Beyond the Bounded Instrumentality in Current Corporate Sustainability Research: Toward an Inclusive Notion of Profitability

By Tobias Hahn, Frank Figge. 2011

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Subfields: Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Social Entrepreneurship as a Path for Social Change and Driver of Sustainable Development: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda (2019, unknown): “Hahn and Figge [69] To clarify the ambiguous notion of corporate sustainability Conceptual The paper shows that current approaches are rooted in a bounded notion of instrumentality which establishes a systematic predominance of economic organizational outcomes over environmental and social aspects C”
The Environmental, Social, Governance, and Financial Performance Effects on Companies that Adopt the United Nations Global Compact (2015, background): “Given the inherent instrumentality of sustainable development [32], it is often argued that companies will only contribute to sustainable development if they perceive an incentive to do so [33].”
Designing Sustainable HRM: The Core Characteristics of Emerging Field (2018, background): “Corporate sustainability places the emphasis on “broader concept of outcome”, addressing multiple bottom lines by including more outcomes than just ﬁnancial, and thus changes the understanding of business success [18].”
Reflexivity in Sustainability Accounting and Management: Transcending the Economic Focus of Corporate Sustainability (2014, background): “concept does not exist, there is a pragmatic consensus that corporate sustainability comprises economic, social, and environmental organizational outcomes (Florea et al. 2013; Hahn and Figge 2011).”
Ideas as coalition magnets: coalition building, policy entrepreneurs, and power relations (2016, background): “Thus, the polysemic character of sustainability encompasses things that contribute to the long-term profitability of the firm, as well as those that allow the firm to gain positive publicity for pursing environmental goals (Hahn and Figge 2011; Hahn et al. 2014).”
Is Green and Profitable Sustainable? Assessing the Trade-Off between Economic and Environmental Aspects (2013, background): “These limitations follow from the business cases’s inherent dominance of economic value creation over environmental concerns (Hahn and Figge, 2011).”
Tensions in Corporate Sustainability: Towards an Integrative Framework (2014, unknown): “More conceptually, Figge and Hahn (2008) and Hahn and Figge (2011) argue that the integration of economic, environmental and social dimensions into corporate sustainability as well as into sustainable performance measurements needs to be undertaken without an a priori predominance of any of these…”
Value Drivers of Corporate Eco-Efficiency: Management Accounting Information for the Efficient Use of Environmental Resources (2013, unknown): “Note that approaches that propose a business case for sustainability, including those that propose eco-efficiency strategies as win-win strategies (DeSimone and Popoff, 1998; Orsato, 2006; Porter and van der Linde, 1995), all fall into this category (Hahn and Figge, 2011).”
The Impact of Sustainability Practices on Corporate Financial Performance: Literature Trends and Future Research Potential (2018, background): “Sustainability is defined as meeting our needs today without compromising future generations’ ability to meet theirs [6].”