Towards a New Model of Sustainable Business

Antonio Tencati, assistant professor of Management and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and Francesco Perrini, full professor of Management and CSR and director of CReSV, Research center on sustainability and value, both of the Department of Management and Technology, have edited Business Ethics And Corporate Sustainability (Edward Elgar, 2011, 264 pages), a collection of 14 essays written by 20 international scholars. The essays are based on papers presented at the fifth edition of the TransAtlantic Business Ethics Conference (TABEC), the conference which every two years gathers the leading North-American and European scholars of business ethics and CSR, which was held in SDA Bocconi in 2008.

The various studies in the book, including essays by Tencati and Perrini, reflect upon how to rethink the role of businesses, markets and stakeholders in order to design more sustainable models of development for business and society. Together, the contributing authors advance new and innovative perspectives to rethink current business models and address the sustainability challenge.

Since 2002 Tencati and Perrini are the only Italian scholars invited to TABEC and in 2008, as Conference Chair, were in charge of the organization of the fifth edition. The book is the first volume of the new series Studies in TransAtlantic Business Ethics published by Edward Elgar Publishing.