This edited volume brings together contributions from multiple experts in academia to explore the practical implications of the Net Zero Economy for corporate social responsibility and sustainable value creation in today's world. As the world approaches net-zero emissions by 2050, it is crucial for businesses to take corporate social responsibility seriously and make credible attempts to achieve sustainable value creation while reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. The book provides a comprehensive guide to navigating the complexities of corporate responsibility in the net-zero economy, drawing on the expertise of scholars in sustainable supply chain, environmental sciences, management, sustainable business management, and social sciences. With contributions from multiple experts, it examines the challenges that businesses face in reducing their climate impact and highlights the green growth opportunities that they can take advantage of in the net-zero transition. This edited volume is an essential read for students, research scholars, and industrial professionals working in sustainable development, eco-friendly business management, and corporate social responsibility.
Experts in Medicine are under new pressures of advancing their studies while also reducing the impact they leave on the environment. Researchers within the fields of bio-neuro informatics, healthcare, engineering, and medical sciences require a dynamic platform that bridges the realms of academia, science, industry, and innovation. Green AI-Powered Intelligent Systems for Disease Prognosis facilitates a crossroads for a diverse audience interested in these two seldom coalesced concepts. Academicians, scientists, researchers, professionals, decision-makers, and even aspiring scholars all find a space to contribute, collaborate, and learn within the platform that this book provides. The book's thematic coverage is unequivocally compelling; by exploring the intersections of bio-neuro informatics, healthcare, engineering, and medical sciences, it captures the spirit of interdisciplinary research. It delves into well-established domains while also casting a spotlight on emerging trends that have the potential to reshape our understanding of these fields. Two prominent tracks form the backbone of the book's content. The first covers the Bioinformatics and Data Mining of Biological Data (BiDMBD), and unravels the intricacies of biomedical computation, signal analysis, clinical decision support, and health data mining. This approach holds a treasure trove of insights into the mechanisms of health data acquisition, clinical informatics, and the representation of healthcare knowledge. The second covers Biomedical Informatics and is a symposium of computational modeling, genomics, and proteomics. Here, the fusion of data science with medical sciences takes center stage.
Across the globe, communities face increasing challenges in building resilience and sustainability in the face of climate change, economic disparities, and other complex issues. The tourism sector, often seen as a driver of economic growth, has also been a source of environmental degradation, cultural erosion, and social inequities in many destinations. There is a growing need for a new approach to sustainable tourism development that enhances community well-being and environmental stewardship. Building Community Resiliency and Sustainability With Tourism Development provides a comprehensive framework for transforming the tourism sector into a force for positive change. The book explores the relationship between tourism, community development, and environmental conservation. It offers practical solutions to promote resilience and sustainability in tourism-dependent communities. Through case studies, best practices, and innovative strategies, readers can learn how to leverage tourism to promote economic, social, and environmental benefits.
A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Named one of 10 Best New Management Books for 2022 by Thinkers50 "An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done" — The Economist "Polman's new book with the sustainable business expert Andrew Winston…argues that it's profitable to do business with the goal of making the world better." — The New York Times Named as recommended reading by Fortune's CEO Daily "…Polman has been one of the most significant chief executives of his era and that his approach to business and its role in society has been both valuable and path-breaking." — Financial Times The ex-Unilever CEO who increased his shareholders' returns by 300% while ensuring the company ranked #1 in the world for sustainability for eleven years running has, for the first time, revealed how to do it. Teaming up with Andrew Winston, one of the world's most authoritative voices on corporate sustainability, Paul Polman shows business leaders how to take on humanity's greatest and most urgent challenges—climate change and inequality—and build a thriving business as a result. In this candid and straight-talking handbook, Polman and Winston reveal the secrets of Unilever's success and pull back the curtain on some of the world's most powerful c-suites. Net Positive boldly argues that the companies of the future will profit by fixing the world's problems, not creating them. Together the authors explode our most prevalent corporate myths: from the idea that business' only function is to maximise profits, to the naïve hope that Corporate Social Responsibility will save our species from disaster. These approaches, they argue, are destined for the graveyard. Instead, they show corporate leaders how to make their companies "Net Positive"—thriving by giving back more to the world than they take. Net Positive companies unleash innovation, build trust, attract the best people, thrill customers, and secure lasting success, all by helping create stronger, more inclusive societies and a healthier planet. Heal the world first, they argue, and you’ll satisfy your investors as a result. With ambitious vision and compelling stories, Net Positive will teach you how to find the inner purpose and courage you need to embrace the only business model that will matter in the years ahead. You will learn how to lead others and unlock your company's soul, while setting and delivering big and aggressive goals, and taking responsibility for all of your company's impacts. You'll find out the secrets to partnering with others, including your competition and critics, to drive transformative change from which you will prosper. You'll build a company that serves your people, your customers, your communities, your shareholders—and your children and grandchildren will thank you for it. Is this win-win for business and humanity too good to be true? Don't believe it. The world's smartest CEOs are already taking their companies on the Net Positive journey and benefitting as a result. Will you be left behind? Join the movement at netpositive.world
The nexus between globalization and digitalization presents unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, there is a pressing need to understand how these forces interact to shape our economies, societies, and environment. However, existing knowledge gaps hinder our ability to harness their full potential for sustainable development. Developing Digital Inclusion Through Globalization and Digitalization addresses this critical issue by comprehensively analyzing the relationship between globalization and digitalization. This book serves as a roadmap for policymakers, industry leaders, academics, and international organizations seeking to navigate the complexities of the digital age and leverage globalization and digitalization for sustainable development.
Artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the entrepreneurial landscape by offering tools and insights to encourage innovation, transform ideas, and impact business owners mindsets. With AI's ability to analyze vast amounts of data, predict trends, and automate complex processes, entrepreneurs are now equipped to make more informed decisions, streamline operations, and discover new market opportunities. However, to fully harness AI's potential, there must be a concerted effort to democratize access to these technologies and provide the necessary skills and resources to aspiring founders. By fostering a culture of learning and experimentation, entrepreneurs may become empowered to explore the vast possibilities of AI within business management processes. It has become necessary to cultivate AI literacy and accessibility, for improved inclusivity and innovation in entrepreneurship practices. Empowering Entrepreneurial Mindsets With AI explores the possibilities of artificial intelligence within entrepreneurial methods. Applications of AI in business are positively outlined, with an emphasis on industry professional empowerment and technology development. This book covers topics such as mental health and wellbeing, cybersecurity, and digital technology, and is a useful resource for therapists, agriculturists, security professionals, healthcare workers, computer engineers, business owners, academicians, researchers, and scientists.
This book provides a clear, critical, and timely analysis of the state of corporate sustainability within the context of the climate crisis. It offers not only a substantive critique of the current efforts but also clarity about the changes needed and how to implement them. The book goes beyond the more common debate on shareholder capitalism vs. stakeholder capitalism to explain the shortcomings of the current approach to sustainability in business, which the author describes as sustainability-as-usual. Using strategic design lenses, the author proposes a new model of awakened sustainability, which offers a transformational shift in corporate sustainability to ensure companies fairly and effectively address the climate crisis. The book presents the numerous changes needed in the environment in which companies operate to enable awakened sustainability and how these changes can be realized. Grounded in the scientific community’s calls for urgent action on climate change, this groundbreaking text provides scholars with an evaluation of current and future trends in corporate sustainability. It connects the dots between the progress made in the last five decades and the opportunities entailed in the work on a regenerative and just vision for companies in this decade and beyond.
The goal of this book is to define Sustainable Value Creation in terms of a set of principles that differentiate it from existing definitions of CSR, and from related concepts such as sustainability and business ethics. To internalize these ten principles is to understand how the firm can respond to stakeholder needs to optimize value creation over the medium to long term. Ultimately, this second edition book aims to reform both business practice and business education. By building a theory that redefines CSR as central to the value creation process, the ten principles of Sustainable Value Creation redefine how firms approach each of their operational functions, but also how these subjects should be taught in universities worldwide. As such, this book will hopefully be of value to instructors as a complement to their teaching, students as a guide in their education, and managers as a framework to help them respond to the complex, dynamic context that they are expected to navigate every day. This book is a manifesto for success in today’s complex, dynamic business environment. The book is designed as an easy-to-digest, critical introductory text to CSR. With supporting online teaching resources, it is aimed primarily at the MBA and Executive MBA market, and for CSR, sustainability, and business ethics courses taught by instructors skeptical of existing definitions and organizing principles of CSR, sustainability, or business ethics.
