Volume Four focuses on research drawn from work grounded in “Sustainability.” Scholars known in this discipline contribute to a 360-degree evaluation of the theory, including cross-discipline research, empirical explorations, cross-cultural studies, literature critiques, and meta-analysis projects.

Chapter 1. Business and Society in the Anthropocene, Paul Shrivastava and Laszlo Zsolnai Chapter 2.Advancing a Multi-Level Sustainability Management Theory, Mark Starik and Patricia Kanashiro ; Chapter 3. A Strategy to Support Transformation towards Sustainability Globally: The SDG Transformation Forum, Steve Waddell and Sandra Waddock Chapter 4. Global Wisdom and the Audacity of Hope: Designing Global Networks in a World of Complexity ;Nancy Adler Chapter 5: Sustainability and Implicit Contracts, Nicola Misani Chapter 6. Enabling an Intrinsic Perspective towards Approaching Tensions in CS Decisions through Moral Imagination: A Conceptual Framework, S. Ramya Muruganantham, Fong Keng-Highberger, and Rupashree Baral Chapter 7. Business Collective Action for Corporate Sustainability , Natalia Vidal and Harry Van Buren ; Chapter 8. Sustainable Real Estate: Transitioning beyond Cost Savings, Thomas Walker and Sherif Goubran ; Chapter 9. Making the Intangible Tangible: Integrated Management and the Social Cost of Carbon, ;Robert Sroufe Chapter 10. The Case for the Plastic Tax: A Review of its Benefits and Disadvantages within a Circular Economy, Thomas Walker, Dieter Gramlich, and Adele Dumont-Bergeron Chapter 11. The Sustainability and Popularity Paradoxes of SIM Scholarship, Sandra Waddock and Jegoo Lee

'An important and insightful collection on the social and ecological sustainability of business. World-class experts lead us through the last three decades of research, and then challenge and inspire us to transform both our thinking and action on sustainable business.'