(In)Corporate Sustainability: A Systemic Shift towards Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2021) | Viewed by 26684
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable business law; corporate law; corporate governance; sustainability; circular economy; public procurement; sustainability in higher education
Interests: judicial review; EU law; administrative law; remedies; public procurement; environmental law
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
Given the global declarations of climate emergency and public calls for sustainability, timely solutions for existing policies and practices are needed. This Special Issue of Sustainability aims to gather new inter- and multi-disciplinary solutions to the challenges of sustainable public procurement, sustainable corporate behavior, and sustainable changes to higher education curricula. As timely actions require coherent sustainability policies, this Special Issue aims to gather the newest sustainable developments in three distinct but correlated sectors:
- Sustainable public procurement
- Sustainable corporate practices
- Sustainable changes to higher education curricula
This Special Issue welcomes theoretical and empirical contributions from diverse scientific fields related to the three broadly defined areas of sustainable research and practice, which are to be presented at the (In)Corporate Sustainability Conference 2–4 September, 2020 at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. Inter- and multidisciplinary works accounting for the recent policy changes at the EU and international level on sustainability will be prioritized.
The scope of discussion of this Special Issue of Sustainability involves policy coherence for sustainability in the fields of public procurement, corporate law and practice, and higher education. Although progress in singular matters and fields connected with sustainability has been considerable, the spill-over effects of the newly developed solutions and policies remain unclear. This Special Issue seeks to define the borders of the scientific and business progress on the matter and issues with implementing novel solutions, adapted to the current search for sustainable solutions, into the higher education curricula. The scope and structure of the present Special Issue complement the three-part structure of the SCOM project, which represents the basis for the Special Issue and the (In)Corporate Sustainability Conference.
Dr. Lela Mélon
Prof. Roberto Caranta
Dr. Carlos Ignacio Gómez Ligüerre
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainable public procurement
- Lifecycle assessment
- Policy coherence for sustainability
- Corporate law
- Corporate governance
- Higher education curricula
- Sustainable management
- EU Green Deal
- Climate change
- Circular economy
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