Progressive Business Models Creating Sustainable and Pro-Social Enterprise [Hardcover]

This book presents and analyses exemplary cases of progressive business, understood as ecologically sustainable, future-respecting and pro-social enterprise. The authors present a number of companies following progressive business practices from a range of industries including ethical and sustainable banking, artisan coffee production and distribution, pharmaceutical products, clean technology, governance in retailing, responsible hospitality and consumer goods. With case studies from around Europe such as Tridos Bank in The Netherlands, B?res Co. in Hungary, Novo Nordisk in Denmark, Lumituuli in Finland, John Lewis in the UK and Illy Caf? from Italy, these progressive companies have global reach and an international impact. The collected cases aim to show the best to be expected from business in the 21st century in a structured accessible way, suitable for any readers interested in innovative ways of creating forward-looking sustainable business.

Preface.- Part I Introduction.- 1.?What is Progressive Business? (Eleanor OHiggins and Laszlo Zsolnai).- Part II ?Progressive Business Cases.-2.?Banking on Values  Triodos Bank (Nel Hofstra and Luit Kloosterman).- 3. The Power of Tradition  B?res Pharmaceuticals (Andr?s ?csai and Zsolt Boda).- 4.?Coffee Making as Art  Illycaf? (Antonio Tencati).- 5.?Staff Inclusion  DKV Integralia (Marc Vilanova and Silvia Agull?).- 6.?Economy for the Common Good  Sonnentor (Michael Muller-Camen and Jutta Camen).- 7.?The Business of Recycling  Armor (Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot).- 8. Clean Energy  Lumituuli ?(Mikko Jalas and Jukka M?kinen).- 9.?The Ethos of Partnership  John Lewis Partnership (Eleanor OHiggins).- 10.?The Danish Model of Corporate Citizenship  The Novo Group (Jacob Dahl Rendtorff).- 11.?