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Developing a successful sector sustainability strategy: six lessons from the UK construction products industry

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posted on 2014-11-20, 14:03 authored by Ian R. Holton, Jacqui Glass, Andrew Price
Sector sustainability strategies can provide frameworks to help business sectors identify and manage economic, environmental and social risks in an integrated way, and unlock opportunities to improve competitiveness and enhance reputation. They can also help trade associations to become more effective champions for their members; however, little research has been undertaken on their development. Current best practice guidance simply provides frameworks for managing the strategy development process. To add to this guidance, the context, purpose, process and content of three strategies from the UK construction products industry have been investigated. Strategy context and content were found to be unique; it is therefore not considered feasible to develop a generic sector sustainability strategy. However, six lessons have been identified with respect to strategy purpose and process, which may improve the chances of success of a sector sustainability strategy.

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Volume

15

Issue

1

Pages

29 - 42 (14)

Citation

HOLTON, I., GLASS, J. and PRICE, A.D.F., 2008. Developing a successful sector sustainability strategy: six lessons from the UK construction products industry. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 15 (1), pp. 29 - 42.

Publisher

© John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2008

Notes

This article is closed access.

ISSN

1535-3958

Language

  • en