The Age of Institutional Pressures: Adaptive Role of Sustainability Management

Synthèse

In recent years, sustainability has moved from the periphery to the core of managerial agendas. Organizations now operate in a context where institutional pressures are reshaping the foundations of management practice. Examples such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) illustrate how sustainability demands extend beyond compliance and disclosure obligations, creating new challenges and opportunities for strategy, governance, and decision-making. These institutional pressures influence corporate context in many ways, such as by requiring transparency, accountability, sustainability-focused investments, corporate governance structures, data collection, reporting systems, and strategic decision-making to align with sustainability principles as addressed in relevant regulations. This regulatory transformation represents a critical contextual change in how sustainability is managed and measured within organizations.

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Thèmes proposés

  • The role of institutional, cultural, and stakeholder pressures in shaping sustainability strategies
  • Governance structures, management control systems, and incentive mechanisms that support sustainability integration
  • The evolution of sustainability management from compliance-driven to strategy-driven approaches
  • Digital technologies, data analytics, and ESG reporting systems as enablers of sustainability-oriented decisions
  • Interactions between financial and non-financial performance objectives in decision-making
  • Organizational tensions between short-term performance imperatives and long-term sustainability goals