Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, "corporate environmentalism" has emerged and been constantly redefined, from regulatory compliance to more recent management conceptions such as "pollution prevention", "total quality environmental management", "industrial ecology", "life cycle analysis", "environmental strategy", "environmental justice," and, most recently, "sustainable development." As a result, understanding the intersection of business.
Author(s): Pratima Bansal; Andrew J. Hoffman
Series: Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 717
City: Oxford
Cover
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Retrospective, Perspective, and Prospective: Introduction to The Oxford Handbook on Business and the Natural Environment
PART II: BUSINESS STRATEGY
2. Competitive Strategy and the Environment: A Field of Inquiry Emerges
3. International Business and the Environment
4. Environmental Entrepreneurship
5. The Value of Managing Stakeholders
PART III: POL ICY AND NON-MARKET STRATEGIES
6. Industry Self-Regulation and Environmental Protection
7. Environmental Governance. 8. Business and Environmental LawPART IV: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND THEORY
9. Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions
10. Intergenerational Beneficence and the Success of Environmental Sustainability Initiatives in Organizational Contexts
11. Organizational Culture and Environmental Action
12. Institutional Approaches to Organizations and the Natural Environment
13. Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy
14. Social Movements, Business, and the Environment
PART V: OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY. 15. Greener Supply Chain Management16. Closed-Loop Supply Chains
17. Industrial Ecology: Business Management in a Material World
18. Information Systems, Business, and the Natural Environment: Can Digital Business Transform Environmental Sustainability?
PART VI: MARKETING
19. From Green Marketing to Marketing for Environmental Sustainability
20. Why not Choose Green? Consumer Decision Making for Environmentally Friendly Products
21. Using Market Segmentation Approaches to Understand the Green Consumer
PART VII: ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE. 22. Sustainability and Social Responsibility Reporting and the Emergence of the External Social Audits: The Struggle for Accountability?23. Environmental Management, Measurement, and Accounting: Information for Decision and Control?
24. Corporate Environmental Financial Reporting and Financial Markets
25. Values-Driven and Profit-Seeking Dimensions of Environmentally Responsible Investing
26. Environmental Risks and Financial Markets: A Two-Way Street
27. Corporate Decision-Making, Net Present Value, and the Environment
PART VIII: EMERGENT AND ASSOCIATED PERSPECTIVES. 28. The Relevance of the Natural Environment for Corporate Social Responsibility Research29. Business, Society, and the Environment
30. The New Corporate Environmentalism and the Symbolic Management of Organizational Culture
31. Critical Perspectives on Business and the Natural Environment
32. Approaching Business and the Environment with Complexity Theory
PART IX : FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
33. Beyond the Brave New World: Business for Sustainability
34. Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Distinguishing Between Weak and Strong Sustainability.
