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Driving Public Organisations Towards Sustainability

Authors : Mauro Romanelli, Patrizia Gazzola

Published in: Finance and Sustainability

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Sustainable organisations should serve the public interest and contribute to public value creation within ecosystems by promoting the quality of human resources, introducing information and communication technologies (ICTs), and ensuring sustainable financial reporting and communication to improve social and economic benefits for communities within society. The study aims to provide a framework to explain how to drive public organisations towards sustainability. Public organisations should consider sustainability as a goal and vision that guides strategy and action and enables value creation within ecosystems.

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Title: Driving Public Organisations Towards Sustainability
Authors: Mauro Romanelli
Patrizia Gazzola
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Finance and Sustainability
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-34400-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-34401-6

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34401-6_1