The Clinic has officially published its new paper, Corporate Social Sustainability: Strategies, Opportunities, and Challenges, by Jungwoo Chun, Laura Frye-Levine, and Iselle Barrios in Cleaner and Responsible Consumption.
This paper explores how multinational corporations define and implement corporate social sustainability (CSS) through interviews with sustainability professionals across multiple industries. The research examines how CSS extends beyond compliance into broader strategies involving workforce development, stakeholder engagement, community investment, environmental justice, and long-term organizational change.
Some key findings:
Corporate social sustainability is increasingly integrated across multiple business functions and organizational levels
Many companies are shifting toward “beyond compliance” approaches that embed social sustainability into core business strategy
Sustainability professionals identified workforce, community, environment, industry, and systemic change as major dimensions of CSS
Companies continue to face challenges in measuring and operationalizing social sustainability goals
Stronger integration of environmental and social objectives can support more effective long-term sustainability planning
Community investment and mutual capacity-building are becoming increasingly important components of corporate sustainability efforts
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