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Business for Sustainability, Volume I

Strategic Avenues and Managerial Approaches

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Editors:
  1. Demetris Vrontis

    1. Department of Management, School of Business, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

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  2. Alkis Thrassou

    1. GNOSIS Mediterranean Institute for Management Science, School of Business, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

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  3. Leonidas Efthymiou

    1. Department of Management, School of Business, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

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  4. Yaakov Weber

    1. School of Business Administration, Research Unit, College of Management, Rishon LeZion, Israel

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  5. S. M. Riad Shams

    1. Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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  6. Evangelos Tsoukatos

    1. Nicosia, Cyprus

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  • Contributes to SDGs 8, 9, 12, 13 and 17
  • Offers balanced perspectives across business disciplines regions, markets and industries, and applications
  • Covers hot topics such as AI, big data, supply chains and consumer behaviour

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About this book

Part of a two-volume work, this book explores how businesses shape, and are shaped by, sustainability forces and phenomena. These evolutionary transformations have driven scholars, practitioners and decision makers to pay increased attention to sustainability as an integral part of business development. Consequently, and congruently, companies, organisations and governments are modifying their philosophy, processes, activities, and communications, at both the micro- and macro-foundational levels, to comply and adapt to the new realities.

Reflecting the purpose of the series, both volumes offer a cross-section of multi-disciplinary perspectives within business studies. Volume 1 focuses on strategic and managerial approaches to sustainability in business, including accounts on the historic origins of sustainability and its contemporary corporate sustainable models. Volume 2 explores, more contextually, how business and social sustainability constitute indivisible and inextricable components of the same nexus. Taken together, they offer an original perspective on how businesses can help achieve the SDG goals and targets.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. An Overview of Business for Sustainability: Strategic Avenues and Managerial Approaches

    • Demetris Vrontis, Alkis Thrassou, Naziyet Uzunboylu, Leonidas Efthymiou
    Pages 1-19

  3. Exploring Consumer Boycott Intention towards Corporate Sustainable Business Practices

    • Caroline S. L. Tan, Ioanna Papasolomou
    Pages 21-42

  4. Sustainability of Youth Development in Drylands: A Systematic Approach

    • Aleksandra Figurek, Elena I. Semenova, Alkis Thrassou
    Pages 43-67

  5. Investigating the Supply Chain Performance of Agribusiness Firms from the IT Capability and Government Support Perspectives

    • Ranjan Chaudhuri, Sheshadri Chatterjee, Demetris Vrontis
    Pages 69-92

  6. Sustainable Partnership Responses to Prevent Homelessness from Hospital Discharges and Prison Releases: The Case of Leeds City Council in the UK

    • Kate Daly, Niki Kyriakidou
    Pages 93-115

  7. Green Economy and Credit Quality in the European Banking Industry: What are the Opportunities for Sustainability?

    • Elena Bruno, Giuseppina Iacoviello, Mavillonio Maria Saveria
    Pages 117-140

  8. Corporate Environmental Performance and Bond Ratings: European Evidence

    • Panagiotis E. Dimitropoulos, Konstantinos Koronios
    Pages 141-158

  9. Are Football Societies Aware of the Relevance of Diversity in Good Governance? The Case of “Pink Quota”

    • Nicola Davola, Francesca Vicentini
    Pages 159-177

  10. How Do Companies Conceive Sustainable Infrastructure? Evidence from Construction Companies’ Reports’ Content Analysis

    • Silvia Gordano, Daniel Torchia, Laura Corazza, Dario Cottafava
    Pages 179-200

  11. Weak Sustainable Development Trajectories and Evolving Organisational Physiologies: Empirical Evidence from Greece

    • Dimos Chatzinikolaou, Charis Vlados
    Pages 201-226

  12. Sustainability for Healthcare Organisations and Systems: Cultivating Strategy and Governance Processes for a Better Future

    • Lior Naamati-Schneider, Fiorella Pia Salvatore
    Pages 227-248

  13. Cause-Related Marketing and Philanthropy at Times of Crisis and Increasing Digitisation

    • Marlen Demetriou, Leonidas Efthymiou, Avros Morphitis
    Pages 249-272

  14. Correction to: Weak Sustainable Development Trajectories and Evolving Organisational Physiologies: Empirical Evidence from Greece

    • Dimos Chatzinikolaou, Charis Vlados
    Pages C1-C1

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 273-277
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Management, School of Business, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Demetris Vrontis, Leonidas Efthymiou

  • GNOSIS Mediterranean Institute for Management Science, School of Business, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Alkis Thrassou

  • School of Business Administration, Research Unit, College of Management, Rishon LeZion, Israel

    Yaakov Weber

  • Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    S. M. Riad Shams

  • Nicosia, Cyprus

    Evangelos Tsoukatos

About the editors

​Demetris Vrontis is Professor and Vice Rector for Faculty and Research at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, the Editor-in-Chief of the EuroMed Journal of Business, and President of the EuroMed Academy of Business.

Alkis Thrassou is Professor and Director of Gnosis Mediterranean Institute for Management Science at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.

Leonidas Efthymiou is Assistant Professor in the School of Business, at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.

Yaakov Weber is Professor and Director of the Research Unit, School of Business Administration, College of Management, Israel, and President of the EuroMed Academy of Business.

S. M. Riad Shams is Senior Lecturer at the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK, and the founding editor of the International Journal of Big Data Management.

Evangelos Tsoukatos teaches Management at the University of Applied Sciences,Greece, and is Associate Editor of the EuroMed Journal of Business (EMJB).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Business for Sustainability, Volume I

  • Book Subtitle: Strategic Avenues and Managerial Approaches

  • Editors: Demetris Vrontis, Alkis Thrassou, Leonidas Efthymiou, Yaakov Weber, S. M. Riad Shams, Evangelos Tsoukatos

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cross-disciplinary Business Research, In Association with EuroMed Academy of Business

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37361-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37360-2Published: 02 November 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37363-3Published: 18 March 2025

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37361-9Published: 01 November 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2523-8167

  • Series E-ISSN: 2523-8175

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 277

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Management, Corporate Environmental Management

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