Business Logic for Sustainability An Analysis of the Food and Beverage Industry
by Ionescu-Somers, Aileen; Steger, UlrichFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-09-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
This book explores corporate sustainability management in the food and beverage industry, whilst also addressing the threats of impending legislation and the latest debates, such as obesity and the coffee crisis.
Table of Contents
| List of Tables | p. viii |
| List of Figures | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. xii |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xiv |
| Foreword | p. xvi |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Executive Summary | p. xix |
| Building the Business Logic | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Background: the conundrum | p. 4 |
| Conceptual framework | p. 6 |
| The BCS project | p. 7 |
| Research questions and objectives | p. 8 |
| Terminology | p. 9 |
| Research instruments | p. 10 |
| Survey results | p. 10 |
| Interviews with corporate executives and stakeholders | p. 11 |
| Participating companies | p. 12 |
| The roadmap | p. 13 |
| Industry and Competitive Analysis | p. 15 |
| Introduction | p. 15 |
| Industry definition and profile | p. 16 |
| Demographics, consumption trends and markets | p. 17 |
| Competitive analysis | p. 20 |
| Degree of rivalry | p. 21 |
| Barriers to entry | p. 22 |
| Threat of substitutes | p. 23 |
| Supplier power | p. 23 |
| Buyer power | p. 24 |
| Synthesis | p. 27 |
| The Economic Relevance of Sustainability Issues | p. 29 |
| Introduction | p. 29 |
| Industry awareness of sustainable development and issues | p. 30 |
| The food and beverage value chain | p. 36 |
| What are the issues? | p. 37 |
| Upstream | p. 41 |
| Raw materials and natural resource depletion | p. 41 |
| Social impacts | p. 50 |
| Market distortions | p. 52 |
| Power of multinationals | p. 54 |
| Operations and downstream | p. 59 |
| Manufacturing operations | p. 59 |
| Traceability and health | p. 62 |
| Synthesis | p. 74 |
| The Pressure of Stakeholders | p. 78 |
| Introduction | p. 78 |
| Food and beverage industry stakeholders | p. 79 |
| Deterring stakeholders | p. 80 |
| Promoting stakeholders | p. 94 |
| Synthesis | p. 108 |
| The Value of Value Drivers | p. 112 |
| Introduction | p. 112 |
| The concept of shareholder value | p. 113 |
| Food and beverage industry value drivers | p. 117 |
| Reputation enhancement and brand value | p. 121 |
| Attracting and retaining talent | p. 128 |
| Innovation and revenue increase | p. 132 |
| Synthesis | p. 143 |
| Rolling Out the Business Logic | p. 147 |
| Corporate Sustainability Management | p. 149 |
| Introduction | p. 149 |
| Corporate culture, vision and the mindsets of managers | p. 151 |
| Sustainability strategy design | p. 160 |
| What good is a sustainability strategy? | p. 160 |
| Organizational structure | p. 166 |
| Structure and interaction between key business units | p. 166 |
| Importance of functions: 'Opposers' and 'Promoters' | p. 174 |
| Top management | p. 178 |
| The 'second layer' | p. 180 |
| The 'old guard' | p. 180 |
| 'New age' managers | p. 181 |
| Supply chain and purchasing officers | p. 182 |
| Brand and marketing managers | p. 185 |
| Processes and systems | p. 191 |
| Issue tracking, mapping and prioritization | p. 193 |
| Integrating issues into strategic decision-making | p. 199 |
| Implementation: working with mindsets and getting managers on board | p. 205 |
| Synthesis | p. 235 |
| References | p. 239 |
| Index | p. 249 |
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