Examine the conditioning factors leading to the development of the sustainability agenda

Learning outcomes

What could you be doing in the assignment? Examine the conditioning factors leading to the development of the sustainability agenda Identifying and discussing the impact of relevant Triple Bottom Line (TBL) issues Evaluate the challenges faced by businesses from the demands of the sustainability agenda Linking the TBL issues to specific business challenges How do the issues affect business practice? How are these issues reflected specifically within the context of your chosen sector? What are consumers’ perceptions of sustainability issues within this sector? Compare and contrast alternative sustainable business management options for impact-free or impactpositive profit How are challenges being met by the sector? What are the potential wicked problems and their consequences? To what extent do consumers (and other stakeholders) have a role to play in creating problems and/or solutions? How do different options for meeting challenges compare against each other? Are impact-free / impact-positive solutions unachievable? Critically apply sustainable business models in order to evaluate the effectiveness of sustainable business strategies and tactics Determining the business strategy and tactics of your chosen provider based on the evidence you have gathered Evaluating what your chosen provider does to deal with TBL issues / business challenges Deciding how well your chosen company addresses its challenges Does your chosen business manage to avoid or reduce wicked problems and their consequences? What are other similar businesses doing? Are they better at dealing with challenges? How could your provider learn from the best practice of others? What is the way forward for this business, recommendations, future solutions?