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Bibliography

Agustina Alicia Cavazos-Garza, and Tom Krueger. "Hiring a Sustainability Officer can Save a Sinking Ship: Financial Statement Evidence." Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, vol. 11, no. 1, 2015, pp. 3. ProQuest Business Collection (Alumni Edition).

Dr. Agustina discusses how financial performance and sustainability are linked. Specifically, it expands on how a CSO can improve a company’s bottom line. This will aid the Wikipedia article “Chief sustainability officer” by providing an example of a positive impact a CSO can have.

David Kiron, et al. "Corporate Sustainability at a Crossroads." MIT Sloan Management Review, vol. 58, no. 4, 2017. ABI/INFORM Global (Corporate).

The MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group give an overview of sustainability in business over the last eight years. The overview includes examples of sustainable strategies. My edits to this article will include these strategies as examples of what initiatives a CSO can implement. The overview of the macroeconomic environment in which sustainability trends take place will also be useful.

Eleanor Hunt. "SUSTAINABILITY Fans the Flame of INNOVATION." Baylor Business Review, vol. 36, no. 1, Oct 1, 2017, pp. 22.

Hunt discusses how sustainability and invention often compliment and encourage each other. The article will also benefit from the discussion of sustainability trends across time. This will give a sense for why the position is important and update the trends already presented in the article.

Fu, Ruchunyi, Yi Tang, and Guoli Chen. "Chief Sustainability Officers and Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility." Strategic Management Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2020, pp. 656-680. CrossRef, doi:10.1002/smj.3113.

Fu, Tang, and Chen examine the effectiveness of CSOs on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the impact of the position on a company’s CSiR. This source will be utilized in a section describing challenges of the position. As the source emphasizes the CSO’s effect on CSiR, it will serve as a source that showcases the reality of the position, not simply its intent.

"Gerdeman, Dina. “What do Chief Sustainability Officers do?” Forbes, Forbes, 8 October 2014, https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2014/10/08/what-do-chief-sustainabilty-officers-do/?sh=235240eb5cf4. Accessed 15 November 2020.".

Gerdeman outlines responsibilities of CSOs. This source will be useful in writing the lead, where a short description of the position will be provided. It also may be used in the section describing the role of CSOs.

Henry, Leona A., Tine Buyl, and Rob J. G. Jansen. "Leading Corporate Sustainability: The Role of Top Management Team Composition for Triple Bottom Line Performance." Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 28, no. 1, 2019, pp. 173-184. CrossRef, doi:10.1002/bse.2247.

Henry, Buyl, and Jansen assess the ability of management to increase profits, social responsibility, and sustainability concurrently. The source also reflects on the importance of the presence of a CSO in top management. This will aid the article by providing an overview of how CSOs fit into management structures.

John Crabb. "Sustainable Finance Will Emerge Stronger from Covid-19 Rebalancing." International financial law review, Mar 22, 2020.

Crabb notes the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Environmental, Social, and Governmental(ESG) factors. For this Wikipedia article, the section on environmental awareness will be used to create a current picture of the position of CSO.

Kanashiro, Patricia, and Jorge Rivera. "Do Chief Sustainability Officers make Companies Greener? the Moderating Role of Regulatory Pressures." Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 155, no. 3, 2017, pp. 687-701. CrossRef, doi:10.1007/s10551-017-3461-2.

Kanashiro and Rivera examine how the presence of a CSO affects a company’s environmental practices. They also show the connection environmental objectives in business have to regulation. This source will aid in writing part of a section about the reality of the job, and the effect it has on an organization’s sustainability.

Peters, Gary, Andrea Romi, and Juan Sanchez. "The Influence of Corporate Sustainability Officers on Performance." Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 159, no. 4, 2019, pp. 1065-1087. CrossRef, doi:10.1007/s10551-018-3818-1.

Peters, Romi, and Sanchez researched CSO appointments and the impact they have on organizational structure with relation to environmental objectives and impact. They found that the position may be more symbolic than substantial. This will allow for elaboration on why companies appoint CSOs in the challenges section.

Rego, Arménio, Miguel P. e. Cunha, and Daniel Polónia. "Corporate Sustainability: A View from the Top." Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 143, no. 1, 2017, pp. 133-157. CrossRef, doi:10.1007/s10551-015-2760-8.

Rego, Cunha, and Polonia study the position of the CSO and its impact in Portugal. This will give an international perspective to the article as sustainability and CSOs are not uniform across the world.

Strand, Robert. "The Chief Officer of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Study of its Presence in Top Management Teams." Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 112, no. 4, 2012, pp. 721-734. CrossRef, doi:10.1007/s10551-012-1568-z.

Strand analyzes the presence of sustainability related positions in management. This source will be utilized to expand and increase the conciseness of the Alternate titles section. Similar positions will be noted and elaborated on.

Tacheva, Zhasmina, Natalie Simpson, and Anton Ivanov. "Examining the Role of Top Management in Corporate Sustainability: Does Supply Chain Position Matter?" Sustainability (Basel, Switzerland), vol. 12, no. 18, 2020, pp. 7518. CrossRef, https://doaj.org/article/5f80e35c25754dc8826fca641c599432, doi:10.3390/su12187518.

Tacheva, Simpson, and Ivanov study the impact of supply chain position on the importance of sustainability in a company. They also note how management’s opinion on sustainability differs throughout the supply chain. This source will give the article another perspective on sustainability and how it changes throughout a supply chain.

Wiengarten, Frank. ""How does Sustainability Leadership Affect Firm Performance?" Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 140, no. 3, 2017, pp. 477-493, http://www.econis.eu/PPNSET?PPN=886401399.

Weingarten examines how stakeholders impact a company’s sustainability. He focuses on factors related to the management team as well as to the supply chain position. This source will be important for discussing organizational change in the article.

"World Business Council for Sustainable Development. “Defining the Role of Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs).” EXCEL Q3 Spotlight, EXCEL, December 2018, https://docs.wbcsd.org/2019/01/Defining_the_Role_of_Chief_Sustainability_Officers.pdf."

The World business Council for Sustainable Development creates a framework with their partner companies to create parameters for the role of CSO in an organization. This will help in writing the “Chief sustainability officer” article by providing a concrete, industry norm job description.

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