Auto Body Repair: Sustainability Strategies

This assignment examines the concept of sustainability within the context of an auto body repair business. The report analyzes key strategic issues, including environmental impacts, social responsibility, and consumer concerns. It emphasizes the importance of adopting sustainable practices to ensure long-term business success in a competitive market.

Running head: BUSINESS FOR SUSTAINIBILITY
Business for sustainability
Name of the student
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Strategic Issues................................................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
Sustainability refers to the stability of the business in the future. In a business it can be
said as the management of the multiple benefits, making the decisions that are involved in the
formulation of the economy and making decisions that do not harm the society and environment.
The company which follows these rules will surely be sustainable and can enjoy a long tenure in
the market (Carroll & Buchholtz, 2014). The author of this short report has a business of auto
body repairs and maintenance. The aim of this research is to find out the sustainable features that
will help the business and identify the issues that is a threat to the business (Dyllick & Muff,
2016).
Strategic Issues
The most significant and notable strategic issue that has been discussed in the case study
has been the sustainability issue. There has always been a conflict- a steady one- between the
economic growth and environmental development. Environmental issue has always remained a
major problem pertaining to the overall development of an organization.
The companies that claim them and their products to be sustainable cannot claim such a thing as
because sustainability is supposed to be feature of the entire system (Carroll & Buchholtz, 2014).
Every business is now identifying strategies based on the environmental and social impacts of
the market. It also assesses the external environment for scanning the external environment for
threats and opportunities (Dyllick & Muff, 2016). Presence in social media is nowadays
considered to be the main task of the organization as because social media is used by a large
number of people to learn about the organization, its works, its products and many more as such

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(Dyllick & Muff, 2016). Strategies should be made in accordance with the climate change
decisions.
The actions pursed by the organization in three of the important aspects in terms of creating an
effective understanding on the basis of the consumers’ concern in social media pages. In this
section this has to be taken into certain consideration that this has been taken into certain The
companies must put extra efforts to curb their carbon footprints (Carroll & Buchholtz,
2014).Providing the consumers with organic and natural products will help the company to be
sustainable (Dyllick & Muff, 2016). Retaining the best talents of the workforce is another
strategic measure that will help the organization to attain sustainability (Dyllick & Muff, 2016).

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References
Carroll, A., & Buchholtz, A. (2014). Business and society: Ethics, sustainability, and stakeholder
management. Nelson Education.
Dyllick, T., & Muff, K. (2016). Clarifying the meaning of sustainable business: Introducing a
typology from business-as-usual to true business sustainability. Organization &
Environment, 29(2), 156-174.