Progressive Business Models Creating Sustainable and Pro-Social Ente

This book presents and analyses exemplary cases of progressive business, understood as ecologically sustainable, future-respecting and pro-social enterprise. The authors present a number of companies following progressive business practices from a range o

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Eleanor O’Higgins & László Zsolnai

PA L G R AV E S T U D I E S I N S U S TA I N A B L E B U S I N E S S

In Association with Futur e Earth

Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business In Association with Future Earth

Series editors Paul Shrivastava Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, USA László Zsolnai Corvinus University Budapest Budapest, Hungary

Sustainability in Business is increasingly becoming the forefront issue for researchers, practitioners and companies the world over. Engaging with this immense challenge, Future Earth is a major international research platform from a range of disciplines, with a common goal to support and achieve global sustainability. This series will define a clear space for the work of Future Earth Finance and Economics Knowledge-Action Network. Publishing key research with a holistic and trans-disciplinary approach, it intends to help reinvent business and economic models for the Anthropocene, geared towards engendering sustainability and creating ecologically conscious organizations. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15667

Eleanor O’Higgins · László Zsolnai Editors

Progressive Business Models Creating Sustainable and Pro-social Enterprise

Editors Eleanor O’Higgins University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

László Zsolnai Corvinus University of Budapest Budapest, Hungary

Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business In Association with Future Earth ISBN 978-3-319-58803-2 ISBN 978-3-319-58804-9  (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58804-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017948271 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Melinda Podor/Getty Images Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Inter