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Sustainability Management in Agribusiness: Challenges, Concepts, Responsibilities and Performance

International Journal on Food System Dynamics

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Title Sustainability Management in Agribusiness: Challenges, Concepts, Responsibilities and Performance
 
Creator Friedrich, Nina
Heyder, Matthias
Theuvsen, Ludwig
 
Subject Corporate social responsibility; external stakeholders; performance; sustainability
 
Description The idea of sustainable management has recently gained growing attention in the agribusiness sector. This is mainly due to a widespread discontent with the industrialization of agricultural production and food processing and growing public pressure on agribusiness firms to implement more sustainable management practices. In this paper we present the results of an explorative empirical study of sustainability management in German agribusiness firms. The study shows that agribusiness firms have developed a broad understanding of sustainability management and perceive a multi-facetted spectrum of societal demands they have to meet. The most important arguments for implementing more sustainable management practices are that companies have to make sure that they are trusted by society in the long run and that the perception of a company by external stakeholders has become more and more important. The companies surveyed know quite a number of sustainability programmes and standards, but the number of companies that actually participate in these initiatives is much smaller. Nonetheless, the majority of the respondents feels that their company is more successful with regard to sustainability management than industry average.
 
Publisher CentMA
 
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Date 2012-12-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://centmapress.ilb.uni-bonn.de/ojs/index.php/fsd/article/view/323
10.18461/ijfsd.v3i2.323
 
Source International Journal on Food System Dynamics; Vol 3, No 2 (2012); 123 - 135
1869-6945
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://centmapress.ilb.uni-bonn.de/ojs/index.php/fsd/article/view/323/257