[PDF] Greening The Corporation eBook

Author : Peter Thayer Robbins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136534954

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Corporate responses to environmental challenges are often held directly or indirectly responsible for significant worldwide environmental destruction. Corporations are beginning to respond to environmental and social concerns and are taking these into account. This process, known as the greening of the corporation is fraught with contradictions since the foremost aim of corporations is to earn profits. Robbins analyses the approaches of four major international companies: ARCO Chemical; Ben & Jerry's; Shell; and The Body Shop.

Author : Peter Thayer Robbins
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1849776032

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Corporate responses to environmental challenges are often held directly or indirectly responsible for significant worldwide environmental destruction. Corporations are beginning to respond to environmental and social concerns and are taking these into account. This process, known as the greening of the corporation is fraught with contradictions since the foremost aim of corporations is to earn profits. Robbins analyses the approaches of four major international companies: ARCO Chemical; Ben & Jerry's; Shell; and The Body Shop.

Author : Adam Werbach
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 142217770X

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Leave your quaint notions of corporate social responsibilty and environmentalism behind. Werbach is starting a whole new dialogue around sustainability of enterprise and life as we know it in organisations and individuals.

Author : E. Bruce Harrison
Publisher : Publishingworks
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781933002705

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Corporate executives face new demands as energy and environmental issues combine to create the Corporate Greening 2.0 era. Politicians, social activists, investors, and customers expect companies to move beyond "going green" to deal with global warming and fuel factors.

Author : Paul Shrivastava
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN :

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The author presents a detailed and informative picture of critical environmentally-related issues facing business today. Shrivastava leads readers through the compelling argument that taking environmental responsiblity is good for profits. He'll show why greening is necessary, how it benefits companies, and how to get started.

Author : Daniel C. Esty
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470393742

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From the Publishers Weekly review: "Two experts from Yale tackle the business wake-up-call du jour-environmental responsibility-from every angle in this thorough, earnest guidebook: pragmatically, passionately, financially and historically. Though "no company the authors know of is on a truly long-term sustainable course," Esty and Winston label the forward-thinking, green-friendly (or at least green-acquainted) companies WaveMakers and set out to assess honestly their path toward environmental responsibility, and its impact on a company's bottom line, customers, suppliers and reputation. Following the evolution of business attitudes toward environmental concerns, Esty and Winston offer a series of fascinating plays by corporations such as Wal-Mart, GE and Chiquita (Banana), the bad guys who made good, and the good guys-watchdogs and industry associations, mostly-working behind the scenes. A vast number of topics huddle beneath the umbrella of threats to the earth, and many get a thorough analysis here: from global warming to electronic waste "take-back" legislation to subsidizing sustainable seafood. For the responsible business leader, this volume provides plenty of (organic) food for thought. "

Author : Grant Ledgerwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351283472

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On a world scale, the implicit deal between corporation and community is undergoing a revolution in the period 1990–2000. For the first time, corporate boardrooms are having to confront the environmental challenge not as a peripheral issue around "public relations", but as a core issue of credibility with its customers. As trust in big business has declined, consumer willingness to alter buying behaviour to register disapproval has accelerated. As a result, boardrooms in the largest companies are having to redraw their strategic procedures regarding the environment. This book aims to advance the general understanding of corporate environmental governance as an issue capable of separate and detailed analysis. It aims to provide not an overview, but a series of test cores into the generally unexamined issues surrounding the changing ethos of corporate action and environmental investment. To date, the "business and environment" strategic conversation has reached only a minute proportion of a global audience. Over the next twenty years, this dialogue will transform business into the 21st century. Moreover, it will become internalised into a way of working within Corporate Culture. Greening the Boardroom explores through case studies and surveys some of the changes in this process, in Europe as well as in Asia and North America. Suitable for readers in general management, business, government and academia, this book is an important contribution to the corporate environmental debate by the author of The Environmental Audit and Business Strategy: A Total Quality Approach.

Author : Yossi Sheffi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262345765

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An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability. The demands and stresses on companies only grow as executives face a multitude of competing business goals. Their stakeholders are interested in corporate profits, jobs, business growth, and environmental sustainability. In this book, business strategy expert Yossi Sheffi offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes—from Coca Cola and Siemens to Dr. Bronner's Magical Soaps and Patagonia—navigate these competing goals. Drawing on extensive interviews with more than 250 executives, Sheffi examines the challenges, solutions, and implications of balancing traditional business goals with sustainability. Sheffi, author of the widely read The Resilient Enterprise, argues that business executives' personal opinions on environmental sustainability are irrelevant. The business merits of environmental sustainability are based on the fact that even the most ardent climate change skeptics in the C-suite face natural resource costs, public relations problems, regulatory burdens, and a green consumer segment. Sheffi presents three basic business rationales for corporate sustainability efforts: cutting costs, reducing risk, and achieving growth. For companies, sustainability is not a simple case of “profits versus planet” but is instead a more subtle issue of (some) people versus (other) people—those looking for jobs and inexpensive goods versus others who seek a pristine environment. This book aims to help companies satisfy these conflicting motivations for both economic growth and environmental sustainability.

Author : Stephen Fineman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351623605

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The Business of Greening, first published in 2000, debates the relationship between business and greening, and the future form this relationship could take. The book gives voice to industrial actors - employees, employers, managers, technical specialists, regulators - in the context of their organizations, within industrial sectors or as part of wider institution regimes. The business of greening is taken as socially constructed, shaped through tensions and competing interests. It produces outcomes that are sometimes unexpected, sometimes hopeful. These outcomes are explored by examining a range of workers, including estate agents, bankers, bakers, printers, regulators, in small and large corporations. Contributors write from a wide range of different social sciences including sociology, geography, organizational science and psychology. This title will be of particular interest to students and researchers of environmental and business studies, and to those who shape environmental policy in government and industry.