Climate change, capitalism, and corporations : processes of creative self-destruction / Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Christopher, 1963- author.

Nyberg, Daniel, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental economics.

Corporations--Environmental aspects.

Corporations.

Industrial management--Environmental aspects.

Industrial management.

Climatic changes--Economic aspects.

Climatic changes.

Capitalism--Environmental aspects.

Capitalism.

Social responsibility of business.

Physical Description:

xiii, 254 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity; a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change, and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The book's principal message is that despite the need for dramatic economic and political change, corporate capitalism continues to rely upon the maintenance of 'business as usual'. The authors explore the different processes through which corporations engage with climate change. Key discussion points include climate change as business risk; corporate climate politics; the role of justification and compromise; and managerial identity and emotional reactions to climate change. Written for researchers and graduate students, this book moves beyond descriptive and normative approaches to provide a sociologically and critically informed theory of corporate responses to climate change"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Foreword Clive Hamilton; Acknowledgements; 1. Climate change and corporate capitalism; 2. Creative self-destruction and the incorporation of critique; 3. Climate change and the corporate construction of risk; 4. Corporate political activity and climate coalitions; 5. Justification, compromise and corruption; 6. Climate change, managerial identity and narrating the self; 7. Emotions, corporate environmentalism and climate change; 8. Political myths and pathways forward; 9. Imagining alternatives; Appendix; References; Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107078222

1107078229

9781107435131

1107435137

OCLC:

910802455

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