Publications
Publications
- 2014
- Zhongguo ke xue yuan yuan kan [Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences]
Framework for China's Novel Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy
By: Robert G. Eccles and Peijun Duan
Abstract
China’s sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is insufficient; second, some resources and environment loads have reached their limits; third, some products affecting the health and rights of the people as well as the related entities’ behavior are challenging the legal and moral bottom line. These three aspects are required to establish a new evaluation system including the indexes of economic performance, environmental performance, and social responsibility evaluation, which cover the company in the national, regional, and corporate levels for the purpose of realizing the comprehensive evaluation of economic and environmental performance and social responsibility. Considering the lessons learned from implementing a national evaluation system of green GDP, and before forming the system complexity model, the easiest issues first can be taken to establish the evaluation system of economic, environmental, and social responsibility respectively, which will be integrated in practice by the executive entities. The strategy of a new evaluation system should adjust the structure of the original evaluation system with the idea of reform and require the development of the rule of law, including formulating relevant laws and the legal framework. This paper proposes three specific suggestions about the new sustainable evaluation system and emphasizes that the evaluation based on the integrated report is the specific performance of the new evaluation system strategy at the enterprise level.
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Citation
Eccles, Robert G., and Peijun Duan. "Framework for China's Novel Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy." Art. 1. Zhongguo ke xue yuan yuan kan [Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences] 29, no. 4 (2014): 401–409.