Business and Sustainability ─ Between Government Pressure and Self-regulation

Demands for sustainability policies have set new challenges for business both on the individual firm level and on the level of organized business interests. This edited volume brings together economic, social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of sustainability that comprise different challenges for business processes and activities. The aim is to develop an overarching framework to the study of sustainability and business and to advance an interdisciplinary analytical perspective. The book establishes a balanced account that equally represents business as problem causers as well as problem solvers, and therefore responds to the urgent need to investigate the intersection between sustainability issues and business participation.

Achim Lang is lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Achim Lang held research positions at the University of Konstanz, the University of Cologne and the Darmstadt University of Technology. He authored "Die Evolution sektoraler Wirtschaftsverbande". He edited "Organized Business Interests in Changing Environments" (with J. Grote and V. Schneider) and "Innovation Policy and Governance in High-Tech Industries" (with J. Bauer and V. Schneider).

Hannah Murphy is a politics and international relations lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania, Australia. She is the author of "The Making of International Trade Policy: NGO's, Agenda-Setting and the WTO", as well as other works on the multilateral economic agencies and civil society groups. Her current research focuses on the global governance of employment and labour standards.