Sustainable human resource management and the triple bottom line: Multi-stakeholder strategies, concepts, and engagement

Abstract

As firms make the necessary transition to more sustainable business practices, human resource management scholarship and practice finds itself at an inflection point. To what degree does our discipline engage in sustainability, and expand to a multi-stakeholder triple bottom line (TBL) orientation? In this overview article to the special issue, we bring together papers which embrace the challenge of creating a new, more sustainable human resource management model with a multi-stakeholder triple bottom line orientation, which emphasizes environmental and social performance in addition to economic outcomes. In this paper, we coalesce the contributions of the manuscripts into an integrative framework for sustainable HRM, and identify six areas in which future research efforts should be directed to substantively advance this important work.