Assessment 3 Journal Entry 1 Corporate sustainability characterizes aspects aimed at "ensuring long-lasting business success by contributing to social and economic development, a stable society and a healthy environment". As part of their core principles, companies dedicated to sustainable business implement superior standards in areas such as gender equity, environmental protection, community development, employee benefits and a number of apparent associations between a company's management, its shareholders, its board of directors, and other stakeholders. which constitute “corporate governance” (Steiner & Steiner, 2009). Social sustainability is an aspect of sustainable development or sustainability. It includes labor rights, human rights and corporate governance. Along with environmental sustainability, the concept of social sustainability refers to the idea that future generations should have similar or greater access to social reserves within the current generation, while there must be equivalent access to social reserves within the current generation. existing. Businesses should care about social sustainability as it has emerged as the third element of a thriving sustainable business strategy, along with environmental and economic sustainability. Social sustainability has become crucial to the practice and definition of sustainability in several respects. Crane (2008) confirmed this; to begin with, this concept is inextricably linked to environmental and economic sustainability. A stable social environment favors the achievement of environmental and economic sustainability. On the contrary, war, the antithesis of this concept, generates unsustainable environments and economies, particularly when link...... middle of paper ......e, L (ed.) 2008, Corporate Social Responsibility : readings and cases in a global context, Abdingdon, Routledge.Ellis, D et al 1997, Career Planning, Houghton Mifflin, Boston.Hartman, LP & DesJardins, J 2008, Business Ethics: Decision Making for Personal Integrity and social responsibility, McGraw-Hill /Irwin, Boston.Homer-Dixon, T1999, Environment, scarcity and violence, Princeton University Press, New Jersey.Marcus, A 1996, Business and society: strategy, ethics and the global economy, Irwin, Chicago. Sandhu, S 2010, 'Paradigm shifts in corporate environmentalism: from poachers to gamekeepers', Business and Society Review, vol. 115, no. 3, pp. 285-310.Steiner, JF & Steiner, G.A. 2009, Business, Government and Society: A Managerial Perspective, Text and Cases, 12ed, McGraw-Hill, Boston.Walsh, A 2002, Career Planning, Frederick Fell Publishers, Florida.