Dissertation
The Influence of Chief Sustainability Officers on Environmental and Financial Performance, and the Moderating Effect of Regulatory Pressure
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/00833
Abstract
The future depends on resources and how we manage them under various pressures inside and outside of the organisations or businesses in which we operate. With companies forced to deal with recent unprecedented events such as pandemics and other natural cataclysms while trying to adopt to rapidly changing markets and technologies, it is no longer enough to focus only on the economic side of the business. A robust business strategy will be dependent on how well a company balances financial, environmental, and social aspects and positions itself in terms of sustainable development (Alshehhi et al., 2018).
As sustainability can have different definitions depending on the context, the base definition used in this thesis is “meeting our needs today without compromising future generations’ ability to meet theirs” (Brundtland, 1987, p. 41). Corporate sustainability is, therefore, according to Elkington (1997 // 2002) how to expand the financial bottom line into a triple bottom line, which includes environmental and social aspects of corporate performance. In this thesis, the focus will be based on environmental aspects of sustainability to allow for delimitation of definitions and to aim for more clarity and measurability of variables.
This thesis reviewed how upper echelon theory (UET), as based on resource based theory (RBV), in combination with new institutional theory (InT), explains the role of Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) (also against the background of other management structures such as a sustainability committee (SC) and as moderated by governmental regulations) and how they influence the “greening” of companies and their relationship with Environmental and Financial Performance (EP and FP) in European manufacturing companies.
Details
- Title
- The Influence of Chief Sustainability Officers on Environmental and Financial Performance, and the Moderating Effect of Regulatory Pressure
- Authors
- Anita Panov - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Contributors
- Jenna Campton (Principal Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Awarding institution
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Degree awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- DOI
- 10.25907/00833
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991013098902621
- Output Type
- Dissertation
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