Fluxos e Riscos : Revista de Estudos Sociais vol. 5 nº 04 (2019)

URI permanente para esta coleção:

http://hdl.handle.net/10437/11545

Navegar

Percorrer Fluxos e Riscos : Revista de Estudos Sociais vol. 5 nº 04 (2019) por autor "FCSEA - Faculty of Social Sciences, Education and Administration"

A mostrar 1 - 2 de 2
  • Item
    Sustainability and profitability can coexist : improving business models
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2019) Herciu, Mihaela; FCSEA - Faculty of Social Sciences, Education and Administration
    Profitability and sustainability at business level represent two major objectives that have to be integrated into company’s strategy. They are not antagonistic concepts; they can work together in order to develop and improve business models. A company does not shift her status overnight. The aim of the paper is to analyze the most commonly used business models, on one hand, and to identify some ways for improvement, by considering synergistic approach of profitability and sustainability, on the other hand. Extended literature indicates the necessity of reshaping business models. In many cases, companies can combine different, but converged, business models simultaneously, or can consider business model portfolio. In short, business model is about putting strategy into action. Concepts like corporate social responsibility or sustainability are more and more present into the companies’ day by day activities. That does not mean that profitability is passed to second place; it`s first place is generally accepted and assumed. However, by putting together, profitability and sustainability can drive to a long-term sustainable competitive advantage. In order to sustain and demonstrate that profitability and sustainability can coexist, some correlation analysis was conducted, by including companies from different industries, based on: 2017 Annual Corporate Sustainability Assessment developed by RobecoSAM AG (which include 60 industries and 2479 companies); Dow Jones Sustainability Index and ESG Score (Environment, Social and Governance); data collected from balance sheet, income statement and Bloomberg; Fortune Global 500. The results of the paper reveal that there is a correlation between the most profitable companies in the world and the most sustainable one, but the achieved results of each company are based on different business models.
  • Item
    Sustainable investments in western european countries : a multidimensional approach
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2019) Janik, Bogna; Maruszewska, Katarzyna; FCSEA - Faculty of Social Sciences, Education and Administration
    This study analyzes the factors affecting the development of sustainable investments in Western European countries such as: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. These countries have been chosen intentionally because the authors wanted to analyze a homogenous research sample of highly developed European countries. According to Eurosif, sustainable investments have been present in all of the selected 12 countries. The intention of the authors is not to compare the countries per se, but to use the quantitative economic and socio-cultural data in order to find the similarities and differences between them and to indicate the groups of countries with a similar approach to sustainable investments. To solve the problem, the multivariate technique was used – correspondence analysis (CA). The results show significant diversification of the countries in terms of socio-cultural perspective, economic, socio-demographic, ecological and innovative factors.