Staircase To Sustainable Development

Doorasamy Mishelle ()
Additional contact information
Doorasamy Mishelle: Durban University of Technology, Department of Financial Accounting, Durban, South Africa

Foundations of Management, 2015, vol. 7, issue 1, 53-70

Abstract: The aim of this article to provide a theoretical framework on the concepts of Sustainable Development and the process that companies need to follow in order to ensure the future sustainability of business operations. Various secondary sources and previous literature was reviewed to clearly identify why companies are finding it difficult to conduct their business operations in a sustainable manner. Stricter legislation and regulations, increased competition, depletion of natural resources and market pressures have placed organisations under increased pressure to improve environmental performance and achieve eco-efficiency. This paper provides comprehensive overview of how companies can achieve the ‘Triple bottom line’ by committing to continuous improvement and adhering to the regulations stipulated according to the International Standards of Organisations (ISO14001).

Keywords: sustainable development; strict waste legislation; eco-efficiency; ISO14001; environmental performance; triple bottom line (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1515/fman-2015-0025 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:founma:v:7:y:2015:i:1:p:53-70:n:5

DOI: 10.1515/fman-2015-0025

Access Statistics for this article

Foundations of Management is currently edited by Tadeusz Krupa

More articles in Foundations of Management from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().