دانلود کتاب Sustainable Practices in Italian Businesses: Environmental, Social and Economic Aspects

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Contents
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Chapter 1: Sustainability Background and Literature
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Defining Sustainability
1.3 Pillars of Sustainability (Identifying the Dimensions of Sustainability)
1.4 The Different Structures of the Dimensions of Sustainability
1.5 Sustainability Initiatives and Indexes
1.5.1 A Short Historical Overview of the Sustainability Initiatives
1.5.1.1 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Initiatives
1.5.1.2 The World Bank, Monitoring Environmental Progress
1.5.1.3 UN Department of Policy Co-ordination and Sustainable Development
1.5.1.4 European Environment Agency
1.5.1.5 European Common Indicators
1.5.2 The Current State of Art
1.5.2.1 General Level Initiatives
EUROSTAT Sustainable Initiatives
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
National Government Sustainability Guidelines and Initiatives
More on Sustainability Initiatives: An Italian Perspective
1.5.2.2 Business Level Initiatives
OECD Measuring the Non-financial Performance of Firms through the Lens of the OECD Well-being Framework
Standards for Disaster Risk Reduction (ISO 14000, ISO 26000)
United Nation Global Compact, UNGC
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG)
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Developing a Synthetic Index of Business Sustainability
2.1 Methodology for Composite Indicator
2.1.1 How Some of the Steps of Constructing CI Have Been Faced in the Research Context
2.2 A New Indicator for Measuring Businesses’ Sustainability
2.2.1 Theoretical Framework and Variables Selection
2.2.1.1 Business Sustainability and the SDGs
2.2.1.2 A New Classification of Sustainability: Connection between GRI-ESG-ISTAT variables
2.2.2 Data Treatment, Normalization, Transformation and Aggregation
2.2.2.1 Data Treatment and Preliminary Statistics
2.2.2.2 Correlation Analysis
2.2.2.3 Correlation Between Selected Indicator Variables
2.2.2.4 Transformation, Weighting, and Aggregation
2.2.2.5 How We Compute the ABR INDEX
2.2.2.6 Validating a Synthetic Indicator
2.3 Methodology for Analyzing Sustainability and Profitability and Productivity
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Application of the Sustainable Index: A Feature of Sustainability in Italian Businesses
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Data and Source of Data for Our Analysis
3.3 Sustainability Actions in the Italian Businesses
3.4 The Sustainability ABR Index
3.4.1 Social Dimension- Internal, External, Safety and Security
3.4.2 Size and Sector of Business
3.5 Italian Businesses’ Contribution to the SDGs
3.5.1 An Elaboration of ISTAT Data Variables under the SDG Mapping
3.6 Comparing Indexes, Importance of the ABR INDEX
3.7 A Relationship Between Sustainability Level and Level of Profitability and Productivity
3.8 Synthesis of the Results
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Appendix
Index