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Book SynopsisThe search for ways of doing business that are the best for the world is the issue of our time. Add-on CSR is a last-Generation logic that has no value for the now-Generation let alone the next-Generation. This book is a clarion call to the kind of action that both matters and is the landscape of business success in our time.'
- Mark Drewell, CEO, The Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative and co-author of
Management Education for the World'Latin America has received too little world attention for the contributions its companies and governments are making for creating a sustainable world. This wonderful book will correct this problem. The book also makes a major conceptual contribution through its platform idea of the sustainability frontier.'
- Robert G. Eccles, Harvard Business School, co-author of One Report, and Founding Chairman, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
'Corporations in Latin America are facing, more than ever, the demands to put civil society and the natural environment into their business models. This book provides solid frameworks and plenty of real-world examples to help them deal with the challenge.'
- Alfredo Enrione, The PwC Endowed Chair of Corporate Governance at ESE Business School, Universidad de los Andes, Chile
'In the shadow of the Asian economic miracle, the social change in and economic growth of Latin America have often been overlooked, or even ignored. This book takes the Latin American perspective and provides us with deep and rich insights on how sustainability can be integrated into business strategy.'
- Günter Müller-Stewens, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
'This book is very timely, since corporations require a deeper understanding and new approaches to the challenges and opportunities posed by the concept of sustainability.'
- Roberto L. Artavia, Chairman, INCAE Business School and Chairman of Viva Trust
Using a combination of thorough research and practical examples, Strategy and Competitiveness in Latin American Markets explains how the concept of the sustainability frontier that the book develops resolves the long-running debate on whether sustainability requires trade-offs or not.
Through its exploration of a variety of sustainability challenges and opportunities, along with various sustainability models, the authors show how the sustainability frontier can be expanded through disruptive innovation, the building of new skills and by other means to secure 'no trade-off' solutions.
Experts in the field of sustainability in Latin America, researchers in the field of management, students of business administration and managers of companies operating in emerging countries will all find this book to be both useful and engaging.
Contributors: F. Angele, E.R. Brenes, A.R. Camacho, F.C. Cañeque, L. Ciravegna, S.L. Hart, J. Ickis, U. Jäger, M. Kramer, C. Laszlo, M. Löffler, A.M. Majano, C. Martinez, F. Pérez-Pineda, A.M. Prado, V. Sathe, D. Smith, R.P. Sroufe, Jr., M. Tuil, V. Umaña, P. Veling, K.L. Whittingham, D.R. Young
Trade Review‘The search for ways of doing business that are the best for the world is the issue of our time. Add-on CSR is a last-Generation logic that has no value for the now-Generation let alone the next-Generation. This book is a clarion call to the kind of action that both matters and is the landscape of business success in our time.’
‘In the shadow of the Asian economic miracle, the social change in and economic growth of Latin America have often been overlooked, or even ignored. This book takes the Latin American perspective and provides us with deep and rich insights on how sustainability can be integrated into business strategy.’ -- Günter Müller-Stewens, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
‘This book is very timely, since corporations require a deeper understanding and new approaches to the challenges and opportunities posed by the concept of sustainability.’ -- Roberto L. Artavia, Chairman, INCAE Business School and Chairman of Viva Trust
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‘The book provides clear-cut concepts, deals with tough questions, and never offers simplistic answers.’
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Stuart L. Hart Foreword Stephan Schmidheiny PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Sustainability for Strategy Vijay Sathe and Urs Jäger 2. The Sustainability Frontier Dennis R. Young 3. Sustainability in Latin America Fernando Casado Cañeque PART II: SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES INTRODUCTION TO PART II 4. Natural Resources Ana María Majano and Felipe Pérez-Pineda 5. Base of the Pyramid Fernando Casado Cañeque 6. Informal Economy Keith L. Whittingham 7. Financial Markets Arnoldo R. Camacho 8. Strategy Development Esteban R. Brenes 9. Governance and Structure John Ickis and Andrea M. Prado Conclusion To Part II: The Challenges and Opportunities for Achieving Viability, Legitimacy and Competitiveness Urs Jäger and Vijay Sathe PART III: SUSTAINABILITY MODELS INTRODUCTION TO PART III 10. No Trade-Off Chris Laszlo 11. Shared Value Dane Smith and Mark Kramer 12. Shared Value Clusters Luciano Ciravegna 13. Sustainable Supply Chains Robert P. Sroufe, Jr. 14. Social Business Martin Löffler Conclusion to Part III: Sustainability Models for Achieving Viability, Legitimacy and Competitiveness Vijay Sathe and Urs Jäger Conclusion: How Latin American Companies can Improve their Triple Bottom Line Performance Vijay Sathe and Urs Jäger Appendix 1: Illustrative Cases Florine Angele, Urs Jäger, Michaël Tuil, Vladimir Umaña and Pepijn Veling Appendix 2: An Analysis of the Triple Bottom Line Performance of 21 Latin American Countries from 1990-2010 Felipe Pérez-Pineda and Carlos Martinez Bibliography Index
