Business and sustainability : concepts, strategies and changes / edited by Gabriel Eweje, Martin Perry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eweje, Gabriel.

Perry, Martin, 1956-

Series:

Critical studies on corporate responsibility, governance and sustainability ; v. 3.

Critical studies on corporate responsibility, governance and sustainability, 2043-9059 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social responsibility of business.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley [England] : Emerald Group Pub. Ltd., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years research on business and sustainability, particular attention is being given to the motivations driving business managers to incorporate social and environmental strategies into their day-to-day business activities. Such research is critical to the evaluation of green management whether viewed from the perspective of academics, managers, policy makers or business students. This volume aims to assist readers to navigate the conceptual maze surrounding discussions of business and sustainability by offering critical reflection on the state of business action for environmental sustainability and providing evidence about what is actually taking place in real localities and businesses. The chapters in the volume are focusing on sustainability issues that are critical, topical, and needed at this stage of the discussion. The volume makes three main contributions. First, it offers a critical review of business engagement with sustainability from four perspectives: sustainability as a political project; sustainability as a response to environmental crisis, sustainability as business opportunity and sustainability as stakeholder management. Second, the volume examines actual experience in terms of the steps being taken by business and how these have affected business performance. Third, the volume provides case studies of individual organizations or institutions that reveal tensions and challenges to progressing sustainable business strategies and that offer insight into the prospects for changing the relationship of business to the environment.

Contents:

Introduction / Gabriel Eweje, Martin Perry

ch. 1. Conceptualizing sustainability : the business opportunity / Dexter Dunphy

ch. 2. Integral response-abilities for sustainable organizing and managing / Wendelin M. Küpers

ch. 3. Human factors and ergonomics for business sustainability / Craig Brown, Stephen Legg

ch. 4. Beyond competition : an exploration of the ethics and aesthetics of partnership / Ralph Bathurst, Margot Edwards

ch. 5. The longitudinal evolution of environmental 'ecopreneurs' from the 1990s : mergers and acquisitions and the waste management industry / Diane Holt

ch. 6. Sustainable business and local economic development / Martin Perry, Martina Battisti

ch. 7. Managerial perceptions of sustainability / Gabriel Eweje

ch. 8. Communicating sustainability, but producing pollution : the case of the BP oil spill / Margaret Brunton

ch. 9. The sustainability debate and accounting / David Russell

ch. 10. Sustainability as stakeholder management / Minyu Wu

ch. 11. Sustainability : driving behavioural change : is it as easy as we believe? / Michael Field, Joanne Tunna

ch. 12. Consumer perception of French retailers' commitment to sustainable development / Valérie Charrière, Sophie Morin-Delerm

ch. 13. Sustainable management education : a graduate skills approach / Sharon Ayson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786613406439

9781283406437

1283406438

9781780524399

1780524390

OCLC:

772505533