Corporate sustainability management in the energy sector : an empirical contingency approach / by Oliver Salzmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salzmann, Oliver.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Energy industries--Management.

Energy industries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2008.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Gabler Verlag / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and citizenship are terms that often evoke considerable scepticism and cynicism, particularly in civil society. Much needed sector-specific and comparative research, which could facilitate a more fact-oriented debate, is still missing from the literature. The present study aims to fill this gap by presenting data collected from two groups of managers, namely sustainability experts and non-sustainability experts, from two different industry sectors (integrated oil and gas vs. electric utilities) and several geographical regions. Oliver Salzmann provides a comprehensive view on corporate sustainability management in companies such as Shell and RWE and investigates the key social and environmental issues driving the energy sector. The author analyses the influence which stakeholder pressure exercises on energy companies and their efforts to become more responsive. Moreover, he develops a model for strategic, thus profit-oriented, corporate sustainability management.

Contents:

Theoretical foundation and concepts

Review of empirical literature

Conceptual rationale and research questions

Method

Sector characteristics

Data collected

Empirical evidence

Synopsis.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography.

ISBN:

3-8349-8132-X

OCLC:

828796470