Sustainability Reporting By Smes In The Creative Industry

Author : Sanne van der Veer
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3845416025

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Sustainability Reporting by SMEs in the Creative Industry by Sanne van der Veer Pdf

Carlijn Lindemulder - Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at ID&T: "The creative industry can play an important role in the transition to a sustainable society. By using their power of speech, reach and influence, companies in the creative industries are able to address sustainability topics in a way that inspires other industries and people to engage in sustainability. Sanne gives a good insight in the challenges that SMEs are facing in sustainable entrepreneurship and the reporting and promoting of it. I agree with her statement that businesses should start acknowledging their efforts in sustainability, making this a topic of conversation to their stakeholders. I believe that when businesses in the creative industry start operating in a sustainable way, and start communicating about it, it may motivate and inspire a lot of people to join them on the path to a more sustainable world. Since one of Sanne's conclusions is that part of the reason entrepreneurs don't engage in - or communicate about - sustainability, is a lack of knowledge, I sincerly recommend creative entrepreneurs read this thesis to gain more insights into their own possible achievements."

Author : Elisa Innerhofer,Harald Pechlaner,Elena Borin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319655062

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Entrepreneurship in Culture and Creative Industries by Elisa Innerhofer,Harald Pechlaner,Elena Borin Pdf

This book explains and analyzes entrepreneurship and cultural management issues in the creative and cultural sectors and discusses the impacts of economic, social and structural changes on cultural entrepreneurship. The expert contributions investigate the role of cultural entrepreneurship in regional and destination management and development by presenting best practice examples. It offers various interdisciplinary approaches, including perspectives from the fields of entrepreneurship and management, regional and destination management and development, sociology, psychology, innovation as well as creative industries, and also features articles exploring cultural entrepreneurship on a corporate as well as on a spatial level – or in other words in regions and destinations.

Author : Elaine Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351275620

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Sustainability Reporting for SMEs by Elaine Cohen Pdf

Sustainability reporting can help companies make more money. Sustainability Reporting for SMEs shows you how. Reporting, done well, requires a company to make public a set of promises that bind the company to its sustainability commitments. By adopting a transparent approach to both business practice and reporting, SMES can gain significant business advantage, both in terms of more effective internal processes and in terms of reputation and business-building.Elaine Cohen provides guidance and tools for actual actions that will improve the sustainability impacts of your company, and a process for reporting that adds value which is much greater than the printed or online report itself. This book will help SMEs develop "the transparency habit" so that they both make more money and contribute more proactively to the sustainability of our society and planet.It is vital reading for SME owners and managers, entrepreneurs, business and sustainability students and teachers, and consultants. Sustainability managers in larger organisations will find this book helpful in assisting their organisations manage their supply chains which undoubtedly include several SMEs.

Author : UNESCO,World Bank (the)
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231004520

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Cities, Culture and Creativity by UNESCO,World Bank (the) Pdf

Culture and creativity have untapped potential to deliver social, economic, and spatial benefits for cities and communities. Cultural and creative industries are key drivers of the creative economy and represent important sources of employment, economic growth, and innovation, thus contributing to city competitiveness and sustainability. Through their contribution to urban regeneration and sustainable urban development, cultural and creative industries make cities more attractive places for people to live in and for economic activity to develop. Culture and creativity also contribute to social cohesion at the neighborhood level, enable creative networks to form and advance innovation and growth, and create opportunities for those who are often socially and economically excluded. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a deep impact on the cultural sector, yet it has also revealed the power of cultural and creative industries as a resource for city recovery and resilience. More generally, cities are hubs of the creative economy and have a critical role to play in harnessing the transformative potential of cultural and creative industries through policies and enabling environments at the local level. 'Cities, Culture, and Creativity' (CCC) provides guiding principles and a CCC Framework, developed by UNESCO and the World Bank, to support cities in unlocking the power of cultural and creative industries for sustainable urban development, city competitiveness, and social inclusion. Drawing from global studies and the experiences of nine diverse cities from across the world, the CCC Framework offers concrete guidance for the range of actors -- city, state, and national governments; creative industry and related private-sector organizations; creatives; culture professionals and civil society-- to harness culture and creativity with a view to boosting their local creative economies and building resilient, inclusive, and dynamic cities.

