1. INTRODUCTION The concept of sustainable development was outlined in the Brundtland report (WCED 1987); it “is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. For Elkington (1994), a company contributes to sustainable development by simultaneously providing economic, social and environmental benefits - the so-called triple bottom line. This commitment to sustainable development is in agreement with the Green Paper (Commission of the European Communities, 2001), in which corporate responsibility is defined as “the voluntary integration, by enterprises, social and environmental concerns in their business operations and their relationships with their stakeholders”. The need to promote sustainable economic development is a challenge for private companies and government institutions, which in recent decades have sought solutions in this regard by constructing protocols, conventions and agreements in several international summits. At the same time, the creation of guidelines, standards, certification systems, codes of conduct and ethical principles lead businesses into a wide debate about the management tools that are used to ensure sustainable development planning. In this context, our aim is to consider the future of corporate sustainability through all of these instruments and management policies implemented by companies in pursuit of sustainable development as well as proposing model-based approaches that enable the rediscovery of new ways of managing not only the companies but also their aims, strategies and policies to make the prosperity of companies compatible with a high quality of life at the planetary level.