LibGuides: Sustainability: Business

Books

To locate books on sustainability in business, try using some of these subject terms:

social responsibility of business
sustainable development
environmental economics
environmental aspects and business
environmental aspects and management

Adapting to Change : an inside view of corporate resilience to climate by Ann Goodman
Call Number: Stacks HD30.255 .G66 2016
ISBN: 9781631571442
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Building a Culture for Sustainability: people, planet, and profits in a new green economy by Ph.D., Jeana Wirtenberg
Call Number: Stacks HC79.E5 W5655 2014
ISBN: 9781440803765
Publication Date: 2014-01-27
The Sustainable MBA : the manager’s guide to green business by Giselle Weybrecht
Call Number: eBook
The Triple Bottom Line : how today’s best-run companies are achieving economic, social, and environmental success--and how you can too by Andrew W. Savitz, with Karl Weber
Call Number: eBook

Databases

ABI/Inform Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains full text scholarly journal articles as well as trade journals and industry newsletters, regional business news, magazines, and newspaper articles published worldwide (“Wall Street Journal” 1984-today).
Business Insights: Essentials This link opens in a new window
Includes company profiles, industry reports and financial reports, as well as business magazines and newspapers.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Business Source Complete provides full text from more than 1,600 scholarly business journals, and includes full text articles from newspapers, magazines, and trade publications. Additional full-text non-journal content includes SWOT analyses, country-specific industry reports, case studies, market research reports,country reports, and more.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
Journal articles, books, and dissertations on economics (1969 - present).
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Journals in the fields of science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences from Elsevier Science and other publishers.

Journals

Websites

The following list contains a wide range of open access resources on corporate social resonsibility, sustainable development, and fair trade:

BSR (Business for Social Responsibility): The Business of a Better World
“BSR’s role is to catalyze change within business by integrating sustainability into strategy and operations, and to promote collaboration among companies and their stakeholders for systemic progress toward a just and sustainable world.”
Ceres
Ceres is a non-profit advocacy group for sustainability in leadership. Their mission is "to mobilize investor and business leadership to build a thriving, sustainable global economy."
CorpWatch: Holding Corporations Accountable
"CorpWatch promotes human, environmental, social and worker rights by making corporate practices more transparent and holding corporations accountable for their actions."
Create, Grow, Sustain: 2013
This report from the Business Roundtable describes how 147 leading U.S. companies "are doing well by doing good."
Fair Trade Federation
The Fair Trade Federation "is part of the global fair trade movement, building equitable and sustainable trading partnerships and creating opportunities to alleviate poverty." The site include global policy papers and numerous case studies.
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
"The International Institute for Sustainable Development is a Canadian-based, international public policy research institute for sustainable development."
SBI: Sustainable Business Institute
"SBI is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to bringing about increased understanding of, and commitment to, the concept of sustainability within business and communities worldwide."
WBCSD: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
The WBCSD is a CEO-led organization of forward-thinking companies that generates sustainable solutions for the global business community, society, and the environment.

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