Author : Muhammad Nawaz Tunio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031484537

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Sustainability in Creative Industries by Muhammad Nawaz Tunio Pdf

Author : Rafael Cano-Guervos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031508943

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Sustainability in Creative Industries by Rafael Cano-Guervos Pdf

Author : Elaine Cohen,Alexandra McKay,Philip Wolfe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351274784

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Sustainability for SMEs by Elaine Cohen,Alexandra McKay,Philip Wolfe Pdf

Sustainability for SMEs offers a comprehensive introduction to the key business cases and techniques for putting sustainability at the heart of your business strategy.Small businesses make a significant collective impact on the environment and society – but only a tiny percentage of SMEs complete a sustainability report. Sustainability Reporting for SMEs will enable any SME to get up to speed on sustainability reporting and plot a course of action for their business. Elaine Cohen distils the latest and best thinking on sustainability reporting for SMEs, and offers a process for reporting that will deliver significant business advantage, both in terms of more effective internal processes and in terms of reputation, customer loyalty and business-building.In many SMEs sustainability is one person’s passion and responsibility. A large part of their job becomes selling sustainability to other people in the business. Strategic Sustainability offers arguments, information and tactics that will help that person get the buy-in they need to move sustainability forward in their business. Sustainability is of strategic importance to a business. This book makes an airtight case for why action is essential and how sustainability can help a business not only survive but thrive in competitive marketplaces.The major environmental impact of most businesses derives from energy usage. There are many ways to make your organisation's energy usage more sustainable. In Sustainable Energy Options for Business, Philip Wolfe outlines the best available options for (1) reducing energy use and (2) improving the sustainability of energy supply. After an introduction to regulatory drivers and management issues, Wolfe looks at energy opportunities in five key areas.

Author : Aharon Factor,John Parm Ulhøi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429760778

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Sustainability and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises by Aharon Factor,John Parm Ulhøi Pdf

Industrialisation has brought great benefits to humankind but now, after 200 years of fossil fuel use, land clearance and pollution, the planet’s boundaries are being stretched to their limits. Going beyond these confines would have severe consequences for humankind. To prevent this from happening, government, corporate and community initiatives must focus on reducing the environmental impact of approximately 400 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), given that they produce approximately 70% of the world’s pollution, 60% of carbon emissions and have a significant impact on land. To date, research shows that SMEs have been environmental laggards and more needs to be understood to improve sustainability in the SME sector. Broadening the researcher’s methodological focus, beyond traditional singular approaches, improves knowledge generation and better informs policy and practice. This book paves the way by showing the reader that a mixed method research design is able to provide a deep, diverse and holistic understanding of sustainability and SMEs. Importantly, the book also provides an in-depth mapping of mixed method sustainability and SME research at a regional level. As this book is about environmental sustainability framed in a business context, it will be of interest to researchers, academics, students and those in industry who are enquiring about the environmental sustainability of SMEs.

Author : UNESCO,UNDP
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789230012113

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Creative Economy Report 2013 by UNESCO,UNDP Pdf

The special edition of the Report focuses on creative economy at the local level in developing countries. It is co-published by UNESCO and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through the UN Office for South South Co-operation. The Report is organized in two volumes: a policy report and a web-documentary that brings to life cases and trends, and opportunities and challenges of creative economy on the ground. The Report confirms the creative economy as one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy and a highly transformative one in terms of income generation, job creation and export earnings. But this is not all there is to it. For unlocking the potential of the creative economy also means promoting the overall creativity of societies, affirming the distinctive identity of the places where it flourishes and clusters, improving the quality of life there, enhancing local image and prestige and strengthening the resources for the imagining of diverse new futures. The evidence provided demonstrates how the cultural and creative industries are at the core of local creative economies in the global South and how they forge "new development pathways that encourage creativity and innovation in the pursuit of inclusive, equitable and sustainable growth and development" that the UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda exhorts the international community to take. The results of the Report will inform international debates on the post-2015 UN development agenda and the role of culture in sustainable development. It speaks to decision-makers, demonstrating some of the key factors that make creative economy initiatives successful on the ground.

