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Sustainability Management: Concepts, Instruments, and Stakeholders, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (June 30, 2025) © 2025

  • Rüdiger Hahn

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Support your students to explore the essential issues in sustainable management and responsible business development.

This text provides the most comprehensive introduction to sustainability management topics and challenges for today's students. Chapters address key concepts and definitions in sustainable development, the perspectives of stakeholders including employees, consumers, and investors, as well as sustainability tools and strategies applied across management functions.

Essential topic coverage for today's business and management students:

  • Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of key sustainability topics.
  • Concise and engaging chapters explore the history, concepts and definitions of sustainable development, the perspectives of different stakeholders including employees, consumers, and investors, as well as sustainability tools and strategies across management functions (including marketing, HRM, supply chain management, and finance).

Flexible learning features and global examples support your teaching:

  • Faces of sustainability introduce diverse thought leaders from across society.
  • Sustainability in business illustrates real-world examples of sustainable and unsustainable business practice globally.
  • Sustainability in society spotlights practical challenges, ideas, and concepts in the wider societal context.
  • Sustainability in research provides an overview of seminal research articles to deepen understanding.

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Table of contents

Part A. Introduction to sustainable development and sustainability management.

  1. History and status quo of sustainable development
  2. Concepts of sustainability and sustainable development
  3. Reasons for sustainable development and sustainability management
  4. Decoupling development from impact
  5. Sustainable business models and alternative forms of organizations

Part B. Stakeholder perspectives on sustainability management

  1. Stakeholder management
  2. Consumers
  3. Governmental actors
  4. Civil Society
  5. Investors and sustainable finance
  6. Employees

Part C. Functional perspectives of sustainability management

  1. Sustainable human resource management
  2. Sustainable information technology and digitalization
  3. Sustainable supply chain management
  4. Sustainable production and logistics
  5. Sustainability marketing
  6. Sustainable innovation management
  7. Sustainability accounting
  8. Sustainability management control
  9. Sustainability reporting

Author bios

Professor Rüdiger Hahn holds the Henkel-Endowed Chair of Sustainability Management at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany. Professor Hahn has a wealth of experience teaching sustainability management and corporate social responsibility for over twenty years and is a highly recognized scholar in the field.

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