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The chapters in this edited book investigated how business deals with different issues of sustainability. The aim of achieving sustainability seems to be widely accepted. This chapter provides a comparative assessment of the previous empirical chapters and relates their empirical findings to the propositions put forth by Schmitter as well as the motivations of business to join the collective action and self regulatory regimes which were scrutinised in the introductory chapter. The argument proceeds as follows. The next section describes the dimensions of sustainability that were analysed in the empirical chapters. Then, the different forms of business participation are compared. The final section provides a comparative assessment of enabling factors which either nudge or enforce business participation in sustainability policies.
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Lang, A. (2014). Business and Sustainability: A Synopsis. In: Lang, A., Murphy, H. (eds) Business and Sustainability. Sustainability and Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07239-5_10
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