Business and environmental drivers of return on natural resources

Article based on research by Tobias Hahn & Frank Figge

More than two decades after the concept of sustainable development was first adopted in the field of management scholarship, there is a growing consensus that firms depend on natural resources and well-functioning ecosystems to generate long-term profits.

Yet despite the magnitude of sustainability-related challenges, few studies address the question of how well firms perform in terms of their usage of natural resources. New research from Esade’s Tobias Hahn and co-author Frank Figge addresses this gap: they explain how business and environment-related firm activities influence the use of natural resources.