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A 7 page paper consisting of speaker notes for a 12-slide PowerPoint® presentation that is also available. Published in 2005, the qualitative study surveys members of the Boards of 18 companies included on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and identifies an appropriate Board approach to establishing and maintaining sustainability, one that can be used by other companies confronted with the issue of sustainability and the need to take a formal stance on it. The matrix that the authors create is one that can be seen as being quite adaptable for many different types of organizations in widely disparate industries. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: CC6_KSbusResRevSD.rtf
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Note: PowerPoint(r) will arrive separately Introduction and Background Sustainability is not a new concept, but neither is it one that has
yet come into general use. It is not a leading topic among most leading organizations, though it can be expected to increase in use and recognition in coming years.
Increasing numbers of organizations are issuing sustainability reports separate from their financial reports but given equal weight among the best. Sustainability is not corporate social responsibility, but the
two can be viewed as opposite sides of the same coin. Corporate responsibility requires that the organization acknowledge its role in the community,
the local economy and the national economy of the country in which the organization operates. Sustainability refers to whether the operation is sustainable over time.
"Over time" can be nebulous and can be used by less scrupulous companies to refer to months or one or two years, but sustainability in the higher-plane
definition refers to whether there is the possibility that workers children and grandchildren will be able to carry on the same types of operations. The definition of sustainability in
this sense assumes no technological advances or economic changes in the specific area being evaluated. The manufacturing of laundry starch can be used as an example. Once a
product found in every household and used with regularity, starch is a rarity in todays households. The market for it disappeared in response to cultural shifts and external technological
change, not because there was any great problem in sustaining the manufacture of it. The telling factor in assessing sustainability is whether something can be continued for generations based
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