Author : Morag Shiach,Tarek Virani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349951123

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Cultural Policy, Innovation and the Creative Economy by Morag Shiach,Tarek Virani Pdf

This book develops important new insights into the conditions that enable effective collaborations between arts and humanities researchers and SMEs in the creative economy. Drawing on the work of Creativeworks London, an AHRC-funded Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy, this is an in-depth study of how co-created and collaborative research projects work on the ground and will be of immense value to all these audiences. Chapters by researchers and practitioners examine a range of collaborative research projects supported by Creativeworks London’s vouchers, which cover a large number of creative industry sectors and academic disciplines. The book identifies key learning from these projects that has wider relevance for academics, funders, policy makers, and SMEs in the creative economy. Morag Shiach is Professor of Cultural history at Queen Mary University of London, UK, where she is also Director of Creativeworks London and Vice-Principal for Humanities and Social Sciences. Her publications include Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture; Feminism and Cultural Studies; Hélène Cixous: A Politics of Writing; and Discourse on Popular Culture. Dr. Virani obtained his PhD from King’s College London, UK. He is a full time researcher for Creativeworks London research project at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His research interests include the role of knowledge in the cultural economy, artistic knowledge within locally bounded artistic communities, and new work spaces in the creative and cultural economy. /div

Author : Elaine Cohen,Alexandra McKay,Philip Wolfe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351274791

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Sustainability for SMEs by Elaine Cohen,Alexandra McKay,Philip Wolfe Pdf

Sustainability for SMEs offers a comprehensive introduction to the key business cases and techniques for putting sustainability at the heart of your business strategy.Small businesses make a significant collective impact on the environment and society – but only a tiny percentage of SMEs complete a sustainability report. Sustainability Reporting for SMEs will enable any SME to get up to speed on sustainability reporting and plot a course of action for their business. Elaine Cohen distils the latest and best thinking on sustainability reporting for SMEs, and offers a process for reporting that will deliver significant business advantage, both in terms of more effective internal processes and in terms of reputation, customer loyalty and business-building.In many SMEs sustainability is one person’s passion and responsibility. A large part of their job becomes selling sustainability to other people in the business. Strategic Sustainability offers arguments, information and tactics that will help that person get the buy-in they need to move sustainability forward in their business. Sustainability is of strategic importance to a business. This book makes an airtight case for why action is essential and how sustainability can help a business not only survive but thrive in competitive marketplaces.The major environmental impact of most businesses derives from energy usage. There are many ways to make your organisation's energy usage more sustainable. In Sustainable Energy Options for Business, Philip Wolfe outlines the best available options for (1) reducing energy use and (2) improving the sustainability of energy supply. After an introduction to regulatory drivers and management issues, Wolfe looks at energy opportunities in five key areas.

Author : Edyta Rudawska
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787540392

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The Sustainable Marketing Concept in European SMEs by Edyta Rudawska Pdf

The book provides knowledge of sustainable marketing tools in SMEs operating in the industry.

Author : Abbe E.L. Brown,Charlotte Waelde
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786431172

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Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries by Abbe E.L. Brown,Charlotte Waelde Pdf

The creative industries are becoming of increasing importance from economic, cultural, and social perspectives. This Handbook explores the relationship, whether positive or negative, between creative industries and intellectual property (IP) rights.

Author : Kiran Mehta,Renuka Sharma
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783111170022

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Sustainability, Green Management, and Performance of SMEs by Kiran Mehta,Renuka Sharma Pdf

In a world facing environmental challenges and socio-economic inequalities, SMEs can drive positive change by integrating sustainability principles into their business practices. This book examines the relationship between sustainability, green management, and SME performance, providing insights, strategies, and case studies to guide SMEs towards a more sustainable future and long-term viability. Drawing from extensive research, the book analyzes the drivers, barriers, and motivations influencing SMEs' adoption of sustainability practices. It offers practical recommendations on overcoming resource constraints, awareness gaps, regulatory complexities, and resistance to change. It explores emerging trends such as digital technologies, circular economy approaches, clean energy transitions, and social innovation and discusses collaboration among SMEs, academia, and government agencies as a crucial factor for innovation and scaling up sustainable practices. Sustainability, Green Management and Performance of SMEs is a comprehensive and practical guide for SMEs seeking to integrate sustainability into their business strategies. It inspires and supports SMEs on their journey towards environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and long-term profitability, thus enabling them to unlock new business opportunities, gain a competitive edge, and secure their future in a changing global economy.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Science and Technology Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0104013524

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Waste Reduction by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Science and Technology Committee Pdf

Waste Reduction : 6th report of session 2007-08, Vol. 2: Evidence