity". In the growth initiatives of Philips‚ emerging markets and sustainability will be key focus elements because it both makes great business sense and because it perfectly fits with their mission "to improve the quality of people’s lives". The company itself knows that it must create conditions where entrepreneurship‚
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2012 EMS Recommendations Riordan Manufacturing wants to improve its sustainability practices. In this paper Learning Team C summarizes the business audit assessments on Table one that contains important objectives‚ targets‚ and programs involving sustainability. The next section identifies and summarizes the relevant technologies‚ strategies‚ products‚ and practices that increase sustainability. Learning Team C also identifies three best practices that Riordan Manufacturing should
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The assessment has been conducted using both the sustainability principles and backcasting planning method of the unifying Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development‚ promoted by The Natural Step in collaboration with its international research and practitioner networks. Four science‐based sustainability principles from the framework describe success in terms of the conditions needed for a sustainable society‚ providing an operational definition of sustainability that allows for a gap analysis between where we
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A New Era of Sustainability UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010 A New Era of Sustainability CEO reflections on progress to date‚ challenges ahead and the impact of the journey toward a sustainable economy. Peter Lacy Tim Cooper Rob Hayward Lisa Neuberger June 2010 Contents Foreword ...........................................................................02 Introduction .....................................................................03 Acknowledgement of CEO participants
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1) You intend to open a trendy restaurant in Toronto’s posh‚ Yorkville district. List ten (10) specific procedures‚ guidelines or activities that you can engage in at the restaurant‚ in order to attempt to be either environmentally-friendly or to build a sustainable business. The suggestions should directly relate to the restaurant’s operations‚ its procurement policy or its marketing plans ANS: So finally I have decided to follow my dreams and start a restaurant‚ I need to know what food restaurant
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resources‚ including loss or harm to populations of wild species. Discuss one management practice for sustainability and conservation of natural resources in that ecosystem. Identify the risks and benefits of extracting or using one type of nonrenewable and one type of renewable energy resource from that ecosystem‚ or in areas near that ecosystem. Assess management practices for sustainability and conservation of natural resources and energy. Include two outside references. Format your paper
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campuses sustainable and more environmental friendly. Well according to the latest news and internet readings concerning our environment‚ sustainability has become a national priority. Sustainability involves meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education). The Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF)‚ which includes over 400 universities‚ released
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analyse the importance of business sustainability In this essay I am going to discuss and analyse the importance of business sustainability. Business sustainability is often defined as managing the triple bottom line - a process by which companies manage their financial‚ social and environmental risks‚ obligations and opportunities. (http://lexicon.ft.com/Term?term=business-sustainability) There are a number of best practices that foster business sustainability‚ and help organisations move along
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Table of content: Definition of environment sustainability Now days‚ Environment becomes more and more deterioration，So We need a good way to solve this important question. As we all know‚ Healthy ecosystems provide vital goods and services to humans and other organisms. A lot of things can be sustainable. “Environmental sustainability is a economic growth focus on long-term development model”(IUCN‚ 1980) and environment sustainability of course means to use sustainable energy and to products
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