Introduction
Sustainable organization is a concept that describes organizations that follow or are committed to advancing the principles of sustainable development. The Agenda 2030 urged organizations to become more sustainable in order to fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Becoming a sustainable organization is a complex issue that requires the radical transformation in many organizational structures to strengthen their corporate sustainability.
This chapter presents the basic premise of a sustainable organization starting with a definition of the term followed by a description of the strategies used to balance the economic, social, and environmental dimensions in sustainable organizations. Next, an explanation of how the standards from the International Organization for Standardization have played a role in implementing sustainability initiatives are provided. Following this discussion, a description of how corporate social sustainability is an important characteristic of...
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Munguia Vega, N.E. (2019). Sustainable Organizations. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_535
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