This book is a focussed and up-to-date review about the key challenges, trends, implications, strategies, and ways of overcoming, that dynamic and competitive organizations are facing now and increasingly in future by climate change.
The book creates a better understanding of the impacts that climate transition will have on organizations and how they are responding to find opportunities while overcoming the risks. What corporate governance models can and are organizations developing? What climate transition strategies are organizations creating? Who should be involved in the decision-making processes? To what extent are principles of transparency, equity, participation, inclusion, effectiveness, and efficiency present in corporate governance for climate transitions? These and other issues are just a few of the challenges that organizations by the climate change transition.
International experts from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives have been invited to contribute to this book in order for providing a comprehensive and informed perspective for researchers, corporate leaders and students of business and management as well as environmental studies.
Author(s): Carolina Machado João Paulo Davim
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 264
City: Cham
Preface
Contents
Editors and Contributors
The Future of Corporate Purpose: Merging and Balancing Social, Environmental and Economic Considerations
1 Introduction
2 The Shift Towards Social Enterprises
3 Benefit Corporations and B Corps
4 Community Interest Companies (CIC)
5 Reflecting on the Present and Looking at the Future
6 Conclusion
References
Identifying Significant Shifts in Operating Environments: The Role of Corporate Governance
1 Introduction
2 What Is a Corporation?
2.1 Ingenious Invention
2.2 Multiple Understandings
3 Corporations Understood as Legal Entities
3.1 Legal Possibilities, Potentials, and Affordances
3.2 Corporate Member Perspectives
4 Corporate Understandings: Economic Entity or Political Entity?
4.1 Corporations Understood as Economic Entities
4.2 Corporations Understood as Political Entities
5 Corporate Navigation: Managerial and Governance Perspectives
5.1 The Managerial Perspective
5.2 The Governance Perspective
6 Change Inevitability in Operating Environments
6.1 Boundary Scanning
6.2 Change and Time Horizons
7 Guiding Corporations into Unsettled Futures
8 Conclusion
References
Governance Principles for Sustainable Urban Tourism and Climate Transition
1 Introduction
1.1 Governance and Tourism
1.2 Stakeholders
1.3 Dynamics and Biases
2 From Sustainability to Sustainable Tourism
2.1 Tourism and Sustainable Development
2.2 Tourism and Corporate Sustainability
2.3 Urban Development and Climate Change
3 ‘Post-smart’ Cities and ‘Wise’ Cities
4 Governance for Sustainable Tourism and Climate Transition
5 Conclusion and Policy Recommendations
References
Analysis and Forecasting of Water Resources and Use in the Context of Climate Transition in Selected EU Countries
1 Introduction
2 Analysis and Forecasting of Water Resources and Use
2.1 Research Methodology
2.2 Austria
2.3 Belgium
2.4 Bulgaria
2.5 Cyprus
2.6 Czechia
2.7 Denmark
2.8 Finland
2.9 France
2.10 Germany
2.11 Ireland
2.12 Italy
2.13 Luxembourg
2.14 Malta
2.15 The Netherlands
2.16 Poland
2.17 Slovakia
2.18 Slovenia
2.19 Spain
2.20 Sweden
2.21 Results and Discussions
3 Conclusions
References
An Introduction to the Use of Life Cycle Assessment in Machining
1 Introduction
2 Sustainability in Machining
2.1 Raw Materials
2.2 Energy
3 Life Cycle Assessment
3.1 Methodology
3.2 LCA of MachineTools
4 Life Cycle Assessment in Machining
4.1 Studies in Machining Processes
4.2 Studies on Machining and Alternative Processes
5 Implications and Insights
5.1 The Importance of Machinability
5.2 Energy Evaluation
5.3 Applicability
6 Conclusions and Future Work
References
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Performance: Reporting Initiatives of Oil and Gas Companies in Central and Eastern Europe
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
2.1 CSR and Reporting Initiatives
2.2 Environmental Reporting Initiatives and Indexes
3 Environmental Performance of Oil and Gas Companies
4 Behaviour of Oil and Gas from Central and Eastern Europe
5 Conclusions
References
“Do No Significant Harm” Principle and Current Challenges for the EU Taxonomy Towards Energy Transition
1 Introduction
2 Energy Transition—A Challenge Generated by the Need to Protect the Environment
3 “Do No Significant Harm”, Nuclear Energy and Natural Gas
4 DNSH Assessment and European Funding for Energy Transition
5 Conclusions
Bibliography
Agroecology, Service-Learning, and Social Responsibility: A Case Study for Spain
1 Introduction
2 Theoretical Framework
2.1 The Importance of Agroecological Science Development
2.2 Innovation in Education: Service-Learning
2.3 Synergies Between Agroecological Science and the ApS
3 Case Study
4 Methodology
5 Results
6 Conclusions
References
Performance Appraisal Systems for the Evolution of Environmental Competencies: Achieving Goals and Rewards
1 Introduction
2 Conceptual Analysis
3 “Pro-environmental” Behavior
4 Objectives and Rewards
5 Performance Appraisal
6 Final Remarks
References
Index
