The oxford handbook of business and the natural environment

This Handbook discusses the main issues, research, and theory on business and the natural environment, and how they impact on different business functions and disciplines 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 qualityenvironmental management", "industrial ecology", "life cycle analysis", "environmental strategy", "environmental justice," and, most recently, "sustainabledevelopment." As a result, understanding the intersection of business activity and environmental protection has become increasingly complex, and there has emerged a focus in academic research on business decision-making, firm behavior, and the protection of the natural environment. This Handbook reviews the state of the field as it grows into a mature area of study within management science, its achievements, and its future avenues of research. It brings together original contributions in the fieldalong several lines of enquiry. The first six focus on disciplines as delineated in contemporary business schools: business strategy; policy and non-marketstrategies; organizational theory and behavior; operations and technology; marketing; and accounting and finance. The seventh section reviews emergentand associated perspectives, whilst a concluding section, written by long-standing leaders in the field, discusses the future outlook for research. INDICE: Part I: Introduction Introduction Part II: Business Strategy Competitive Strategy International Business and the Environment Environmental Entrepreneurship The Value of Managing Stakeholders Part III: Policy and Non-MarketStrategies Industry Self-Regulation Environmental Governance Business and Environmental Law Part IV: Organizational Theory and Behavior Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions Intergenerational Beneficence and the Success of Sustainability Initiatives in Organizational Contexts Bringing the Environment into Organizational Culture Institutional Approaches to Organizations and the Natural Environment Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy Social Movements, Business, and the Environment Part V: Operations and Technology Greener Supply Chain Management Closed-Loop Supply Chains Industrial Ecology: Business Management in a Material World Information Systems, Business, and the Natural Environment: Can Digital Business Transform Environmental Sustainability? Nigel P. Melville Part VI: Marketing From Green Marketing to Marketing for Environmental Sustainability Why not Choose Green Consumer Decision Making for Environmentally Friendly Products Using Market Segmentation Approaches to Understand the Green Consumer Part VII: Accounting and Finance Sustainability and Social Responsibility Reporting and the Emergence of the External Social Audits: The Struggle for Accountability? Rob Gray and Irene Herremans Environmental Management, Measurement and Accounting: Information for Decision and Control? Nola Buhr and Rob Gray Corporate Environmental Financial Reporting and Financial Markets Values-driven and Profit-seeking Dimensions of Environmentally Responsible Investing Environmental Risks and Financial Markets: A Two-Way Street Corporate Decision Making, Net Present Value, and the Environment Part VIII: Emergent and Associated Perspectives Corporate Social Responsibility Business, Society and the Environment The New Corporate Environmentalism and the Symbolic Management of Organizational Culture Critical Perspectives on Business and the Natural Environment Approaching Business and the Environment with Complexity TheoryPart IX: Future Perspectives Beyond the Brave New World: Business for Sustainability Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Distinguishing Between Weak and StrongSustainability Enterprise Sustainability 2.0: Aesthetics of Sustainability Tomorrow s C-Suite Agenda The Third-Generation Corporation Capitalism Critique: Systemic Limits On Business Harmony With Nature

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958445-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 720
• Fecha Publicación: 24/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés