Sustainability has become a topic of global relevance: Corporations and other economically
acting organizations increasingly need to realize economic environmental and social objectives
in order to survive. Supplementary to classical environmental management realizing corporate
sustainability requires comprehensive approaches which allow the integration of social and
economic aspects. Such concepts can be found e.g. in international excellence models mainly
based on a TQM thinking but also in the field of human factors in organizational design and
management. Understood as systems approaches they include the interests of all relevant
stakeholders with a mid- or long-term time perspective and are thus highly linked with the
principles of sustainable development. In this book internationally leading scientists discuss
the issue of sustainability from their perspective resulting in an innovative view on
different management approaches under the umbrella of corporate sustainability.
