On 15 April Professor David Grayson CBE, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility, and Dr Rosina Watson, Senior Lecturer in Sustainability, Cranfield School of Management presented a webinar on “Sustainability in business” as part of the Alumni webinar series: Ideas, insight and innovation.

If you couldn’t make it to the event, or you’re interested in learning more about sustainability in the context of business decisions and corporate responsibility, there are several resources in your free Alumni Library Online (ALO) service to keep you informed.

Here are just a few examples of the sort of recent articles you can read in some of the ALO databases:

In ABI-Inform

A Step-by-Step Process towards an Evolutionary Policy Encouraging the Adoption of Sustainable Business Models. (2021). Sustainability, 13(3), 1176.

Montiel, I., Gallo, P. J., & Antolin-Lopez, R. (2020). What on Earth Should Managers Learn About Corporate Sustainability? A Threshold Concept Approach: JBE. Journal of Business Ethics, 162(4), 857-880.

Sustainability Is All about Values: The Challenges of Considering Moral and Benefit Values in Business Model Decisions. (2021). Sustainability, 13(2), 664.

Thriving, Not Just Surviving in Changing Times: How Sustainability, Agility and Digitalization Intertwine with Organizational Resilience. (2021). Sustainability, 13(4), 2052.

In Emerald Journals

Davies, I., Oates, C.J., Tynan, C., Carrigan, M., Casey, K., Heath, T., Henninger, C.E., Lichrou, M., McDonagh, P., McDonald, S., McKechnie, S., McLeay, F., O'Malley, L. and Wells, V. (2020), Seeking sustainable futures in marketing and consumer research. European Journal of Marketing, 54(11), 2911-2939.

Fiorentino, R., Grimaldi, F., Lamboglia, R. and Merendino, A. (2020), How smart technologies can support sustainable business models: insights from an air navigation service provider. Management Decision, 58(8), 1715-1736.

Claro, P.B.d.O. and Esteves, N.R. (2021), Sustainability-oriented strategy and Sustainable Development Goals. Marketing Intelligence & Planning, Ahead-of-print.

Biloslavo, R., Bagnoli, C., Massaro, M. and Cosentino, A. (2020), Business model transformation toward sustainability: the impact of legitimation. Management Decision, 58(8), 1643-1662.

Talib, F., K Josaiman, S. and Faisal, M.N. (2020), An integrated AHP and ISO14000, ISO26000 based approach for improving sustainability in supply chains. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Ahead-of-print.

In Sage Journals

Bouloiz, H. (2020). Sustainable performance management using resilience engineering. International Journal of Engineering Business Management, 12.

Pedersen, E. R. G., Lüdeke-Freund, F., Henriques, I., & Seitanidi, M. M. (2020). Toward Collaborative Cross-Sector Business Models for Sustainability. Business & Society, Ahead-of-print.

Good, J., & Thorpe, A. (2020). The Nature of Organizing: A Relational Approach to Understanding Business Sustainability. Organization & Environment, 33(3), 359–383.

Wasieleski, D., Waddock, S., Fort, T., & Guimarães-Costa, N. (2021). Natural Sciences, Management Theory, and System Transformation for Sustainability. Business & Society, 60(1), 7–25.

Open Access articles in ScienceDirect from Elsevier
Although Elsevier do not generally permit alumni access to ScienceDirect material, don’t forget there are many articles available via open access (the author has paid to allow their article to be publicly available without subscription).

Here are some examples of open access articles in this subject area with direct links to the full text:

Brian Baldassarre, Duygu Keskin, Jan Carel Diehl, Nancy Bocken, Giulia Calabretta (2020), . Journal of Cleaner Production, 273, 123113.

Steven Kane Curtis, Oksana Mont (2020), . Journal of Cleaner Production, 266, 121519.

Mokter Hossain, (2021), Technology in Society, 64, 101508.

Want to hear more from the speakers?

Take a look at CERES, Cranfield’s university repository, to access their other publications:

Not sure how to find us? Follow these simple steps to the Alumni Library Online service:

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  • Click on Databases to find the databases listed above.

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