ISBN : 9780199677436
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 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 field along several lines of enquiry. The first six focus on disciplines as delineated in contemporary business schools: business strategy; policy and non-market strategies; organizational theory and behavior; operations and technology; marketing; and accounting and finance. The seventh section reviews emergent and associated perspectives, whilst a concluding section, written by long-standing leaders in the field, discusses the future outlook for research.
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction
PART II: BUSINESS STRATEGY
2. Competitive Strategy
3. International Business and the Environment
4. Environmental Entrepreneurship
5. The Value of Managing Stakeholders
PART III: POLICY AND NON-MARKET STRATEGIES
6. Industry Self-Regulation
7. Environmental Governance
8. Business and Environmental Law
PART IV: ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND BEHAVIOR
9. Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions
10. Intergenerational Beneficence and the Success of Sustainability Initiatives in Organizational Contexts
11. Bringing the Environment into Organizational Culture
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 Management
16. 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? Nigel P. Melville
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? Rob Gray and Irene Herremans
23. Environmental Management, Measurement and Accounting: Information for Decision and Control? Nola Buhr and Rob Gray
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. Corporate Social Responsibility
39. 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
35. Enterprise Sustainability 2.0: Aesthetics of Sustainability
36. Tomorrow s C-Suite Agenda
37. The Third-Generation Corporation
38. Capitalism Critique: Systemic Limits On Business Harmony With Nature