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Greening the firm : the politics of corporate environmentalism / Aseem Prakash.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prakash, Aseem, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baxter International Inc.
- Eli Lilly and Company.
- Environmental policy--Case studies.
- Environmental policy.
- Industrial management--Environmental aspects--Case studies.
- Industrial management.
- International business enterprises--Environmental aspects--Case studies.
- International business enterprises.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 181 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Over the last two decades environmental issues have become important in public and business policy. This book asks why firms sometimes voluntarily adopt environmental policies which go beyond legal requirements. It employs a new-institutionalist perspective, and argues that existing explanations, especially from neoclassical economics, concentrate on external factors at the expense of internal dynamics. Prakash argues that 'beyond-compliance' policies are due to two types of intra-firm processes, which he describes as power- and leadership-based. His argument is supported by analysis of ten cases within two firms - Baxter International Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company - including interviews with managers, and access to meetings and documents. This book therefore examines the internal working of firms' environmental policy in a theoretically rigorous way, providing a significant contribution to the theory of the firm. It will be valuable for students of business and environmental studies, as well as political economy and public policy.
- Contents:
- 1. Greening the firm: an introduction
- Beyond-compliance: an overview
- "Unpacking" the firm
- Research design and methods
- Case selection
- Organization of the book
- 2. Environmental policymaking within firms
- New-institutionalism
- Nature of goods and services
- Notions of efficiency and capital budgeting
- Firms as composite actors
- 3. Baxter and Lilly: evolution of environmental programs
- Baxter: an overview
- Evolution of environmental programs
- Organizational structure
- Eli Lilly: an overview
- Baxter and Lilly: a comparison of environmental organization
- 4. Baxter and Lilly: case studies
- Underground storage tanks
- The Toxic Release Inventory and the 33/50 programs
- Responsible Care
- "Green products"
- Environmental audits
- ISO 14000 environmental management standards
- 5. Beyond-compliance: findings and conclusions
- Theoretical implications
- Policy implications
- Limitations and future research.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-174) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-11855-7
- 1-280-42094-4
- 0-511-31095-1
- 0-511-15218-3
- 0-511-49186-7
- 0-521-66487-X
- 0-511-04899-8
- 0-511-17317-2
- OCLC:
- 559747703
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