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European Corporate Sustainability Framework for Managing Complexity and Corporate Transformation

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The European Corporate Sustainability Framework (ECSF) is a new generation management framework, aimed to meet increased corporate complexity and support corporate transformation towards more sustainable ways of doing business. It is a multi-layer, integral business framework with an analytical, contextual, situational and dynamic dimension.

Analytically, the framework is structured according to four focus points – the constitutional, conceptual, behavioural and evaluative perspective – providing integrative designs of complex and dynamic phenomena. The framework includes coherent sets of business philosophies, approaches, concepts and tools that structures corporate realities and generates sequences of steps in order to obtain adequate institutional structures, a road to corporate transformation and higher performance levels.

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van Marrewijk, M., Hardjono, T.W. European Corporate Sustainability Framework for Managing Complexity and Corporate Transformation. Journal of Business Ethics 44, 121–132 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023335414065

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